If Fournette is there at #9, the Bengals Take Him

[Fan_in_Kettering]

(03-03-2017, 11:13 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Hard to say if this is a smokescreen or Guenther's comments about how pick #9 should be guaranteed a very good defensive player.
It makes me think the Fournette is a smokescreen and the Bengals either hope he's gone before pick #9 to have more defensive players fall or have teams looking to trade up to 9 for Fournette.

Based on comments from Paul Guenther and Duke Tobin, I believe Cincinnati is going defense in the first round of the 2017 draft. I look for the Bengals to take either Malik Hooker from Ohio State, Alabama defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick, or most likely Reuben Foster, the Alabama linebacker who was just sent home from the NFL Combine for arguing with hospital personnel. This incident might cause Foster to be selected later in the draft for less money which are two attractive qualities in Cincinnati.