{"id":19591,"date":"2014-06-12T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-reach-deal-with-dennard\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:10:00","slug":"bengals-reach-deal-with-dennard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-reach-deal-with-dennard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals reach deal with Dennard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals announced Thursday that they have signed cornerback Darqueze Dennard, the team&#8217;s first-round selection in this year&#8217;s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Thorpe Award recipient honoring the nation&#8217;s top collegiate defensive back, Dennard was an integral part of a Michigan State defense that allowed the fewest yards per game in the BCS ranks last season and helped the Spartans to a 13-1 record and a victory over Stanford in the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been everything we hoped he would be to this point,&#8221; Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis said of Dennard. &#8220;He&#8217;s a great talent. He played in a big-time pressure defense at Michigan State and he&#8217;s not afraid to be out there (in coverage) by himself. And as we knew he would, he conducts himself every day as a mature pro who wants to get better every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Dennard now under contract, the Bengals have signed their entire 2014 draft class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals announced Thursday that they have signed cornerback Darqueze Dennard, the team&#8217;s first-round selection in this year&#8217;s NFL Draft. The 2013 Thorpe Award recipient honoring the nation&#8217;s top collegiate defensive back, Dennard was an integral part of a Michigan State defense that allowed the fewest yards per game in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,118,117],"class_list":["post-19591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}