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Draft Grade — Bengals
Overall
C
ValueA+
NeedB
TradesF
FutureB-
The Bengals won the night they stopped Lemon from sliding. Grade: C. The Bengals spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Makai Lemon, the No. 16 name on the board, in pick 72. It nets out a thoroughly average C.
Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. For all the activity, cornerback went untouched, which is hard to explain.
Wide receiver is handled and the depth chart looks a good deal healthier for it. The skill positions did well by the weekend.
If Jeremiyah Love and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.
Pick Analysis
Pick41
Rnd2
Jeremiyah Love
Jeremiyah Love at the 41st pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick72
Rnd3
Makai Lemon
Somehow Makai Lemon was still sitting there in Round 3, Pick 8, and they pounced on premier wide receiver value. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.



