{"id":195806,"date":"2025-10-07T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195806\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:39:07","slug":"browns-trade-joe-flacco-to-qb-needy-bengals-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195806\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns trade Joe Flacco to QB-needy Bengals, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"75b8623b-8926-b411-0476-3d3602b78523\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> turned to their division rivals for a much-needed solution at quarterback, acquiring <a data-player-guid=\"cfd567df-191e-29cf-0dc6-0bcf84085135\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/11252\/joe-flacco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Flacco<\/a> in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"539babc5-e5fb-753b-8ae1-c15032a91ef4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals also will receive a sixth-round draft pick while the Browns landed a fifth-round pick in the trade, sources told Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco joins Cincinnati two days after Bengals coach Zac Taylor was non-committal on <a data-player-guid=\"9b5cc348-8b21-7070-a660-a5a7e059b1a5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3886812\/jake-browning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Browning<\/a>&#8216;s status as the starting quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals have lost all three games since <a data-player-guid=\"e6957db5-5b2e-a82d-c788-d889115d9772\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3915511\/joe-burrow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Burrow<\/a> suffered a toe injury in Week 2, and Browning has struggled under center, throwing eight interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals turned to their division rivals for a much-needed solution at quarterback, acquiring Joe Flacco in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-195806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}