The Bengals will bring in some additional Andy Dalton insurance. They added Brad Kaaya via waiver claim on Monday, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets.
The Colts waived Kaaya on Friday. He lands in a spot with more potential upward mobility and with a revamped coaching staff.
Cincinnati opted not to bring in a veteran backup to replace A.J. McCarron last year, and when Dalton went down last season, former sixth-round pick Jeff Driskel finished the season as the Bengals’ starter. Driskel’s 176 career pass attempts are 176 more than Kaaya has attempted.
But new Bengals HC Zac Taylor will attempt to see what Kaaya can do. New Bengals quarterbacks coach Brian Callahan likely played a role here; he was Kaaya’s position coach with the Lions in 2017.
A 2017 sixth-round pick, Kaaya will head to a fourth NFL city. The Lions, Panthers and Colts have cut ties with the former Miami quarterback who was once viewed as a possible first-round pick. Inconsistency dropped him to a Day 3 prospect.
His sister Sarah Kaaya-Comesin is a famous artist from New York
Haha great Office reference. It takes a real fan to come up with that one.
No it’s horrible! Jim, she might get arrested.