{"id":694244,"date":"2026-06-09T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694244\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:08:08","slug":"cashius-howell-signs-rookie-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694244\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashius Howell Signs Rookie Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals today signed DE <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/cashius-howell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cashius Howell<\/a>, the team&#8217;s second-round draft pick out of Texas A&amp;M University.<\/p>\n<p>Howell (6-3, 255) spent his final two collegiate seasons (2024-25) with the Aggies, after beginning his career at Bowling Green State University (&#8217;21-23). In 56 career games (25 starts), he totaled 127 tackles, 35.5 TFLs, 27 sacks, 15 pass breakups, one INT, three FFs and one FR. In 2025, he posted a career-high 11.5 sacks, was named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year and earned first-team All-America honors from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals now have signed each of their seven selections in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bengals today signed DE Cashius Howell, the team&#8217;s second-round draft pick out of Texas A&amp;M University. Howell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[54639,7094,25679,399,32304,829,398,396,397,32303,99,6182],"class_list":["post-694244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-54639","tag-cashius-howell","tag-centerpiece","tag-football","tag-latest-stories","tag-latest-news","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-press-release","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694244","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=694244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}