{"id":869012,"date":"2026-04-18T08:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:39:14","slug":"bengals-draft-target-jermod-mccoy-reportedly-has-a-huge-red-flag-ahead-of-the-nfl-draft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869012\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals draft target Jermod McCoy reportedly has a huge red flag ahead of the NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 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

McCoy missed all of the 2025 season with a torn ACL. After what happened with Shemar Stewart<\/a> in 2025, not to mention the busts that Cedric Ogbuehi<\/a> 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

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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

Tony Pauline\u00a0of Essentially Sports wrote the following about McCoy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\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

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

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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

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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,60741,227,256,2296,6492,19,7,7489,6,996,69,1496,1541,3081],"class_list":{"0":"post-869012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cedric-ogbuehi","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-columbus","14":"tag-draft","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-jermod-mccoy","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","20":"tag-shemar-stewart","21":"tag-tennessee-volunteers","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116424816432895242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869012","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=869012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}