{"id":202643,"date":"2026-04-19T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:51:08","slug":"dexter-lawrence-signs-contract-extension-with-the-cincinnati-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202643\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexter Lawrence signs contract extension with the Cincinnati Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former New York Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence is officially a member of the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The extension ties Lawrence to the Bengals for the next three seasons. And while $28 million makes Lawrence among the highest paid tackles on the NFL, neither the length of the extension nor the number are the massive numbers many were expecting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants and Bengals have also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2045887605544218769\" rel=\"nofollow\">agreed to the terms<\/a> of the trade. The Bengals are officially sending the 10th overall pick to the Giants in exchange for Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants now hold the fifth and 10th overall picks, giving them control of 20% of the top 10 picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The interesting part of the Lawrence extension is that it does not appear to touch the next two years of his deal, which he was thought to be unhappy with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence is officially a member of the Cincinnati Bengals. The extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,27916,8144,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-202643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-new-york-giants-discussion","13":"tag-new-york-giants-news","14":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}