Grade The Bengals Draft Of 2021

[shanebo]

Solid B from me. Love that they fortified the trenches. Love that they traded down in 2 after identifying Carman as their guy, recognizing that he would be there later. I think we got a couple of good players in the later rounds. Only real negative is that, if they had taken Sewell in 1 (biggest need, IMO), it would have opened up the draft, allowed them to take BPAs in the later rounds -- e.g., Ojulari in 2 to replace Lawson instead of Ossai in 3; Dyami Brown in 3, etc. But after going Chase, I'm relatively happy with how the rest of the draft played out.