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  • ,fyf DRAFTING FOR THE
    Bengals
Draft Selections
Xavier Legette Head Shot
PICK: 49 RND: 2 (CIN)
Xavier Legette
WR South Carolina
Blake Fisher Head Shot
PICK: 75 RND: 3 (CIN)
Blake Fisher
OT Notre Dame
Josh Newton Head Shot
PICK: 80 RND: 3 (CIN)
Josh Newton
CB TCU
Mohamed Kamara Head Shot
PICK: 115 RND: 4 (CIN)
Mohamed Kamara
DL-EDGE Colorado State
DeMonte Capehart Head Shot
PICK: 254 RND: 7 (CIN)
DeMonte Capehart
DT Clemson
Tanner McLachlan Head Shot
PICK: 256 RND: 7 (CIN)
Tanner McLachlan
TE Arizona
Draft Picks Received
Blake Fisher Head Shot
PICK: 75 RND: 3 (CHI)
Blake Fisher
OT Notre Dame
Tanner McLachlan Head Shot
PICK: 256 RND: 7 (NYJ)
Tanner McLachlan
TE Arizona
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 1 (CHI)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 2 (CHI)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 2 (WSH)
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Draft Picks Traded
Nate Wiggins Head Shot
PICK: 18 RND: 1 (CHI)
Nate Wiggins
CB Clemson
Austin Booker Head Shot
PICK: 151 RND: 5 (WSH)
Austin Booker
DE-EDGE Kansas
Jordan Jefferson Head Shot
PICK: 173 RND: 5 (WSH)
Jordan Jefferson
DT LSU
Kingsley Eguakun Head Shot
PICK: 196 RND: 6 (WSH)
Kingsley Eguakun
C Florida
Daequan Hardy Head Shot
PICK: 238 RND: 7 (NYJ)
Daequan Hardy
CB Penn State
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 4 (MIA)
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Players traded away
Head Shot
Tyler Boyd
WR
Draft Grade — Bengals
Overall C
ValueB- NeedB+ TradesF FutureA+
The Bengals lost the trade table, and the C tells the story.

The phones were a trap the Bengals kept walking into, shipping out surplus on nearly every deal.

The cost of the Fisher reach is exactly the players who went right after him. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through linebacker. Landing Legette that late papers over a lot of smaller sins.

It nets out as a middle-of-the-pack haul that neither helps nor hurts much.

Pick Analysis
Pick49 Rnd2 Xavier Legette
Xavier Legette is a better player than No. 49 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick75 Rnd3 Blake Fisher
A wild overpay on Blake Fisher in pick No. 75, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Pick80 Rnd3 Josh Newton
By-the-book stuff, Josh Newton at pick 80 squarely in line with his ranking. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick115 Rnd4 Mohamed Kamara
A straight-up fair deal on Mohamed Kamara at the 115th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick254 Rnd7 DeMonte Capehart
They reached into another round for DeMonte Capehart, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick256 Rnd7 Tanner McLachlan
Tanner McLachlan at the 256th pick is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.