Defensive End · Cincinnati Bengals

Cashius Howell

No. 55 · Rookie

Cashius Howell grew up rooting for the team he now lines up against

There is a certain kind of player who makes it to the league by a road nobody drew a map for. Cashius Howell is that kind.

Howell came up with a background in hockey — a sport built on instinct, aggression, and reading the ice before anyone else does. Somewhere along the way, those instincts found a new home on a football field. Now he lines up for the Cincinnati Bengals and rushes quarterbacks for a living.

The wrinkle is this: Howell has roots that run straight back to Kansas City Chiefs country. He grew up connected to the team his Bengals face in the same division — the franchise that, for a lot of Ohio-born football families, means something personal.

There is no clean way to file that away. You spend years rooting for one sideline, and then one day you are the guy trying to wreck everything they are building. That is the job now.

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