{"id":721019,"date":"2026-02-01T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:18:26","slug":"flacco-earns-first-pro-bowl-nod-after-filling-in-at-qb-for-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721019\/","title":{"rendered":"Flacco earns first Pro Bowl nod after filling in at QB for Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco has been added to the AFC roster for the 2026 Pro Bowl Games, earning the first Pro Bowl selection of his 18-year NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco appeared in 13 games with 10 starts during the 2025 season, completing 251 of 416 passes for 2,479 yards, 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He opened the season with Cleveland, starting the first four games, before being traded to Cincinnati on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco started six games for the Bengals and was among the league\u2019s most productive quarterbacks during that stretch. From Weeks 6 through 12, he ranked second in the NFL in completions, tied for third in touchdown passes and fifth in passing yards.<\/p>\n<p>His season included a career-high 470 passing yards against Chicago in Week 9 and a 342-yard, three-touchdown performance against Pittsburgh in Week 7.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco becomes the seventh quarterback in franchise history to earn Pro Bowl honors. He joins wide receivers Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins as Cincinnati\u2019s Pro Bowl selections for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Pro Bowl Games will be held Feb. 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and will air live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Information courtesy Cincinnati Bengals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco has been added to the AFC roster for the 2026 Pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-721019","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-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115994395067553587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721019","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=721019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}