{"id":869649,"date":"2026-04-19T05:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869649\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:16:59","slug":"bengals-trade-of-first-rounder-leaves-team-with-seven-nfl-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869649\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals’ trade of first-rounder leaves team with seven NFL draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> traded their first-round pick<\/a> (10th overall) in the 2026 NFL Draft to the New York Giants<\/a> for three-time Pro Bowler Dexter Lawrence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barring another trade<\/a>, the Bengals won’t make a first-round pick in the draft for the first time since 1989, and just the second time in franchise history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In 1989, the Bengals traded their first-round slot to Atlanta<\/a> for the Falcons’ picks in the second, fourth and 10th rounds.<\/p>\n

“This maintains my image of being cheap,” then-Bengals owner and president Paul Brown said with a laugh, per UPI’s Rick Van Sant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bengals had encountered issues with signing first-round picks in previous drafts.<\/p>\n

The Lawrence trade is the first time the Bengals have traded a first-round pick for a current player.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported April 18<\/a> the Lawrence trade is the first time in the common draft era (dating back to 1966) in which the Bengals have traded a Top-10 pick for a player.<\/p>\n

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Schefter also reported via Twitter\/X<\/a> that it’s the first time any NFL player has been traded without any additional compensation for a haul that included a Top-10 pick in that year’s draft since the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> traded Randy Moss to the Raiders<\/a> in 2005 for a package that included the 7th overall pick in the 2005 draft.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Bengals’ 2026 NFL Draft picks<\/p>\n

Round 2: Pick 41<\/p>\n

Round 3: Pick 72<\/p>\n

Round 4: Pick 110<\/p>\n

Round 6: Pick 189<\/p>\n

Round 6: Pick 199<\/p>\n

Round 7: Pick 221<\/p>\n

Round 7: Pick 226<\/p>\n

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When Paul Brown traded the Bengals’ first-round pick in 1989, the team had struggled to sign its first-round selections of previous years.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Bengals’ trade of first-rounder leaves team with seven NFL draft picks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals traded their first-round pick (10th overall) in the 2026 NFL Draft to the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4955,223,256,7,259,56,6,15,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-869649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-draft","16":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116429681617649166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869649","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=869649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}