{"id":678534,"date":"2026-01-15T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678534\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:21:17","slug":"bengals-get-some-bad-news-after-unexpected-nfl-draft-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678534\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals get some bad news after unexpected NFL draft update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 14, 2026, 4:05 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">From a <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> perspective, it\u2019s fun to watch mock drafts and overall NFL draft news right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Most of the time, anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> hold the 10th pick and sit in a position to get a blue-chip prospect, likely at a position of need, when they walk to the podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But this week, the Bengals\u2019 chances at really getting the top overall player on their board take a pretty big hit with <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nfl.com%2Fnews%2Foregon-qb-dante-moore-declines-to-enter-2026-nfl-draft-will-return-to-school&amp;xcust=SBEN&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fbengalswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fbengals%2F2026%2F01%2F14%2Fbengals-bad-news-unexpected-nfl-draft-update%2F88184014007%2F\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon quarterback Dante Moore announcing he\u2019s returning<\/a>, rather than entering the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/01\/09\/duke-tobin-anticipated-bengals-address-underwhelms\/88102883007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Tobin&#8217;s anticipated Bengals address underwhelms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Moore was almost guaranteed to come off the board before the Bengals pick, which would\u2019ve helped drive their targets down to them at No. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">There\u2019s still time for another quarterback to rise into the top 10 during the draft process. NFL teams do silly things for quarterbacks, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But right now? The more quarterbacks slated to go in the top 10, the better for the Bengals. And now a guaranteed one just left the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Keep in mind, too, that other teams know what the Bengals want. The defense is the problem. So, leapfrogging them in the order, especially when a team that needed a quarterback could now be looking to move down, seems possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Not the end of the world in mid-January, but one of those little things to keep in mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/01\/10\/bengals-free-agents-list-trey-hendrickson-joseph-ossai\/88110081007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals players slated to become free agents<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 14, 2026, 4:05 p.m. ET From a Cincinnati Bengals perspective, it\u2019s fun to watch mock drafts and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95913,95896,95888,95895,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-678534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115897675779784555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678534","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=678534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}