{"id":543550,"date":"2026-03-25T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543550\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:10:10","slug":"joe-flacco-returning-to-bengals-on-one-year-6-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543550\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Flacco returning to Bengals on one-year, $6 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Flacco will be back for Season 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old has signed a one-year, $6 million deal that could be as high as $9 million with incentives with the Bengals, ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Flacco was traded to the Bengals<\/a> in the middle of the 2025 season and appeared in nine games for Cincinnati, completing 158 passes for 1,664 yards and 13 touchdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He started six games for the Bengals after the trade from Cleveland, where he began 2025 before eventually being benched in favor of rookie Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n

\"CincinnatiCincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco (16) looks to pass during the second half of the game against the Arizona Cardinals and the Cincinnati Bengals on December 28, 2025, at Paycor Stadium. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Flacco went to the Pro Bowl as a roster replacement, making him one of three Bengals players \u2014 along with Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins \u2014 to head to Vegas for the festivities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The QB helped the Bengals offense put up 33, 38 and 42 points during a three-game stretch from Oct.18- Nov. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flacco left the door open for a possible return after the season had ended during a conversation with the Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve thought about it [returning] but not in any significant way because it\u2019s tough to kind of really see what\u2019s going to happen because you\u2019ve kind of got to sit back and wait and see to a certain extent,\u201d Flacco said. \u201cI mean, I want to play, but I also think that there\u2019s probably certain situations that are good for me and certain situations that maybe aren\u2019t. I\u2019ve got to sit down and maybe think that through a little bit.<\/p>\n

\"JoeJoe Flacco of the Cincinnati Bengals participates during a Pro Bowl team practice during the NFL Pro Bowl Games at Moscone Center South on February 2, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI could see a world where I come back here [to Cincinnati]. Who knows what that is? But yeah, listen, I love it here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bengals are the sixth team that Flacco has played for during his career, which has included stops with the Ravens, Broncos, Jets, Browns and Colts.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Flacco will be back for Season 19.\u00a0 The 41-year-old has signed a one-year, $6 million deal that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1822,1800,349,116384,229271,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-543550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-joe-flacco","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-free-agency","12":"tag-nfl-free-agency-2026","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}