{"id":849650,"date":"2026-04-02T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849650\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:09:23","slug":"bengals-2026-mock-draft-roundup-10-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849650\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals 2026 Mock Draft Roundup 10.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n S Caleb Downs, Ohio State<\/p>\n

Jordan Plocher – Pro Football Focus<\/a><\/p>\n

“Downs is a smart player who started for three seasons, and his lowest season-long PFF overall grade was an excellent 85.6 mark as a freshman.”<\/p>\n

“The Ohio State safety is a versatile, high-IQ tone-setter who can help stabilize the secondary on a unit that badly needs more playmaking.”<\/p>\n

Ryan Moran – Pro Football Network<\/a><\/p>\n

“He earned unanimous All-American honors in each of the past two seasons. With his elite instincts, Downs has the versatility to align at a handful of positions on the defense for the Bengals.”<\/p>\n

“With Downs patrolling the secondary, Cincinnati won’t give up nearly as many big plays though the air.”<\/p>\n

Bruce Feldman – The Athletic<\/a><\/p>\n

“My gut tells me that it’d be really hard for Cincinnati to pass on a star player from Ohio State who has excelled in a lot of big games and has a winning pedigree to go with off-the-charts football intelligence… Some scouts we’ve spoken to say the 6-0, 206-pound Downs reminds them of a bigger version of Budda Baker. That’s high praise. Baker, a former second-rounder, has been to eight Pro Bowls in his nine-year career.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S Caleb Downs, Ohio State Jordan Plocher – Pro Football Focus “Downs is a smart player who started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[107325,4955,228,443,227,256,2296,7,81,898,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-849650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-2026-mocks","9":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-centerpiece","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-stories","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336221580238195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849650","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=849650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}