{"id":16844,"date":"2025-05-02T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/16844\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:58:17","slug":"cowboys-star-micah-parsons-loved-bengals-shemar-stewart-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/16844\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys star Micah Parsons loved Bengals&#8217; Shemar Stewart pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate around the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/test-post-221407100.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> selecting Shemar Stewart in the first round of the 2025 NFL draft continues to get interesting entries roughly a week out from the event.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most immediate reactions that is worth a look went a little under the radar during the chaos of the draft itself.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Cowboys superstar Micah Parsons &#8212; who knows a thing or two about rushing the passer &#8212; made it clear that he thinks Stewart should have a long career in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He may not finish,&#8221; Parsons said, &#8220;but I will say his get off, everything up to that point is 110 miles per hour&#8230;I don&#8217;t really look at the sack numbers, but the size, he&#8217;s an every-down defensive end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/2025-nfl-draft-ras-scores-133804818.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 NFL draft: RAS scores for new Bengals rookie class;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 NFL draft: RAS scores for new Bengals rookie class<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/instant-analysis-bengals-picking-shemar-021348915.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:we wrote at the time of the pick;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we wrote at the time of the pick<\/a>, Stewart being able to come in and set the edge against the run like he did in college &#8212; and like Sam Hubbard did before him &#8212; is a nice thing to get. Everything else Parsons speaks to are traits the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals<\/a> really want to develop. Stewart didn&#8217;t pile up sacks in college, but he did lead his team in pressures last year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Again, Stewart is very much a traits vs. production debate, a theme across the roster on defense for the Bengals right now. They&#8217;re banking on new coordinator Al Golden being able to unlock the massive ceilings on the younger players in 2025 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/draft-experts-said-bengals-dl-093053111.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:What draft experts said about new Bengals DL Shemar Stewart;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What draft experts said about new Bengals DL Shemar Stewart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/01\/cowboys-star-micah-parsons-loved-bengals-shemar-stewart-pick\/83392677007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cowboys star Micah Parsons loved Bengals&#039; Shemar Stewart pick;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cowboys star Micah Parsons loved Bengals&#8217; Shemar Stewart pick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate around the Cincinnati Bengals selecting Shemar Stewart in the first round of the 2025 NFL draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,257,7,491,6,2346,1496],"class_list":{"0":"post-16844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-micah-parsons","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sam-hubbard","17":"tag-shemar-stewart"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114436001496966155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844","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=16844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}