{"id":874637,"date":"2026-04-25T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874637\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:24:28","slug":"navy-standout-and-ohio-native-landon-robinson-is-the-bengals-final-pick-of-the-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874637\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy standout and Ohio native Landon Robinson is the Bengals\u2019 final pick of the 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the 226th pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> have selected Navy Midshipmen defensive tackle Landon Robinson, a Fairlawn, Ohio native who both the team and fans fell in love with in the pre-draft process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And that, my friends, was the final selection of the 2026 Bengals draft class, which turned out to be a productive haul overall, despite the team not having a first-round pick following the Dexter Lawrence trade with the New York Giants<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 5-foot-11, 293-pound Robinson was a productive college player who fell in the draft due to his size. He actually began his Navy career as a linebacker before moving to defensive tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This past season proved to be the best of Robinson\u2019s career, as he racked up 64 total tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, and one fumble recovery across 13 games. He was named First-Team All-American by the AP, as well as the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Great way to wrap up a fun week in Pittsburgh!<\/p>\n<p>Bengals\u2019 Top Draft Needs Remaining<\/p>\n<p>How to watch NFL Draft Rounds 4-7<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">___________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 226th pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals have selected Navy Midshipmen defensive tackle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,39983,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":["post-874637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnati-bengals-draft","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116467693216343787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874637","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=874637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}