{"id":431046,"date":"2025-10-08T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/431046\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:20:10","slug":"bengals-discussed-trading-for-eagles-backup-qb-before-acquiring-joe-flacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/431046\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals discussed trading for Eagles backup QB before acquiring Joe Flacco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before pulling off a trade for Cleveland Browns<\/a> quarterback Joe Flacco on Tuesday, the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> reportedly explored deals with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> and Seattle Seahawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN\u2019s Dan Graziano<\/a>, the Bengals had \u201cchatter\u201d about pursuing QBs Sam Howell and Drew Lock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m told that neither of the Giants<\/a> veterans, Russell Wilson or Jameis Winston, were ever real possibilities, nor was Atlanta\u2019s Kirk Cousins. There was some chatter about Drew Lock in Seattle, Sam Howell in Philadelphia, guys like that. But teams aren\u2019t eager to trade from their QB depth,\u201c wrote Graziano.<\/p>\n

Howell and Lock are both young quarterbacks who could have contributed immediately and served as long-term backups to Joe Burrow. However, their upside likely drove up the asking price.<\/p>\n

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The Eagles acquired Howell from the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in August to be their third quarterback, and Howie Roseman is never quick to surrender depth at that position. Howell served as Jalen Hurts’ backup in Week 1 when Tanner McKee was dealing with a thumb injury.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Eagles Wire: Bengals discussed trading for Eagles backup QB before acquiring Flacco<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before pulling off a trade for Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco on Tuesday, the Cincinnati Bengals reportedly explored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[256,54,4153,2868,25,7,1641,492,1577,562,259,6,242,109,2476,1257,2336,261,1840,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-431046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-cleveland-browns","10":"tag-dan-graziano","11":"tag-drew-lock","12":"tag-eagles","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-howie-roseman","15":"tag-jalen-hurts","16":"tag-joe-burrow","17":"tag-joe-flacco","18":"tag-minnesota-vikings","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","22":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","23":"tag-quarterback","24":"tag-sam-howell","25":"tag-seattle-seahawks","26":"tag-tanner-mckee","27":"tag-the-eagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115340877978110305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431046","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=431046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}