CINCINNATI — The Bengals added to the quarterback room on Saturday by inking a one-year deal for this coming season.
He’s appeared in 50 profession regular-season NFL video games with 11 begins for the Buccaneers, Cleveland, Cincinnati,Washington, the N.Y. Jets, Baltimore, and San Francisco. The wily vet’s thrown for two,669 yards and 14 TDs with 18 INTs. He additionally has 94 speeding makes an attempt for 481 yards and two TDs.
He suited up for the Bengals in 2013 for 2 video games and frolicked with them once more in 2015 however didn’t seem in any video games. Jake Browning signed with Tampa bay earlier this week, so Cincinnati was down two quarterbacks earlier than including Johnson.
New Backup Option
Johnson must be a pleasant choice to again up Joe Burrow in the intervening time throughout their offseason program whereas they await the standing of Joe Flacco in free company.
Bengals offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher went in-depth on what he is searching for behind Joe Burrow.
“When you’re looking for a backup quarterback, which is what we’re looking for, you want a great player. The same traits that make a starting quarterback a good player are going to be the traits that make a backup quarterback a good player. But the backup quarterback is a unique job, and an understanding of what that is is important,” Pitcher mentioned on the 2026 NFL Combine. “Because you have to have a guy that’s very intrinsically motivated, somebody that can just go to work and do the work day in and day out because they know it’s the right thing to do, and because they can get themselves to a place mentally where ‘I might have to play at any given moment, but I also may not play all year.’ And that’s different than any other position in the building.
“Because everyone else normally has a way, form, or type to have an effect on the sport. Obviously, a backup quarterback goes to play in observe, so they are going to have an effect on the workforce that approach. So there is a mentality that goes with that. There’s a maturity that goes with that. And then you definitely steadiness that towards a man who might need traits that you simply see having the ability to develop and develop, and possibly sooner or later change into a beginning quarterback on this league. Do you go in free company to strive to obtain that objective? Do you go within the draft? Well, you have a look at all of it. You simply determine what is going on to be greatest for the workforce primarily based on what sort of assets you need to allocate, and also you simply strive to discover someone who matches.”
Cincinnati has now signed 4 exterior free brokers this week.
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