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Draft Selections
Draft Picks Received
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1
(NE)
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5
(LV)
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Draft Picks Traded
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(TEN)
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(TEN)
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(TEN)
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Players Gained
Budda
Baker
S
Jessie
Bates III
S
Trevon
Diggs
CB
Jermaine
Johnson
LB
Marte
Mapu
LB
Will
McDonald IV
DE
Sean
Murphy-Bunting
CB
Players traded away
Andrei
Iosivas
WR
BJ
Hill
DT
Chase
Brown
RB
Geno
Stone
S
Jordan
Battle
S
Logan
Wilson
LB
Mike
Gesicki
TE
Noah
Fant
TE
Orlando
Brown Jr.
OT
Samaje
Perine
RB
Tee
Higgins
WR
Trey
Hendrickson
DE
Draft Grade — Bengals
Overall
B+
ValueC-
NeedA-
TradesA+
FutureA
The Bengals robbed the room for Judkins. Final grade: B+. Call it larceny. Quinshon Judkins sat on the board until pick 193, and the Bengals did not need to be asked twice. Call it a sensible B+, earned the boring way.
They are betting Williams proves the room right and everyone else wrong. The phones were where this weekend was really won.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through quarterback.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the quarterback spot they never got to.
Pick Analysis
Pick1
Rnd1
Tyleik Williams
In pick 1 they get a load in the middle, though the board says they badly overpaid. The biggest hole, addressed.
Pick4
Rnd1
Will Johnson
In the Round 1 slot they get a press-man option on the boundary, though they paid up to get him. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick7
Rnd1
Emeka Egbuka
In No. 7 they get a home-run threat at receiver, a steep price for the projection. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Pick42
Rnd2
Derrick Harmon
They let Derrick Harmon come to them and pounced at Round 2, Pick 10. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick49
Rnd2
Jahdae Barron
Steal is underselling it; Jahdae Barron at slot 49 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick81
Rnd3
Colston Loveland
Circle this one: Colston Loveland at pick No. 81 is a fall that decides a draft. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick119
Rnd4
Maxwell Hairston
They barely believed it either: Maxwell Hairston still on the board at the 119th pick. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick126
Rnd4
Dylan Fairchild
They will replay Dylan Fairchild at the 126th overall pick for years; that is how good the value is. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Pick142
Rnd5
Ajani Cornelius
They reached into another round for Ajani Cornelius, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Pick193
Rnd6
Quinshon Judkins
Quinshon Judkins in the 193rd pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick217
Rnd7
Jeffrey Bassa
They robbed the room for Jeffrey Bassa here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It fills a real need, too.
Pick222
Rnd7
Desmond Watson
They went early on Desmond Watson in No. 222, and the value did not follow. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.