{"id":641779,"date":"2026-05-14T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:19:12","slug":"shemar-stewart-gives-no-97-to-dexter-lawrence-for-a-reasonable-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641779\/","title":{"rendered":"Shemar Stewart gives No. 97 to Dexter Lawrence for a &#8220;reasonable number&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Bengals defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/dexter-lawrence-wants-no-97-from-shemar-stewart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wanted No. 97<\/a> from Shemar Stewart. And Lawrence has gotten it.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart told reporters this week that he surrendered 97 for an undisclosed fee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan, he earned that, so it\u2019s his number,\u201d Stewart said, via Noelle Blumel of WCPO. \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoelleBlumel\/status\/2054270188149748164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2054270188149748164%7Ctwgr%5E2fa3148d40a33cea64d53782f585d94d72577cbc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbengalswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fbengals%2F2026%2F05%2F13%2Fshemar-stewart-jersey-number-change-dexter-lawrence-bengals%2F90058432007%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">So I had no right to keep that number<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversation between Lawrence and Stewart was simple. \u201cDex [was] like, \u2018What you want for the number?\u2019\u201d Stewart said. \u201cTold him a reasonable number. And he\u2019s like, \u2018OK.\u2019 Here, I told him, like, \u2018I\u2019m not gonna be the one to stop you from getting your number. I\u2019m not that type of guy. You\u2019re probably like a walking legend.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart has moved to No. 94, which was worn by Sam Hubbard from 2018 through 2024. Defensive tackle Jordan Jefferson wore No. 94 in 2025; he has now moved to No. 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bengals defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence wanted No. 97 from Shemar Stewart. And Lawrence has gotten it. Stewart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-641779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641779","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=641779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}