{"id":177467,"date":"2025-07-03T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/177467\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:41:08","slug":"bengals-stumble-in-win-now-mock-draft-project-miss-joe-burrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/177467\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals stumble in \u2018win now\u2019 mock draft project, miss Joe Burrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> struggle in a new type of mock draft that emphasizes re-drafting the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bengals<\/a> understandably miss on Joe Burrow, who goes fourth overall to the New England Patriots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the mock draft from NFL.com\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/seven-round-nfl-mock-draft-round-1-building-a-win-now-team-from-active-players-for-2025-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Reuter<\/a>, the Bengals are then forced to go with C.J. Stroud at No. 17:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStroud took a step back statistically in 2024, but he still possesses the pocket presence to be a very good starter for the Bengals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/06\/30\/cincinnati-bengals-53-man-roster-projection-2025-offseason\/84413992007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; 53-man roster projection following 2025 offseason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sitting 17th overall and landing a former No. 2 overall pick from the 2023 draft isn\u2019t a bad deal, though. Stroud seemed to \u201cregress\u201d with a bit of a sophomore slump last year, yet still completes 63.5 percent of his passes with 43 touchdowns against 17 interceptions. He\u2019s just 23, too, while Burrow is 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, it\u2019s a fun little what if? Project in early June that doubles as a projection for how individual players will perform in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for the Bengals, Burrow is fourth overall and in real life, he\u2019s their quarterback.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/07\/01\/bengals-joe-burrow-feelings-trey-hendrickson-contract-standoff-revealed\/84428163007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Burrow feelings on Trey Hendrickson contract standoff revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals struggle in a new type of mock draft that emphasizes re-drafting the NFL.\u00a0 There, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[247,265,228,1574,1456,1028,227,256,2296,7,2341,20842,1573,1577,246,88,6,35196,245,264,9,266,1457,2340,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-177467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-burrow","12":"tag-c-j","13":"tag-c-j-stroud","14":"tag-cincinnati","15":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","16":"tag-cincinnatibengals","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-hendrickson","19":"tag-hub","20":"tag-joe","21":"tag-joe-burrow","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-hub","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-neutral","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-news","30":"tag-stroud","31":"tag-trey","32":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114787705688746397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}