Hopeless;AJ McCarron,agreed the trade of $44.7m leaving now………
AJ McCarron spent the 2022 season out of the NFL, but he has found his wake back to where his professional journey started.
Ahead of Week 3 of the 2023 NFL season, McCarron was signed to the Bengals’ practice squad to provide depth at the quarterback position. At the time, Joe Burrow was dealing with a calf injury and Jake Browning was the team’s only other quarterback after the Patriots sniped Will Grier from the Cincinnati practice squad.
McCarron wasn’t ultimately called up for the Bengals’ “Monday Night Football” clash with the Rams; the honor of being Cincinnati’s third-string quarterback for the contest went to Reid Sinnett. However, making it back to the Bengals’ roster was certainly a win for McCarron after his journey back to the NFL.
McCarron was a star at Alabama. He won three national championships in college — two as a starter — at the beginning of the 2010s and established himself as one of the most successful quarterbacks in school history before carving out an NFL career as a backup.
But after spending the 2022 season out of the league, McCarron managed to revive his career with the St. Louis Battlehawks in the XFL. That allowed him to return to the NFL for his ninth season.
