Michael Mayer Falls To 26 In Latest PFF Mock!

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(02-06-2023, 08:32 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Bengals are about to have some big money occupied by Burrow, Chase, and company.
So it becomes critical to find upgrades on cheaper contracts via FA and/or draft picks.
As such, the Bengals need to get guys in the draft who can contribute as much as possible on rookie deals.
So I like to target guys in the early rounds who either have a spot to start as rookies or have a vet in front of them that will be potentially departing in FA after a year or so.

Luckily, this is the case in quite a few positions for the Bengals:
- WR (Higgins and/or Boyd)
- RB (Mixon)
- OT (Williams, Collins?)
- TE (Hurst)
- DE (Hendrickson)
- DT (Reader)
- LB (Pratt, Wilson)
- CB (Awuzie)
- Safety (Bates/Bell - I expect Hill will take one of the spots)

FA this March will knock some of these positions off the list, more easily showing where the Bengals might address the early rounds of the draft.

Luckily, we already have depth pieces for LB and Edge (ADG and Ossai) so they aren't absolute musts this draft. 

Bad top end WR talent means we may get depth players we like.

It's feeling like this draft is just imperative we get OL, DT (some nice NTs here), TE and RB (only if we cut Mixon or don't bring back Perine). If we can fill other spots, good. If not, we will revisit those spots in 2024. Hell, maybe we get another Chido/Bell in FA for lower than we expect.