{"id":755856,"date":"2026-02-16T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755856\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:50:13","slug":"bengals-news-2-16-john-franklin-myers-is-just-what-cincinnati-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755856\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals News (2\/16): John Franklin-Myers is just what Cincinnati needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bengals\u2019 most important free-agency target could be Broncos standout<\/a>
\u201cAt 6\u20194\u201d, 288 pounds, John Franklin-Myers has lined up in different spots across defensive lines, on the interior and on the end. In a three-down role, he\u2019s exactly what Cincinnati needs up front to help out the pass rush and run defense. Over the last two seasons with the Denver Broncos, the 29-year-old has recorded 65 tackles, 14.5 sacks, 44 pressures, and 14 tackles for loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bengals Assistant Jordan Salkin Moves Into A Familiar Room<\/a>
After serving in his second season with the club as assistant wide receivers coach, Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins became the Bengals\u2019 first receiver tandem to go to the Pro Bowl in 18 years, and on Friday, Salkin became part of head coach Zac Taylor\u2019s minor staff shuffle that brought him back home to the quarterbacks room.<\/p>\n

Joe Flacco Lays Out Timeline Options To Decide On Next NFL Team<\/a>
The Bengals\u2019 free agent quarterback sat down with Ross Tucker last week and ran down his two paths to signing with a team this offseason. Flacco sounds like he\u2019s willing to wait things out in free agency for a starting opportunity, as opposed to signing with Cincinnati right away to back up Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n

Ja\u2019Marr Chase on Bengals\u2019 offseason expectations: \u2018Everybody pretty much knows what we need\u2019<\/a>
\u201cI mean, everybody pretty much knows what we need.\u201d he told Sports Illustrated\u2019s Russell Heltman. \u201cI\u2019ve said it out in the media. All I gotta do is sit back and watch. I can\u2019t control that, so all I gotta do is control my production. I mean, at the end of the day, I\u2019m just stating my opinion on what I think we need. So, you know, I sit back, let the organization do what they do, and I just gotta let my play do the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bengals Could Benefit If Ravens Pro Bowler Leaves AFC North in Free Agency<\/a>
\u201cThe Ravens have been unable to reach a contract extension with center Tyler Linderbaum, a former first-round pick who is poised to cash in big when free agency opens in March,\u201d Jason La Canfora of Sportsboom.com is reporting. \u201cLinderbaum [is] expected to land one of the more lucrative deals on the NFL open market. Baltimore has been reticent to spend top dollar on a center for decades, and league sources indicated there have been some underlying medical concerns with Linderbaum, who has been a Pro Bowl player for them but is also undersized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengals\u2019 most important free-agency target could be Broncos standout\u201cAt 6\u20194\u201d, 288 pounds, John Franklin-Myers has lined up in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,1561,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-755856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116080163689080452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755856","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=755856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}