{"id":717297,"date":"2026-01-30T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717297\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:53:16","slug":"joe-flacco-named-to-2026-pro-bowl-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717297\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Flacco Named to 2026 Pro Bowl Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengals QB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/joe-flacco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Flacco<\/a> has been added to the AFC roster for the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/pro-bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Pro Bowl Games<\/a>. This marks the first career Pro Bowl selection for Flacco.<\/p>\n<p>An 18th-year veteran in 2025, Flacco played in 13 total games with 10 starts, completing 251 of 416 passes for 2479 yards and 15 TDs with 10 INTs. He started the first four games of the season for Cleveland, then was acquired by Cincinnati in a trade on Oct. 7 and started six contests for the Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>From his first Bengals start in Week 6 through his final start in Week 12, Flacco ranked second in the NFL in completions (154), tied for third in TD passes (13) and fifth in passing yards (1636). That stretch included a career-high 470 passing yards in Week 9 vs. Chicago, and a 342-yard, three-TD performance in the team&#8217;s Week 7 win over Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco becomes the seventh QB in Bengals history to be named a Pro Bowler. He joins WRs <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/ja-marr-chase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ja\u2019Marr Chase<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/tee-higgins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tee Higgins<\/a> as Cincinnati&#8217;s Pro Bowl selections for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/how-to-watch-2026-pro-bowl-games-essential-information\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 2026 Pro Bowl Games take place<\/a> on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., and will be televised live on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengals QB Joe Flacco has been added to the AFC roster for the 2026 Pro Bowl Games. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[204,86936,228,443,227,256,2296,7,562,81,898,6,4435,4912,88592],"class_list":{"0":"post-717297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2026-pro-bowl","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-centerpiece","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-joe-flacco","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latest-stories","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-press-release","21":"tag-pro-bowl","22":"tag-pro-bowl-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115985803503552172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717297","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=717297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}