Zac Taylor<\/a> sitting next to his wife and their 10-month-old on her lap playing with a phone. Their two-year-old waited out of the picture as the littlest one began to be overwhelmed with the noise of the reaction.<\/p>\n“He’s OK today,’ his dad said. “He’s at the pool.”<\/p>\n
His dad is also in the pool to compete for a job thanks, in part, to studying Wilson.<\/p>\n
“The tenacity he plays with, but also the IQ he plays with,” Knight said. “Smart. He knows where the routes are going, and he’s a great talent in coverage. Great all-around linebacker.”<\/p>\n
So imagine the kick when Wilson texted him right after he talked to Taylor.<\/p>\n
One of the bold items in Knight’s bio is that he’s distant cousins of R&B legends Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin. But music isn’t distant in the family.<\/p>\n
“My sister sings in college,” he said of his younger sister, a senior at Alabama’s Samford University. “My dad sings in church. I went to sports like my mom. She played basketball and did track in high school.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“In a couple of ways,” Fairchild said. “Mentally, the biggest thing. Just having a relentless mindset, battling it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[80,228,443,227,256,2296,1769,1165,7,1843,81,898,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-21503","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-bengals","10":"tag-centerpiece","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-demetrius-knight-jr","15":"tag-dylan-fairchild","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-hobson","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latest-stories","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114445953546943283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","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=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}