Four quarterbacks will be featured on the third season of the Netflix series Quarterback.
The streaming service announced on Wednesday that Cam Ward, Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, and Joe Flacco will be featured on this edition of the show. The show will chronicle the quarterbacks’ experiences during the 2025 season and will premiere on July 14.
Each quarterback’s storyline should have some interesting moments. Ward went through his rookie season with the Titans after being selected with the first pick of the draft while Daniels’s much-anticipated second season with the Commanders was wiped out by injuries. Mayfield thrived early in the year, but he and the Buccaneers struggled later in a year that ended without a playoff berth. Flacco opened the season as the starter for the Browns, but was traded to the Bengals to fill in for the injured Joe Burrow.
Burrow Kirk Cousins, Jared Goff, Patrick Mahomes, and Marcus Mariota were featured on the first two seasons of the show.
The Bengals announced the signing of another draft pick on Wednesday afternoon.
Third-round pick Tacario Davis has signed his four-year rookie deal with the club. The cornerback is the sixth of the team’s seven selections to sign his first NFL deal.
Second-round defensive end Cashius Howell is the only unsigned member of the draft class. The five other players in the group signed with the team last weekend.
Davis spent three seasons at Arizona before transferring to Washington for his final year in college. He had 95 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 25 passes defensed, three interceptions and one fumble recovery over 37 total collegiate games.
All of the international matchups for the 2026 NFL season were announced on Wednesday morning.
We already knew the first two games on the schedule. The 49ers and Rams will meet in the NFL’s first-ever game in Melbourne, Australia in Week 1 while the Ravens and Cowboys will head to Brazil to play a game in Rio in Week 3.
There will be three straight weeks of games in London kicking off the next week. The Colts will face the Commanders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in Week 4 and the Eagles and Jaguars will square off in the same place the next week. The Jaguars will stay in London to take on the Texans at Wembley Stadium in Week 6.
From there, it will be on to Paris for the first time in league history. The Steelers will battle the Saints at Stade de France in Week 7.
The Bengals-Falcons matchup in Madrid in Week 9 was announced earlier this week and it will be followed by a Patriots-Lions clash at Allianz Arena in Munich the next weekend. The NFL’s return to Mexico City will come in Week 11 when the Vikings and the 49ers square off on Sunday Night Football.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked about his desire to see the league play international games each week and the NFL is moving closer to that goal in 2026.
While the Bengals were struggling to win games in 2025, wide receiver Andrei Iosivas was struggling to deal with a barrage of online invective.
Iosivas was credited with five dropped passes during the regular season and he said on Tuesday that they triggered a lot of vitriol on his social media accounts. Iosivas said that the messages made him “angry” and that he had a difficult time compartmentalizing those emotions.
“I feel like last year I was in my head a little bit,” Iosivas said, via Ben Baby of ESPN.com. “I had those drops in those games and people were telling me to kill myself and all that kind of stuff. I never had that kind of stuff happen to me before. So it got in my head a little bit when people — you know, when your DMs are flooded with people telling you to kill yourself.”
Iosivas finished the year with 33 catches for 435 yards and two touchdowns. He explained how he has shifted his mindset to prepare for his fourth season in Cincinnati.
“Just not letting outside noise get to me and letting circumstances get to me,” Iosivas said. “I know I’m a great player so [I’m] not letting people’s opinions or things in the building kind of just irritate me.”
Iosivas has been the team’s third wideout with Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins the last two seasons. The only significant addition to the Bengals’ receiving corps was fourth-rounder Colbie Young, so Iosivas should get plenty of chances to put a difficult 2025 behind him.
When Bengals head coach Zac Taylor was asked about the team playing an international game at a Tuesday press conference, he said he was “all for it” and he may have had some advance notice of what was coming a few hours later.
The NFL announced on Tuesday afternoon that the Bengals will be traveling to Madrid to face the Falcons on Sunday, November 8 in Week 9 of the regular season. The game will be played at Real Madrid’s Bernabeu Stadium and it will be telecast on NFL Network.
This will be the third time that the Bengals have played a game outside the United States. They also played games in London in 2016 and 2019.
