{"id":255233,"date":"2026-07-29T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/bengals-defense-dealt-potential-blow-following-scary-injury-to-2025-first-round-pick\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:39:06","slug":"bengals-defense-dealt-potential-blow-following-scary-injury-to-2025-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/bengals-defense-dealt-potential-blow-following-scary-injury-to-2025-first-round-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals defense dealt potential blow following scary injury to 2025 first-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati_bengals\/33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> were counting on big things from 2025 first-rounder Shemar Stewart this season. After Wednesday, however, they might be lucky to see him on the field at all.<\/p>\n<p>During the team&#8217;s first open training camp practice, Stewart, selected No. 17 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, left on a cart after suffering an apparent left knee injury during 11 on 11 drills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CalebNoeTV\/status\/2082494959895146795?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Video showed his knee<\/a> bending at an awkward angle, and according to reports, after working with trainers, he was unable to put weight on the leg and was carted off the field.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart was limited to eight games last season due to injuries, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByJayMorrison\/status\/1985096328557301961\" target=\"_blank\">including a left knee in November<\/a> that resulted in him being placed on injured reserve. He finished the year with one sack \u2014 recorded in Week 17 \u2014 but was expected to be a more significant contributor in 2026. Wednesday&#8217;s setback puts that in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<h2>Shemar Stewart&#8217;s potential breakout on hold as Cincinnati Bengals await severity of apparent knee injury<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/bengals_defense_dealt_potential_blow_following_scary_injury_to_2025_first_round_pick\/s1_13132_44115070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Bengals were counting on big things from 2025 first-rounder Shemar Stewart this season. After Wednesday, however, they might be lucky to see him on the field at all. During the team&#8217;s first open training camp practice, Stewart, selected No. 17 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, left on a cart after suffering an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}