John Joseph Shinners (March 1, 1947 – October 2, 2022) was an American football offensive lineman in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Colts, and Cincinnati Bengals.

Standing 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and weighing 245 pounds (111 kg), the offensive guard earned All-America honors from The Sporting News as a senior in 1968, becoming Xavier's first and only football All-American.

[2] Shinners was selected in the first round (17th overall) of the 1969 AFL-NFL Common Draft by the New Orleans Saints, where he spent three seasons.

After the Saints drafted Georgia guard Royce Smith in the first round of the 1972 draft, Shinners was traded to the Baltimore Colts for defensive back Jim Duncan, a 1972 fifth-round selection (126th overall–South Carolina defensive back Bo Davies) and a 1973 sixth-round pick (139th overall–Doug Kingsriter).

[4][5] His time with the Colts lasted nine months when he was traded to the Bengals for a 1973 fourth-round draft pick on October 24.

In 1954, his father became the co-owner of the Menomonee Falls News in Wisconsin, and in 1969 he bought several weekly newspapers in the Milwaukee area.