Grade The Bengals Draft Of 2021

[Nicomo Cosca]

I gave it a B+. Probably would have bumped it up to an A- if we could have grabbed one more WR in the mid-late rounds, but they didn’t really make any head scratchers with all those picks either. Obviously Chase is the biggest addition, but that trade back also ended up working out pretty well. We still got a day one starting OG (who some scouts had as the 2nd best OG prospect in the draft after AVT), but also added a couple nice pieces on the other line. I’m seeing a lot of positive reactions to that Cameron Sample pick.

Ossai seems to be our consensus best pick after Chase. Not much needs to be said there. I loved taking the kicker out of Florida. That’s the kind of move you can make when you have 3 extra picks. And Simmons has already basically said the job is his. We got a couple nice developmental OL picks with Smith and Hill. We got the RB with the highest RAS in the draft to give us some more depth there.

Overall I’m pretty happy with this draft.