Last week’s trade agreement between the Broncos and Ravens, which will send Joe Flacco to Denver and the better of the Broncos’ two fourth-round picks to Baltimore, looks set to go through.
Flacco traveled to Denver and passed a physical conducted by the Broncos, Albert Breer of SI.com reports.
Although Flacco has started 16 games in nine of his 11 seasons, he has battled a few injuries in recent years. Following his torn ACL in 2015, Flacco encountered back trouble during the 2017 offseason. Last season, a hip injury sidelined him for weeks and eventually led to Lamar Jackson stepping in and, ultimately, bringing setting up last week’s trade.
No trade can become official until the 2019 league year begins on March 13. Flacco will then be headed to the Broncos, where he stands to become the team’s fourth Week 1 starting quarterback in the past five seasons — following Peyton Manning, Trevor Siemian and Case Keenum. Denver’s previous starter remains on the roster, but the Broncos are planning to trade or, more likely, cut the soon-to-be 31-year-old Keenum.
Now 34, Flacco will play on an $18.5MM salary next season. He is not expected to redo his through-2021 contract, which contains no more guaranteed money. The Ravens will eat $16MM in dead money once the trade goes through.
They don’t look for dead arms?
Broncos will be two times worse with this goofball
jay cutler 2.0
I heard there physical is a rousing game of beer pong.
Best off season move so far. Flacco has proven he can win consistently when supported by strong defenses and Fangio has a proven record of building very good defenses.
Saw this on Twitter from Nick Wright: he’s a star guru:
Flacco is *literally* dead last in the NFL amongst starters over the last 6 years in the following categories:
Yards Per Attempt
QB Rating
TD-INT Ratio
I hate the dead money part of the NFL’s payroll.
But it would be even worse to give GMs a clean slate after every bad decision.
There went the Broncos let chance to get out of the deal.