{"id":878351,"date":"2026-04-30T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/878351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:30:20","slug":"former-bengals-joe-bachie-jay-tufele-sign-with-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/878351\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bengals Joe Bachie, Jay Tufele sign with Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Lions<\/a> announced<\/a> they signed former Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> linebacker Joe Bachie<\/a> and defensive lineman Jay Tufele<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tufele<\/a> played in 30 games over three seasons for the Bengals from 2022 to 2024. He played in 12 games in 2025 for the New York Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bachie<\/a> played in 47 games over four seasons for Cincinnati from 2021 to 2024. In 2025, he played in five games for the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, and 10 games for the Tennessee Titans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Bengals defensive tackle DJ Reader, who played for the Lions the past two seasons, reportedly is expected to sign<\/a> with the New York Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Former Bengal Joe Bachie played part of the 2025 season for the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Former Bengals Joe Bachie, Jay Tufele sign with Lions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions announced they signed former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Joe Bachie and defensive lineman Jay Tufele. Tufele…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,3126,2793,113,7,30741,392,6738,10790,56,255,6,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-878351","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-defensive-lineman","13":"tag-defensive-tackle","14":"tag-detroit-lions","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-four-seasons","17":"tag-indianapolis-colts","18":"tag-jay-tufele","19":"tag-joe-bachie","20":"tag-new-york-giants","21":"tag-new-york-jets","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116491546697294453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878351","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=878351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}