{"id":868943,"date":"2026-04-18T06:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:27:20","slug":"bengals-draft-target-jermod-mccoy-reportedly-has-a-huge-red-flag-ahead-of-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868943\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals draft target Jermod McCoy reportedly has a huge red flag ahead of the NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> in desperate need of knocking this No. 10 pick out of the park next Thursday, one would think they cannot afford to take a risk as big as drafting Tennessee cornerback Jermod McCoy in Round 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McCoy missed all of the 2025 season with a torn ACL. After what happened with Shemar Stewart in 2025, not to mention the busts that Cedric Ogbuehi and John Ross turned into after tearing their ACLs in college, the Bengals can\u2019t take a risk and draft McCoy at No. 10, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As if the risk wasn\u2019t already high enough, we\u2019ve now got a report of a potential issue with McCoy\u2019s knee ahead of next week\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m told that red flags were raised after teams deemed McCoy\u2019s knee to be a degenerative condition. But, of course, medical opinions differ team by team since there is no central body to govern a physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, the Bengals did draft Ja\u2019Marr Chase after he didn\u2019t play in 2020 due to opting out with COVID-19 heavily impacting the college football season. But that\u2019s different. Chase was healthy. He just didn\u2019t want to play with COVID-19 casting a dark cloud over the entire country. That pick has turned out to be great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is different. We\u2019re talking about a player coming off a torn ACL. And the Bengals have drafted players like this before, and most of them turned out disastrous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As devastating an injury as a player can possibly have. McCoy may turn out to be a great player, and that\u2019s great for him. But there\u2019s too much uncertainty and too much of a risk for the Bengals to draft him. If they had made the playoffs even two of the last three seasons with a good defense, they would have the benefit of the doubt, from me at least, to take a risk on drafting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bengals aren\u2019t in that position. They need to take a proven, injury-free player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Cincinnati Bengals in desperate need of knocking this No. 10 pick out of the park next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,39983,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-868943","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-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116424293813746943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868943","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=868943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}