{"id":251054,"date":"2025-07-31T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/251054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:13:11","slug":"bengals-expected-to-sign-tight-end-noah-fant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/251054\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals expected to sign tight end Noah Fant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Tight end Noah Fant is expected to sign with the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>The team has not announced the signing, but coach Zac Taylor said before Thursday&#8217;s practice \u201cwe potentially have a good signing there&#8221; when asked about reports of a deal. ESPN reported the sides were working on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got a player that\u2019s really a plus player in both the run and the pass. At the point of attack blocking, back side of blocking. Protection, can help you. Also really explosive as a receiver,&#8221; Taylor said about Fant. &#8220;Great size, great explosiveness, really good hands. Tough to bring down. We really feel good about where our tight end room will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fant visited the Bengals last week after being <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/seahawks-fant-released-tight-end-ce33dab4667c288d961be49875e86af0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released by the Seattle Seahawks on July 20;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">released by the Seattle Seahawks on July 20<\/a>. He had 48 receptions for 500 yards and a touchdown in 14 games last season. Fant also visited New Orleans and Miami after his trip to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Fant will give quarterback Joe Burrow a solid tight end duo. Mike Gesicki is expected to the starter.<\/p>\n<p>Fant will be going into his seventh season. He was a first-round pick by the Denver Broncos in 2019 and spent three seasons there before going to Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Tight end Noah Fant is expected to sign with the Cincinnati Bengals. The team has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,258,7,1577,216,18721,896,6,2862,261,2729],"class_list":{"0":"post-251054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-joe-burrow","15":"tag-miami","16":"tag-mike-gesicki","17":"tag-new-orleans","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-noah-fant","20":"tag-seattle-seahawks","21":"tag-zac-taylor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114948735271376861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}