In between meetings and film work prepping for the Senior Bowl, Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan and his quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt can't help but smile when the topic is LSU quarterback Joe Burrow. They may not know yet if he's going to join them next week in some fashion when they coach the South in the Jan. 25 game (2:30 p.m.-NFL Network) in Mobile, Ala. But they do know they'll have no problem putting him in their offense that has several elements of what Burrow ran to virtual reality perfection in Baton Rouge. 

On Wednesday morning the Pro Football Hall of Fame announces its list of 15 senior inductees (ten players, two coaches, three contributors) and Bengaldom already knows its two favorite sons won't be anointed by the shrine just down the road in Canton, Ohio that has proven to be light years away for Bengals of any era. But the absence of Ken Anderson and Ken Riley stunned some voters and they still have support on future ballots. 

Carlos Dunlap has been selected to represent the Bengals in the award's inaugural year. The Surface "Anything But Ordinary" Player of the Year will be announced alongside the League's most prestigious awards.

No one has coached in more Senior Bowls or won more of them than Paul Brown. When his Cincinnati Bengals, one of the two NFL teams he founded, coach in the 70th anniversary of the college all-star classic next week they'll be doing it for the same reasons he coached eight straight. And from the great Harry Agganis that Brown coached to a Senior Bowl MVP to reigning Heisman Joe Burrow, quarterbacks have always been under the Mobile microscope.