For all the boxes ticked, the Bengals skipped the loudest one: cornerback is exactly as bare as it was. It lands right in the middle: a C+, no more, no less.

If Green pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. Building through the lines is a philosophy, and they stuck to it.

If Mike Green and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.