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Joe Flacco is not hanging it up simply but.
Per Professional Soccer Speak’s Mike Florio “a supply with information of Flacco’s pondering” stated the Indianapolis Colts quarterback “absolutely intends to play” subsequent season.
Flacco, 39, will wrap up his seventeenth NFL season on Sunday when he begins towards the Jacksonville Jaguars. Although he is not the identical quarterback that led the Baltimore Ravens to a Tremendous Bowl in 2012, he is put collectively a powerful second act to his profession.
Final season, he performed 5 video games with the Cleveland Browns and threw for 1,616 yards and 13 touchdowns. He gained 4 of his 5 video games because the starter and in the end revived the Browns and led them to the playoffs.
Flacco hasn’t fared fairly as effectively along with his new workforce this season, throwing for 1,497 passing yards, 11 touchdowns and 7 interceptions by means of seven video games. The Colts benched younger quarterback Anthony Richardson for Flacco however turned again to Richardson after simply two video games when Flacco could not get issues going.
Flacco put collectively considered one of his greatest video games of the season final week although, throwing for 330 yards and a pair of touchdowns towards the New York Giants.
Flacco signed a one-year deal with the Colts earlier than the 2024 season and can return to free company this offseason. Indianapolis would possibly welcome Flacco again subsequent season to again up Richardson, but when the Colts do not signal him, many groups would possible be prepared to herald the veteran.
In accordance with Florio, Flacco is prepared to return off the bench as he did in Indianapolis, which might solely assist his probabilities of getting picked up in free company.
