Bengals will face Andy Dalton in Week 4 after Panthers bench Bryce Young

The Bengals will face off against the Red Rifle in just a couple weeks.

After the Carolina Panthers dropped their Week 2 game against the Chargers while only being able to muster one field goal offensively, head coach Dave Canales made the announcement on Monday that former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton would be starting for the team moving forward.

Dalton was the Bengals’ second-round selection out of TCU in the 2011 NFL Draft. He came to Cincinnati on the heels of Carson Palmer’s trade demand, and he, wide receiver AJ Green, and head coach Marvin Lewis went on to have unprecedented success, going to the playoffs in five straight seasons.

Unfortunately, those five playoff games were all lost, and Mike Brown went a different direction, hiring Zac Taylor, who went on to select Joe Burrow with the No. 1 overall selection in the 2020 draft. They released him in April, just before the draft.

He’s bounced around from the Cowboys to the Bears and now with the Panthers.

Young has struggled since he came into the league, but there are few better backup options than Dalton.

Dalton is second in Bengals franchise history with 31,594 passing yards, behind only Ken Anderson, and he’s first in team history in touchdown passes, with 204.

The Bengals face Dalton and the Panthers in Week 4 on the road, and Dalton would surely love nothing more than to defeat the team that benched him on his birthday in 2019.

The Bengals better not look at the Ravens, who play the following week, and ignore the Panthers because the Red Rifle will make them pay if they do.