CINCINNATI — Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow said his home being broken into during Monday Night Football has made him feel like his privacy has been "violated in more ways than one."
The QB opened his press conference Wednesday momentarily addressing the break-in before answering questions about Monday's road game against the Cowboys.
Burrow said there's already more out there than he would've like to share on the matter.
"We live a public life, and one of my least favorite parts of that is the lack of privacy," Burrow said.
Burrow followed that by acknowledging that lack of privacy comes with the territory of being an NFL quarterback.
"I understand that it's the life we choose," he said. "Doesn't make it any easier to deal with."
While he was securing the Bengals 27-20 victory over the Cowboys during MNF, someone broke into his Anderson Township home, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said.
The sheriff's office said someone broke into Burrow's home a little after 8 p.m. Monday night. Officials did not say whether anyone was arrested.
Three different people called 911 dispatch to report the alleged burglary Monday evening; according to those 911 calls, a woman employed by Burrow first discovered the break-in. She, her mother and a third woman from New York City all spoke to Hamilton County dispatchers about it.
Listen to the 911 calls:
"It's just, like, completely messed up," the woman at the home told dispatchers about a bedroom in the house.
According to an incident report filled out by Hamilton County deputies, the woman arrived at the home and noticed the window to a bedroom had been shattered; inside, the bedroom was "ransacked," deputies wrote.
Because Burrow was in Dallas, he couldn't provide deputies with details on anything that may have been stolen, the report says.
It also says the woman at the house "is employed by Mr. Burrow and gave a non-detailed itemization of what items were possibly missing."
Dispatch said a security officer had already been assigned to work a shift outside Burrow's home that evening, and sent that officer up to the house to speak with the 911 caller.
In November, the NFL issued a security alert to team security directors and the players' union about "organized and skilled criminals" targeting homes belonging to professional athletes, according to NFL.com.
Break-ins were also reported at homes belonging to Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, NFL.com reported.
It's unclear whether those break-ins are connected to the burglary at Burrow's home at this point.
