{"id":918782,"date":"2026-06-14T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/918782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:48:16","slug":"bengals-say-cashius-howells-arsenal-was-second-to-none-in-this-draft-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/918782\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals say Cashius Howell\u2019s arsenal was \u201csecond-to-none in this draft class\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> further bolstered their pass rush by adding Cashius Howell, a talented defensive end out of Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And on Tuesday, the team signed him to a rookie contract, bringing all seven rookies under contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">During a recent OTA practice, Dan Hoard quoted Bengals assistant GM Mike Potts as saying this about Howell:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHis arsenal of rush tools and the moves that he has \u2014 I don\u2019t wanna speak for anybody else \u2014 but I thought it was second-to-none in this draft class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Howell is an exciting player for sure. He\u2019s the kind of guy who can contribute right away, especially with a beefed-up defensive line taking up space in the middle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We talked about the rookie class in our NFL Draft recap, which you can watch below if you missed it originally:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals further bolstered their pass rush by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39983,7,6],"class_list":["post-918782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-cincinnati-bengals-draft","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116749251623689321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918782","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=918782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}