Cincinnati Bengals · S RoomS
#39 Russ Yeast
Exp 4 yrs NFLAge 27Ht / Wt 5'10" · 195 lbCollege Kansas State
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Updated 2026-07-29S room context
View full depth chart →Russ Yeast holds the FS · Depth spot in Cincinnati Bengals’s safety room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:
Background & career
Russ Yeast is a safety who spent his 2025 season on Cincinnati's practice squad after being waived by Houston in late August. The seventh-round pick (253rd overall) by the Los Angeles Rams in 2022 appeared in 32 games with nine starts during his first two seasons before seeing action in four contests across three teams in 2024. Yeast finished his college career at Kansas State in 2021 following four seasons at Louisville. In his lone year at Kansas State, he led the Big 12 Conference with 14 pass deflections and recorded four interceptions to earn first-team All-Big 12 honors.
Kansas Statethrough 2021
Rams2022 – 2023
Texans2024Bengals2025 — present
CollegeKansas StateDraftRound 7 · No. 253 overall · 2022 · LARAcquiredAcquired from Los Angeles Rams · drafted thereHometownDanville, KY
Kansas StateDraftRound 7 · No. 253 overall · 2022 · LARAcquiredAcquired from Los Angeles Rams · drafted thereHometownDanville, KY