Bengals Reaction: “Great lateral quickness. Good ball skills. Can protect for us. Good all-around back.” – HC Zac Taylor.<\/p>\n
Player Reaction: “I feel like I am an all-around back. I’m very versatile. I can catch the ball out of the backfield, I’m very explosive in the run game and I have very solid hands in pass pro. That’s something you see on my tape a lot.” – Tahj Brooks<\/p>\n
“It was a great experience. I’m very blessed that the Bengals organization drafted me. It was awesome. It put a smile to my face. Me and the running backs coach (Justin Hill) go very well. He was a guy that recruited me in college and I’m glad I got to be back with him.” – Tahj Brooks on receiving the call he was drafted<\/p>\n
College Highlights: Brooks had back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons with the Red Raiders and tallied 633 touches over that span, forcing 154 missed tackles (third in FBS). He was First-team All-Big 12 Conference in 2023, ranking fourth in the FBS in rushing yards. He was named second-team All-Big 12 after scoring 17 rushing touchdowns. He set a school record with 879 rushing attempts and 4,557 rushing yards for his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengals Reaction: “Great lateral quickness. Good ball skills. Can protect for us. Good all-around back.” – HC Zac…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[80,3726,228,443,227,256,2296,7,81,898,6,15,2297],"class_list":{"0":"post-4256","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-2025pick193","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-centerpiece","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-stories","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-draft","20":"tag-tahj-brooks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114409989991066581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","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=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}