{"id":25240,"date":"2025-07-27T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25240\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:08:09","slug":"bengals-sign-first-round-draft-pick-shemar-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25240\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals sign first-round draft pick Shemar Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Bengals have signed their first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>ESPN NFL Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1948871164924674185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Adam Schefter reported Friday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Adam Schefter reported Friday<\/a> that the team agreed to a four-year, fully guaranteed contract for nearly $19 million with Shemar Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how long I\u2019ve been dreaming about this,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/shemar-stewart-ready-to-work-i-can-t-tell-you-how-long-i-ve-been-dreaming-about-this\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>Stewart started 19 times in 37 games at Texas A&amp;M from 2022-24.<\/p>\n<p>He had 65 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, four pass break-ups, one forced fumble, and two fumble recoveries in his college career.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart was drafted 17th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He earned third-team All-SEC honors as a junior last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals have now signed all six selections from the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals have signed their first-round draft pick. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[24724,64,63,5360,1252,11238,593,10028,5376,85,24725],"class_list":["post-25240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adam-schefter","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-draft-pick","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-shemar-stewart","tag-sports","tag-trending-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}