{"id":817896,"date":"2026-03-17T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:04:15","slug":"things-break-terribly-for-bengals-in-new-mel-kiper-nfl-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817896\/","title":{"rendered":"Things break terribly for Bengals in new Mel Kiper NFL Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Even with Boye Mafe in the fold, the edge rush leaves a lot to be desired. But with Bain off the board, there isn\u2019t a pass rusher whose value fits here. The Bengals would have to reach for Missouri\u2019s Zion Young, Auburn\u2019s Keldric Faulk or Miami\u2019s Akheem Mesidor, and it\u2019s just too early for any of those guys. But Cincinnati was also one of four teams to give up more than 7 yards per opponent dropback in 2025, and it would love to have a true No. 1 corner. Delane can make plays on the ball (11 pass breakups, two interceptions last season) in either man or zone coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with Boye Mafe in the fold, the edge rush leaves a lot to be desired. But with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39983,38367,1561,7,6],"class_list":["post-817896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-cincinnati-bengals-draft","tag-cincinnati-bengals-mock-drafts","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116246784510433600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817896","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=817896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}