Bengals Reaction: “Jalen has that versatility, and that will prove valuable for us… that versatility will factor for us, it’s only a positive.” – OC Dan Pitcher on Rivers playing all over the offensive line<\/p>\n
“Really impressive guy… couldn’t be more impressed with him as a person… You’re not going to find anyone who says a bad word about the guy” – OC Dan Pitcher on Rivers’s character<\/p>\n
Player Reaction: “I’m extremely excited to be a part of this program. This program, I’ve visited and I’ve talked to coaches and I’ve been watching for a long time, so I’m excited to be a part of building an organization and a team that’s going to be great. I’m just another addition to it, so I’m ecstatic right now. Lost for words.” – Jalen Rivers<\/p>\n
“Just the family atmosphere of everybody. I got immediately comfortable with everybody in that program and I know a couple of guys on the team like Matt Lee, DJ Ivey that went to the University of Miami as well. The coaches \u2014 just great guys. I could tell they are great human beings. Talking to them, I felt like I was right at home, talking regular like with family and friends. That was most memorable and that stuck out the most.” – Jalen Rivers on what stood out to him on his visit to Cincinnati<\/p>\n
College Highlights: Rivers played all five spots on the offensive line for the Hurricanes over his college career. He was Honorable Mention All-ACC in 2024 and was Second-team All-ACC in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengals Reaction: “Jalen has that versatility, and that will prove valuable for us… that versatility will factor for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,2014,443,7,81,898,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-2012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-2025pick153","10":"tag-centerpiece","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-latest-stories","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114405920396773808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}