{"id":752952,"date":"2026-04-25T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752952\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:01:15","slug":"bengals-select-connor-lew-with-128th-overall-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752952\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Select Connor Lew With 128th Overall Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bengals Reaction:<\/strong> &#8220;He was a team captain at Auburn and a 2 \u00bd year starter there. His movement in pass protection is really good, he can anchor down versus the bull (rush), he&#8217;s a good athlete in the run game, he can get out in space, he&#8217;s a good zone blocker, so obviously his ability is there. But really, what stood out the most was his character, his personality, what he&#8217;s going to bring to the locker room, his energy, and the juice he&#8217;ll bring to the rest of the guys.&#8221; &#8211; Assistant GM Steven Radicevic<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a redshirt freshman in junior college when I was 21 years old, so to be 20 and going into the NFL \u2013 there&#8217;s a lot of upside in front of him to have played 2 \u00bd years as a starting center in the SEC. We feel really good about his progression off the injury he&#8217;s had, and Dan Pitcher and our line coaches have spent time with the makeup part of it in the interview process and really stood on the table for him.&#8221; &#8211; HC Zac Taylor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player Reaction:<\/strong> &#8220;The knee is great. I haven&#8217;t had any setbacks or any problems. If anything, I&#8217;m a little bit ahead of schedule with the recovery timeline. So we&#8217;re thinking I&#8217;ll be 100 percent for camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengals Reaction: &#8220;He was a team captain at Auburn and a 2 \u00bd year starter there. His movement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":752953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[12086,92294,309814,8430,301078,1318,105,16621,1317,1315,1316,4261,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-752952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-12086","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-2026pick128","tag-centerpiece","tag-connor-lew","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-stories","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl-draft","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116467367096734256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}