{"id":870276,"date":"2026-04-19T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:15:59","slug":"dexter-lawrences-first-comments-since-trade-from-giants-to-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870276\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexter Lawrence&#8217;s first comments since trade from Giants to Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dexter Lawrnece spoke out for the first time since he was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/18\/sports\/giants-trade-dexter-lawrence-to-the-bengals-in-nfl-blockbuster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded to the Bengals over the weekend<\/a> in a blockbuster pre-draft deal, which ended an offseason saga between the defensive tackle and the Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview with team-affiliated media, Lawrence sounded like he had extra motivation going into the 2026 season with the Bengals.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39136081\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/97-new-york-giants-walks-117717937.jpg\" alt=\"Dexter Lawrence II #97 of the New York Giants walks off the field at the end of the game at MetLife Stadium, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in East Rutherford, New Jersey.\" class=\"wp-image-39136081\"  \/>Dexter Lawrence II #97 of the New York Giants walks off the field at the end of the game at MetLife Stadium, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted me here,\u201d he said. \u201cThey appreciated the work that I\u2019ve put in the last seven seasons. I\u2019m going to do everything I can to show them they didn\u2019t waste [a top 10] pick. I\u2019ve got a fire in me that I\u2019ve never had before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence was traded to Cincy in a deal that sent the Giants back the No. 10 overall pick in this week\u2019s NFL draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dexter Lawrnece spoke out for the first time since he was traded to the Bengals over the weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[256,1489,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-870276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-dexter-lawrence","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116433925543079956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870276","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=870276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}