{"id":10594,"date":"2025-04-29T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/10594\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:08:10","slug":"bengals-draft-class-jersey-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/10594\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Draft Class Jersey Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Round 2: LB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/demetrius-knight-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demetrius Knight Jr.<\/a> &#8211; 44<\/p>\n<p>Knight previously wore 17 during his time at South Carolina and Georgia Tech and donned 28 at Charlotte in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>  Round 3: G <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/dylan-fairchild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Fairchild<\/a> &#8211; 63<\/p>\n<p>An undefeated high school wrestling champion, Fairchild will go from 53 in Athens to 63 in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>  Round 4: LB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/barrett-carter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barrett Carter<\/a> &#8211; 49<\/p>\n<p>Carter became a Butkus Award finalist wearing number zero at Clemson, but he will wear the more traditional linebacker number of 49 with the Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>  Round 5: OT <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/jalen-rivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Rivers<\/a> &#8211; 74<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, like Fairchild, will also increase his number by 10, going from 64 in college to 74 in the pros.<\/p>\n<p>  Round 6: RB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/team\/players-roster\/jalen-rivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tahj Brooks<\/a> &#8211; 25<\/p>\n<p>After writing his name in the Big 12 record books wearing 28, Brooks will start a new legacy for himself in the number 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 2: LB Demetrius Knight Jr. &#8211; 44 Knight previously wore 17 during his time at South Carolina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[80,2778,228,443,227,256,2296,1769,1165,7,2773,81,898,6,15,1496,2297],"class_list":{"0":"post-10594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-barrett-carter","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-centerpiece","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-demetrius-knight-jr","16":"tag-dylan-fairchild","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-jalen-rivers","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latest-stories","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-draft","23":"tag-shemar-stewart","24":"tag-tahj-brooks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114423064564266599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}