{"id":874653,"date":"2026-04-25T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:48:13","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-center-gavin-gerhardt-cincinnati-draft-pick-235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874653\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Center Gavin Gerhardt, Cincinnati, Draft Pick 235"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings circled a center with the 235th pick of the 2026 NFL Draft, selecting Gavin Gerhardt out of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhardt started 49 of 54 career games for the Bearcats, a six-season run from 2020-25.<\/p>\n<p>The 49 starts are the most at center by any Bearcat and are tied for third in program history at all positions.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhardt, 24, will reunite with Vikings second-round pick Jake Golday, a linebacker who had been Gerhardt&#8217;s teammate for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Gerhardt started all 13 games and helped the Bearcats o-line win Big 12 Line of the Week honors three times.<\/p>\n<p>He visited Minnesota earlier this month for a top 30 visit with the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings circled a center with the 235th pick of the 2026 NFL Draft, selecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1026,7,270,1025,2818,1219,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-874653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-draft-pick-articles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-news-draft","11":"tag-news-index","12":"tag-news-press-release","13":"tag-news-team","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116467787611178016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874653","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=874653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}