In the first round, Yates had the Bengals going with LSU corner Mansoor Delane. Delane is fresh off running a 4.35 40-yard dash at the LSU Pro Day. In this mock draft scenario that played out, it is easy to argue Delane would be the best available player left on the board for Cincinnati to take.<\/p>\n
Some of the most frequently mocked players at pick 10 were gone, including Sonny Styles, Caleb Downs, David Bailey, and Rueben Bain. Corner is a premium position, so it is hard to argue with taking the consensus top player at the position here.<\/p>\n
Anthony Hill Jr. was the Bengals\u2019 selection during the second round of this mock draft. I think this is another pick that could actually happen next month. Al Golden tried to have Demetrius Knight Jr. kick down on the line last year as an extra pass rusher, and that just isn\u2019t who he is as a player.<\/p>\n
That isn\u2019t the case with Hill, who is very effective coming off the edge as a pass rusher, as evidenced by his 17 sacks in three seasons with the Longhorns.<\/p>\n
While these two names might not be the flashiest selections, they actually make a lot of sense for what the Bengals might actually do on draft day. I personally won\u2019t be upset about adding a couple more top-50 talents to the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first round, Yates had the Bengals going with LSU corner Mansoor Delane. Delane is fresh off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,39983,38367,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-831483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-draft","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-mock-drafts","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116285764657914661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831483","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=831483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}