{"id":220123,"date":"2025-07-19T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/220123\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:49:11","slug":"bengals-sign-lb-demetrius-knight-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/220123\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Sign LB Demetrius Knight Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals today signed LB Demetrius Knight Jr., the team&#8217;s second-round draft pick out of the University of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Knight (6-2, 240) spent his first four collegiate seasons (2019-22) at Georgia Tech, before playing one year (&#8217;23) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and one (&#8217;24) at South Carolina. He played in all 13 games with 10 starts for the Gamecocks last season and totaled 82 tackles, eight TFLs, two sacks, one INT and three FFs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bengals today signed LB Demetrius Knight Jr., the team&#8217;s second-round draft pick out of the University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,443,227,256,2296,1769,7,81,898,6,4435,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-220123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-centerpiece","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-demetrius-knight-jr","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latest-stories","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-press-release","19":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114881401097287064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220123","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=220123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}