You can lose a draft before you make a pick. The Bengals did it at the trade table, overpaying to chase players the board did not price nearly as high. A weekend that fought the value and lost, hence the D.

Getting Moore where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class. Foster has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through linebacker.

They left with cornerback solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even, and linebacker is still a hole.