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    Bengals
Draft Selections
Walter Nolen Head Shot
PICK: 24 RND: 1 (CIN)
Walter Nolen
DT Ole Miss
Xavier Watts Head Shot
PICK: 49 RND: 2 (CIN)
Xavier Watts
S Notre Dame
Tate Ratledge Head Shot
PICK: 81 RND: 3 (CIN)
Tate Ratledge
OG Georgia
Jordan Burch Head Shot
PICK: 97 RND: 3 (CIN)
Jordan Burch
DE-EDGE Oregon
Ashton Gillotte Head Shot
PICK: 117 RND: 4 (CIN)
Ashton Gillotte
DE-EDGE Louisville
Jake Majors Head Shot
PICK: 119 RND: 4 (CIN)
Jake Majors
C Texas
Jeffrey Bassa Head Shot
PICK: 151 RND: 5 (CIN)
Jeffrey Bassa
LB Oregon
Jacob Parrish Head Shot
PICK: 153 RND: 5 (CIN)
Jacob Parrish
CB Kansas State
Tory Horton Head Shot
PICK: 189 RND: 6 (CIN)
Tory Horton
WR Colorado State
Terrance Ferguson Head Shot
PICK: 193 RND: 6 (CIN)
Terrance Ferguson
TE Oregon
Phil Mafah Head Shot
PICK: 232 RND: 7 (CIN)
Phil Mafah
RB Clemson
Draft Picks Received
Walter Nolen Head Shot
PICK: 24 RND: 1 (MIN)
Walter Nolen
DT Ole Miss
Jordan Burch Head Shot
PICK: 97 RND: 3 (MIN)
Jordan Burch
DE-EDGE Oregon
Ashton Gillotte Head Shot
PICK: 117 RND: 4 (IND)
Ashton Gillotte
DE-EDGE Louisville
Jeffrey Bassa Head Shot
PICK: 151 RND: 5 (IND)
Jeffrey Bassa
LB Oregon
Tory Horton Head Shot
PICK: 189 RND: 6 (IND)
Tory Horton
WR Colorado State
Phil Mafah Head Shot
PICK: 232 RND: 7 (IND)
Phil Mafah
RB Clemson
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 2 (MIN)
NEXT YEAR (2026)
 
Draft Picks Traded
Ashton Jeanty Head Shot
PICK: 17 RND: 1 (MIN)
Ashton Jeanty
RB Boise State
Players Gained
Head Shot
Jonathan Allen
DT
Players traded away
Head Shot
Germaine Pratt
LB
Draft Grade — Bengals
Overall B
ValueB+ NeedB TradesB FutureB
The Bengals let Horton fall and pounced. Final grade: B.

The rest of the league will want that one back. Tory Horton tumbling to the Bengals in pick 189 is a gift they did not have to think twice about. The bottom line is a respectable B.

With quarterback unsolved, spending premium capital on edge rusher is the choice that costs them. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up. Jonathan Allen gives the group a proven body among the projects.

On the needs board they went 7 of 8, with cornerback the one that mattered most.

Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick24 Rnd1 Walter Nolen
In pick No. 24 they get a pocket-collapsing interior rusher. The biggest hole, addressed.
Pick49 Rnd2 Xavier Watts
Fair-plus on Xavier Watts, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick81 Rnd3 Tate Ratledge
A tidy bit of business in Round 3, Pick 17, where Tate Ratledge graded well above the range. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick97 Rnd3 Jordan Burch
A clean, defensible pick in pick 97 with a little surplus value in Jordan Burch. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Pick117 Rnd4 Ashton Gillotte
Hard to square with the roster. With positions of obvious need still on the board, Ashton Gillotte adds an edge rusher and leaves quarterback untouched.
Pick119 Rnd4 Jake Majors
A slide stopped in slot 119, with Jake Majors worth more than the price. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick151 Rnd5 Jeffrey Bassa
Somehow Jeffrey Bassa was still sitting there in No. 151, and they pounced on premier linebacker value. It fills a real need, too.
Pick153 Rnd5 Jacob Parrish
The board fumbled Jacob Parrish all the way to the Round 5 slot, and they scooped it up. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick189 Rnd6 Tory Horton
Taking Tory Horton in pick No. 189 is close to grand larceny; a wide receiver that good had no business lasting this long. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick193 Rnd6 Terrance Ferguson
Terrance Ferguson at the Round 6 slot is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick232 Rnd7 Phil Mafah
Phil Mafah at the 232nd overall pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.