{"id":616326,"date":"2026-04-19T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:25:12","slug":"top-reactions-by-bengals-players-nfl-world-to-dexter-lawrence-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616326\/","title":{"rendered":"Top reactions by Bengals players, NFL world to Dexter Lawrence trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> decided to make Saturday night as hyped as the first round of the NFL draft when they shipped the 10th overall pick to the New York Giants<\/a> for defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we wrote in our instant analysis of the Bengals trading for Lawrence<\/a>, it\u2019s a generational moment. The Bengals<\/a> have never done something like this and never been so obviously all-in.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s all about sending a message to Joe Burrow<\/a>, the rest of the locker room and the fans. And it\u2019s about paying a serious tax for years of bad drafting.<\/p>\n

And all of that showed in the reactions from Bengals players and the broader NFL world.<\/p>\n

NFL world reacts to Bengals trading for Dexter Lawrence<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Top reactions by Bengals players, NFL world to Dexter Lawrence trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals decided to make Saturday night as hyped as the first round of the NFL draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,75220,74881,1252,55397,63435,629,17461,64074,1242,593,218041,85,38954],"class_list":{"0":"post-616326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boye-mafe","11":"tag-bryan-cook","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-dexter-lawrence","14":"tag-dj-turner","15":"tag-joe-burrow","16":"tag-jonathan-allen","17":"tag-kyle-dugger","18":"tag-new-york-giants","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-orlando-brown-jr","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-vita-vea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616326","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=616326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}