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* If the Bengals trade up it needs to be for Alt, Nabers, or Bowers ... Potential franchise game changers. 🤨

... Imagine the Bengals trade up with Bowers on the board and the draft party at Paycor goes wild and starts chanting "Bow errs, Bow errs!" and then they read "JC Latham" off the card. 🫠💀

I think Verse and maybe Latu will go before pick 18.

That comes from the player's agent. Same thing with the claim that Mims and Thomas are moving up team's boards.

1 Mims is fine 2 Hall would be a poor pick for the Bengals. We'd still need a NT and don't need to use such an early pick to replace Carter 3A Leggette will probably go before 80 and that's good for the Bengals. He's as much RB as WR and not very polished. 3B Pretty early for Johnson. He's a good athlete but not a good TE. 4 Ok but I'd swap your 4th and 5th rounders. Sweat is the best NT while there are more RB options if Audric is picked by 149.

Bowers, Q Mitchell, Arnold, Thomas, Mims, Fuaga, Fautanu Maybe JPJ or DeJean

"The Bengals at No. 18 are also worth watching for a potential trade-up," Graziano wrote. "They like Alabama offensive tackle JC Latham a lot and could stand to bolster the line, but they may need to move up to get someone in that tier. Otherwise, watch for Cincinnati to bolster the interior of its defensive line following the offseason departure of defensive tackle DJ Reader via free agency."

Fuga, Fashanu, Mimms, Lathem, Fatanu. Bowers, Murphy. Come away with at least one of them. The "Ill be ok with" is Odunze, Arnold, and Thomas Jr

That's not a very attractive proposal for the county. The team wants the county to pick up 86% of their requested improvements in exchange for a 5 year lease extension. No word on whether the rent under the extension covers the county's operating costs. The county should remind the team that threats to move don't carry much weight. Under the Modell law the county can force a sale of the team to a local owner with the price either set by negotiation or if that fails by a jury via the standard eminent domain process.

This news could possibly cause Thomas to slide out of the top 20.

Saw somewhere on X (Dan Graziano of NFLN, maybe) that the Bengals are aggressively trying to move up in round 1. This is lying season... would understand it if true, but still wouldn't expect it to happen. Especially for a T since they have Brown x 2.

We have a pair of good 3Ts with Rankins and Hill. We don't have a good NT at present. The top DTs in this draft (Newton, Murphy, and Fiske) are 3Ts and wouldn't make sense for the Bengals, unless Anarumo plans to change his scheme. We can get a NT in round 3 or later. So D-line shouldn't be on the menu in round 1. I agree the Bengals don't need to trade up or reach for a player. There will be good ones on the board at 18 who can help the team. We don't know if Thomas can play the slot since he didn't need to in college. But we do need to replace Boyd's snaps as well as prepare for Tee's departure. There are more slot receiver types in this class than top outside receivers. We can get by for a year without drafting a receiver at all. Gesicki, Jones, Irwin, and Iosivas can cover Boyd's snaps. But Tee has missed a lot of time himself, never playing more than 800 snaps in a season. We don't seem to be close to extending Tee and if we are open to trading him, then drafting Thomas would make a lot of sense. Even with all 3 of Chase, Higgins, and Thomas on the roster, we'd be in good shape weapons wise. Thomas would certainly be the 3rd best WR on the roster and would play ahead of Irwin or Iosivas. Tee wouldn't be good in the slot and Thomas might not thrive there. But Chase certainly can play there a dozen snaps a game. So that rules out D-line or O-line. Unless you think Barton will beat out Volson or Latham or Mims as a rookie will beat out a healthy Trent Brown. Taking a DE would be awful. It would be doubling down on last year's mistake, we we drafted Murphy even though our top 5 DEs were under contract. Unsurprisingly, he didn't play much or have an impact. Let's not be stuck on stupid.

Heard something yesterday in relation to Mims, don’t know how true it is: guys with his low fat body type at OT tend to be injured often. The example given was Mekhi Becton.

If Mims had to start right away I might be less inclined, but he will have some time to be developed and polished.

Legette claims Carolina has told him they plan to select him at pick 33. That would be the Panthers first pick in this year's draft., the top pick in the 2nd round.

Wow, I'll bet Cordell is doing cartwheels. (?)

Not a huge (no pun intented) Mims fan, and I think Leggette will be gone before then. I like Hall a lot, and he's young. Like the others - Theo is underrated.

Who are your options in Rd 1? Last year I compiled it and will do the same. Give me your list by midnight Below was last years. Hilariously.....we didn't have Murphy. MW Soundstreamer Jamie B BlackJesus Mem Dex Sparky TE-Michael Mayer-ND 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 CB-Emmanuel Forbes-Miss St 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 CB-Deontae Banks-Maryland 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 T-Darnell Wright-Tennessee 5 1 1 1 1 1 DT-Calijah Kancey-Pitt 5 1 1 1 1 1 RB-Jahmyr Gibbs-Alabama 4 1 1 1 1 RB-Bijan Robinson-Texas 3 1 1 1 DT-Bryan Breese-Clemson 3 1 1 1 T-Dawand Jones-Ohio St 3 1 1 1 TE-Dalton Kincaid-Utah 3 1 1 1 CB-Joey Porter Jr-Penn St 2 1 1 TE-Darnell Washington-Georgia 2 1 1 WR-Jaxon Smith-Ngiba 2 1 1 DT-Mazi Smith-Michigan 1 1 G-O'Cyrus Torrence-Florida 1 1 T-Broderick Jones-Georgia 1 1 CB-Julius Brents 1 1

Requires a couple of slides but nothing ridiculous. 1.Mims. Love his size and upside 2.Hall. Young. Long. Fast. Nickname Little Aaron at OSU 3. Xavier Leggette 3. Theo Johnson. Developmental guy with athletic upside. 4. Audric Esteme 5. T’vondre Sweat would they take him if he fell this far? Clearly the best NT in this draft.

Breer: At any rate, if the Chargers and Tennessee Titans stay at 5 and 7, my money would be on one of them getting Alt and the other getting Latham.

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