{"id":259464,"date":"2025-08-03T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/259464\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:24:15","slug":"bengals-2025-depth-chart-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/259464\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals 2025 Depth Chart first look"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bengals offered a first glimpse of their 2025 depth chart<\/a> Sunday with Thursday night’s preseason opener (7:30-Cincinnati’s FOX 19) looming in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The coaches consider the first depth chart of a season not worth the paper it’s printed on because of unfinished training camp battles, but it’s compulsory during a game week and is largely crafted by the Bengals’ public relations department.<\/p>\n

This one has few surprises with Dax Hill<\/a> listed as the starting slot cornerback, even though he’s being eased in at the end of his ACL recovery. He’s backed up by Josh Newton<\/a>, who is having a terrific camp. Cam Taylor-Britt<\/a> and DJ Turner<\/a> are the starting outside cornerbacks.<\/p>\n

Lucas Patrick<\/a>, the veteran the Bengals signed in free agency, is listed as the starting right guard. But that’s believed to be an evolving situation with Patrick in a tight race with Cody Ford.<\/a><\/p>\n

Two rookies, second-round linebacker Demetrius Knight Jr.<\/a>, and third-round left guard Dylan Fairchild<\/a>, are listed as starters. First-round pick Shemar Stwart<\/a>, who is ending his first week of practice drawing raves while moving inside and out, backs up Myles Murphy<\/a> at left end.<\/p>\n

Incumbent long-snapper Cal Adomitis<\/a> gets the nod over college free agent William Wagner.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to view the Bengals’ 2025 depth chart.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bengals offered a first glimpse of their 2025 depth chart Sunday with Thursday night’s preseason opener (7:30-Cincinnati’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[23699,228,443,227,256,2296,7,1843,81,898,6,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-259464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-centerpiece","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-hobson","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-stories","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114966945022649782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259464","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=259464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}