With Thursday marking the start of the 2023 NFL regular season, free-agent quarterback Joe Flacco stands in unfamiliar territory for the first time in his career.
Flacco, a 15-year veteran, isn’t on an NFL roster for the first time since his senior season at Delaware in 2007. Now, the 38-year-old finds himself sitting at home awaiting his next opportunity. But, despite his current lack of options, the Super Bowl XLVII MVP spoke adamantly Thursday about the fact that he’s still eyeing an NFL return, not retirement.
“Listen, I can still play,” Flacco told ESPN. “That’s me talking, obviously. I’m hoping that there’s the silver lining that I’m not anywhere right now and that I can be available to anybody. I’m not saying it’s going to be the truth, but if I was tied up with somebody as a backup and just didn’t play at all when all of a sudden three guys go down, well, I’d probably be in the back of my head be thinking, ‘Oh, man, would I have had an opportunity to go there?’”
