{"id":960044,"date":"2026-07-31T02:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/960044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:18:16","slug":"bengals-de-shemar-stewart-to-miss-several-weeks-because-of-hyperextended-left-knee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/960044\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals DE Shemar Stewart to miss several weeks because of hyperextended left knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Bengals defensive end <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CalebNoeTV\/status\/2082494959895146795?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shemar Stewart<\/a> is expected to miss most of training camp after hyperextending his left knee during Wednesday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Zac Taylor said after Thursday&#8217;s practice that Stewart avoided a major injury, but that the second-year defensive lineman will miss several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard to pinpoint exactly how far into training camp that will be. Very fortunate because obviously it looked bad,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, the Bengals\u2019 first-round draft pick in 2025, played in only eight games last season because of injuries. He had 11 tackles with one sack.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals invested heavily at defensive end in the offseason with free agent Boye Mafe and second-round pick Cashius Howell. Myles Murphy, their 2023 first-round pick, is a projected starter.<\/p>\n<p>Cedric Johnson, a 2024 sixth-round pick, and Isaiah Foskey, claimed off waivers last season, are behind Stewart on the depth chart and will see additional snaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Bengals defensive end Shemar Stewart is expected to miss most of training camp after hyperextending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,14062,14163,21912,32770,227,256,2296,7,6869,6,27878,27876,27877,1496,2729],"class_list":["post-960044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-bengals","tag-bengals-shemar-stewart","tag-boye-mafe","tag-cashius-howell","tag-cedric-johnson","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-isaiah-foskey","tag-nfl","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40806-ap-ohio-sports-only","tag-shemar-stewart","tag-zac-taylor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117012195155218713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960044","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=960044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}