Bengals mock draft from team’s website gets weird
The Bengals' website projects the team to take a gamble just like they did one year ago...after a trade.
The Cincinnati Bengals go all sorts of ways in mock drafts, which is fair more so this year than most others. Sitting at No. 10, it would be easy to see the Bengals taking the best player on their board when it comes to defenders.
But at the same time, they also figure to at least keep an open mind about possible trades, given the major gains to be made by a move down. What would be surprising, though, is if the Bengals traded down, but also got super risky with the pick they end up making. The Bengals manage to do just that during a new mock draft from Geoff Hobson of Bengals.
com, where they strike a trade down to No. 16 with the New York Jets. The Bengals cough up a fourth-rounder in the exchange, but add the No.
44 overall pick while moving down the six spots. Then they take Keldric Faulk. Hobson writes: “Yet Stewart flashed enough through his injury-laden rookie year to make the Bengals believe they've got a remarkably gifted big man who can consistently get to the quarterback.