Welcome Kris Jenkins

[Bengal Dude]

(05-02-2024, 12:21 AM)CJD Wrote: I've sat on this pick for a few days now and it's still nagging at me. I hear he is a good value at the pick by draft evaluators...

But I don't really see the point in a 295 lb 3T who isn't an elite penetrating pass rusher, but maybe Jenkins will prove me wrong.

I think we should have traded up for Newton, but I get that Duke hates giving away picks.

I'm really excited to be proven wrong and his run stopping ability holds up in the NFL despite him being undersized and he develops into a great pass rusher, but I think there were probably better players available at 49.

From some of the things that came out, it sounded like the Bengals were content to sit at 49 and hope that Newton would fall to them. I was listening to Mike Potts on multiple podcasts and Hoard mentioned that the Falcons were interested in trading up to 18 if Laiatu Latu fell to 18. We would've gone all the way back to 35, but we would've gotten their 2025 1st round pick. I have to believe Newton would've been the pick for us at 35 had all of this happened.