{"id":869545,"date":"2026-04-19T00:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:39:22","slug":"bengals-swing-blockbuster-nfl-trade-with-giants-for-dexter-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869545\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals swing blockbuster NFL trade with Giants for Dexter Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> needed to add some help to their defense this offseason.<\/p>\n

They did just that on Saturday, pulling off a massive pre-Draft blockbuster trade for Dexter Lawrence.<\/p>\n

The New York Giants and Lawrence reached an impasse during recent contract negotiations, with the defensive tackle ultimately asking for a new home in a trade. That home will be in the AFC North, as the Bengals have agreed to a blockbuster trade for Lawrence.<\/p>\n

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The deal includes the tenth-overall selection in next week\u2019s 2026 NFL Draft. That means that the Giants now have a pair of picks inside the top ten in next week\u2019s Draft, the number five selection and then the number ten selection.<\/p>\n

New York has been linked with several of the top defensive prospects in the draft, including linebacker Sonny Styles<\/a>. Now with a pair of picks inside the top ten, the Giants can add both a premium defensive prospect as well as another player, perhaps one of the top offensive line prospects in the class to help protect Jaxson<\/a> Dart.<\/p>\n

As for the Bengals, their investments along the defense continue. Cincinnati<\/a> added Boye Mafe<\/a>, Bryan Cook<\/a>, and Jonathan Allen<\/a> already this offseason, and now Lawrence joins that group of additions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals needed to add some help to their defense this offseason. They did just that on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7104,14163,35570,227,256,2793,1489,3350,7,345,4769,9085,17589,14285,56,6,2239],"class_list":{"0":"post-869545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-blockbuster-trade","9":"tag-boye-mafe","10":"tag-bryan-cook","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-defensive-tackle","14":"tag-dexter-lawrence","15":"tag-east-rutherford","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-green-bay-packers","18":"tag-jaxson","19":"tag-jonathan-allen","20":"tag-metlife-stadium","21":"tag-new-jersey","22":"tag-new-york-giants","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-sonny-styles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116428587898737826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869545","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=869545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}