{"id":669668,"date":"2026-05-28T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669668\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:25:09","slug":"bengals-are-in-ongoing-conversation-with-nfl-to-host-2029-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669668\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals are in &#8220;ongoing conversation&#8221; with NFL to host 2029 draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next two drafts have been awarded. The third one could be on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Via the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Cincinnati Regional Sports Commission and the Bengals have engaged in an \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2026\/05\/26\/cincinnati-nfl-draft-bid-host-city-2029\/90219147007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=false&amp;gca-epti=z11xx37p118550l002450c118550u114737e1139xxv11xx37&amp;gca-ft=52&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ongoing conversation with the NFL<\/a>\u201d to host the 2029 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Per the report, the Bengals have submitted a letter of interest. Cincinnati has not submitted a formal bid at this point.<\/p>\n<p>For now, there\u2019s no timeline for a decision. <\/p>\n<p>The 2027 NFL draft will be held in D.C. Last week, the NFL awarded the 2028 NFL draft to Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>If the draft happens in Cincinnati, where would it occur? Said Cincinnati Regional Sports Commission executive director Ben Huffman, \u201cWherever [the NFL] would like it to be, we will make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the right attitude. Nearly every NFL city wants the draft. That gives the NFL the ability to dictate any and all terms to any city that gets it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next two drafts have been awarded. The third one could be on the way. Via the Cincinnati&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-669668","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\/669668","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=669668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}