{"id":857088,"date":"2026-04-06T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:02:18","slug":"bengals-make-big-board-reaches-all-over-5-round-2026-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857088\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Make Big Board Reaches All Over 5-Round 2026 Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL.com’s Chad Reuter released a five-round mock draft over the weekend and had plenty of interesting picks for\u00a0the Bengals<\/a>\u00a0to mull over.<\/p>\n

Things started\u00a0for Cincinnati<\/a>\u00a0at Pick 10 by selecting Tennessee cornerback Jerod McCoy. <\/p>\n

“McCoy’s\u00a0excellent pro day\u00a0shut down any questions about his health or athleticism.\u00a0\ufeffDax Hill\ufeff and\u00a0\ufeffDJ Turner II\ufeff\u00a0are free agents after this season, and McCoy’s presence would allow Hill to play in the slot, creating a strong secondary able to give pass rushers more time to find quarterbacks in the backfield,” Reuter wrote.<\/p>\n

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McCoy is ranked 15th on the Mock Draft Database’s consensus big board and second among cornerbacks behind LSU’s Mansoor Delane. McCoy was the first of four consecutive reaches when judging off this big board.<\/p>\n

Pick List\"Feb<\/p>\n

Feb 27, 2026; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers (TE25) during the NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Check out the rest of the picks below and their big board ranking:<\/p>\n

Pick 41:\u00a0Eli Stowers, Vanderbilt TE –\u00a052nd on the big board<\/p>\n

Pick 72:\u00a0Darrell Jackson Jr., Florida State DE –\u00a089th<\/p>\n

Pick 110:\u00a0Robert Spears-Jennings, Oklahoma S –\u00a0230th<\/p>\n

The Bengals do not have a fifth-round pick as of this writing, so\u00a0the\u00a0selections\u00a0for them\u00a0end at Pick 110.<\/p>\n

It’s a heavy defensive draft haul as projected throughout this cycle.<\/p>\n

Defensive coordinator Al Golden should get plenty of new pieces to work with over the next few months of the offseason.<\/p>\n

“My biggest thing is consistency. These guys are grown men,” Golden said at the 2026 NFL Combine. “Just be honest and at least try to relate to the best of each one of them, their best version, and they responded. There was a\u00a0little bit of a leadership vacuum. Trey (Hendrickson) wasn’t there, and Logan (Wilson) was in Dallas, so a lot of guys stepped up during that bye week, that break. There was a changing of the guard, if you will. It started with those guys in the locker room and the will to get better. To do that, you have to be honest, starting with me.\u00a0What\u00a0do\u00a0we\u00a0need to\u00a0do better?\u00a0What is the direction we have to go? Just the growth of the linebackers and all that started to come to fruition shortly after that.”<\/p>\n

Check out the full mock draft from Reuter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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