The full international slate for 2026 is set to be announced on Wednesday morning and the entire scheduled will be revealed on Thursday night.
The Bengals know they will be playing in Baltimore at some point during the 2026 season, but the timing of that game will be of some interest.
When the schedule is released on Thursday, head coach Zac Taylor and the rest of the Bengals will learn whether their annual road game against the Ravens will be played in primetime for the fifth year in a row. Taylor was asked if he’d be surprised to see things go that way during a press conference on Tuesday.
“I think I would be surprised, but prepared for it, if that’s what they choose to do to us for the fifth straight year,” Taylor said.
The Bengals lost their first three night games in Baltimore, but they snapped that streak with a win over the Ravens on Thanksgiving in 2025. This year’s matchup will look different from that one in one significant way as Jesse Minter is now coaching the Ravens. We’ll find out if the setting is also different in a couple of days.
The Bengals claimed linebacker Swayze Bozeman off waivers from the Giants, the team announced Friday.
The Bengals also signed undrafted free agent safety Isaiah Nwokobia.
Bozeman is a second-year player out of the University of Southern Mississippi. He entered the league as a college free agent signee of the Chiefs in 2024.
Bozeman has played nine career games for the Chiefs (2024) and Giants (2025), totaling five defensive tackles along with four special teams stops.
Nwokobia is a rookie out of SMU.
The Bengals have signed multiple draft picks and several undrafted free agents as they begin their rookie minicamp this weekend.
Cincinnati announced the club has signed fourth-round center Connor Lew, fourth-round receiver Colbie Young, sixth-round center Brian Parker, seventh-round tight end Jack Endries, and seventh-round defensive tackle Landon Robinson.
That leaves second-round defensive end Cashius Howell and third-round cornerback Tacario Davis as the club’s remaining unsigned draftees.
The Bengals also signed 10 undrafted free agents: guard Liam Brown, running back Kentrel Bullock, linebacker Jack Dingle, linebacker Eric Gentry, running back Jamal Haynes, offensive tackle Christian Jones, tight end Josh Kattus, offensive tackle Corey Robinson, receiver Noah Thomas, and cornerback Ceyair Wright.
Dax Hill has shown he has the versatility to play in multiple spots in the Bengals secondary over the years, but he thinks the best plan is for him to stay at one position moving forward.
Hill began his time in Cincinnati as a safety and opened last season as a slot corner before moving to an outside corner spot a few weeks into the year. Hill finished the season with 88 tackles and an interception, and he said on Tuesday that he believes remaining in that spot will be the best thing for both him and the team.
“Staying at one spot, I feel like that’s ideal for development and my mental health. . . . It was challenging at first, but now I’m kind of used to it,” Hill said, via Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Enquirer. “But I feel like now I kind of know what I want and I want to do what’s best for the team.”
Hill is in the fifth year of his rookie deal, so his play in the coming season will help determine the size of his next contract. That makes his desire to feel as comfortable as possible even easier to understand as the Bengals move toward the start of the regular season.
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was nowhere near a football field on Monday, but his mind was still on the team’s prospects.
Burrow attended the Met Gala in New York City and did an interview with Nick Remsen of Vanity Fair — Burrow wore a suit from Bode, which means we won’t get a “The Bengal Wears Prada” headline — while getting ready for the festivities. Burrow was asked about his reaction to the recent trade for defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence as well as earlier moves to add safety Bryan Cook, edge rusher Boye Mafe, defensive tackle Jonathan Allen and safety Kyle Dugger in free agency.
“I’m really excited about the moves we made this offseason,” Burrow said. “We need to get better, so it was exciting to see the initiative from everybody in the organization to realize that we’re in this exciting stage. We’re in our primes playing great football. Finding guys like Dexter and Bryan Cook and Boye, to, you know, really solidify that defense so the young guys can also kind of rise up. We’re really going to try to achieve what we want to achieve.”
Whatever the reference, it’s a very different tone from Burrow than the deflated one he shared in some late-season press conferences last year. If that tone is still positive months from now, it will be a sign that the Bengals’ offseason maneuvering worked out as hoped.
