{"id":824382,"date":"2026-03-21T03:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/824382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:10:18","slug":"bengals-hold-top-30-visit-with-rutgers-qb-athan-kaliakmanis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/824382\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals hold top-30 visit with Rutgers QB Athan Kaliakmanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Cincinnati Bengals are looking for young quarterbacks to develop under Joe Burrow and seem to have targeted an intriguing prospect for a possibility. Multiple reports have the team set to conduct a top-30 visit with Rutgers quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The former Scarlet Knights signal-caller had 20 touchdowns against just seven interceptions last season, while completing 62.2% of his passes for 3,1224 yards as a senior. Kaliakmanis spent his first two collegiate seasons with Minnesota before transferring to Rutgers. He has a collegiate career passer rating of 129.1.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After a solid 2025 campaign, Kaliakmanis has drawn interest from other teams in the pre-draft process, including Washington and the Raiders. The Eagles, Bears, and Giants have also been linked to him in pre-draft chatter as well. Projections have him being either a Day 3 pick or a priority undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kaliakmanis had an outstanding first three games of the 2025 season, throwing seven touchdowns and zero interceptions. He was also a threat with his legs, posting four rushing touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cincinnati has been attempting to identify a long-term backup solution behind Burrow for some time. They have preferred veteran options under Zac Taylor, including Brandon Allen, Jake Browning, and Joe Flacco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While Browning signed with Tampa Bay during free agency, the Bengals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/cincinnati-bengals-rumors\/188006\/joe-flacco-josh-johnson-signing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:remain hopeful they can bring back;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;remain hopeful they can bring back&quot;}\" class=\"link \">remain hopeful they can bring back<\/a> Flacco this offseason. However, the 41-year-old is testing the waters for a potential starting gig before recommitting to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As they wait for the Flacco decision, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/cincinnati-bengals-free-agency\/187998\/josh-johnson-qb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:went and signed veteran;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;went and signed veteran&quot;}\" class=\"link \">went and signed veteran<\/a> Josh Johnson over the weekend. Johnson was with the Bengals back in 2013 as the reserve to Andy Dalton, while also being a part of the 2015 preseason squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s possible the Bengals retain Johnson or Flacco (should he end up re-signing with the team) during the summer and into the regular season with a developmental guy like Kaliakmanis waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals are looking for young quarterbacks to develop under Joe Burrow and seem to have targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[10122,48400,228,8507,227,256,2296,7,19907,1577,562,18855,233,6,2743,4726,87350],"class_list":["post-824382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-andy-dalton","tag-athan-kaliakmanis","tag-bengals","tag-brandon-allen","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-jake-browning","tag-joe-burrow","tag-joe-flacco","tag-josh-johnson","tag-minnesota","tag-nfl","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","tag-vincent-carchietta-imagn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116264974937611502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824382","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=824382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}