{"id":606456,"date":"2026-04-25T23:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:31:19","slug":"center-gavin-gerhardt-cincinnati-draft-pick-235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606456\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Gavin Gerhardt, Cincinnati, Draft Pick 235"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings circled a center with the 235th pick of the 2026 NFL Draft, selecting Gavin Gerhardt out of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhardt started 49 of 54 career games for the Bearcats, a six-season run from 2020-25.<\/p>\n<p>The 49 starts are the most at center by any Bearcat and are tied for third in program history at all positions.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhardt, 24, will reunite with Vikings second-round pick Jake Golday, a linebacker who had been Gerhardt&#8217;s teammate for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Gerhardt started all 13 games and helped the Bearcats o-line win Big 12 Line of the Week honors three times.<\/p>\n<p>He visited Minnesota earlier this month for a top 30 visit with the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings circled a center with the 235th pick of the 2026 NFL Draft, selecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[263003,222327,22158,28931,22159,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-606456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-draft-pick-articles","9":"tag-news-draft","10":"tag-news-index","11":"tag-news-press-release","12":"tag-news-team","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}