Bengals Add Defense

[Whatever]

(11-25-2024, 09:38 AM)kevin Wrote: First, I know Boyd has been gone.  I'm saying that if Higgins goes also, that is a problem.  Chase needs locked in long term.  Burrow needs more pass targets.  So I would not say a WR is low on the needs list in the 2025 draft, just the opposite.  Bengals better be bringing in a top rookie WR early in the draft so that Burrow has pass catchers to go back to Super Bowl.

But my post is Round One Defense is possible.  I have no College Favorites of Rah, Rah, Sis, Boom, Bah.  I'm looking at CBS Top Prospects and who is on the list from #1 to #20.   Mostly #10 to #20.   CBS has the Kentucky DT, the Georgia Safety and the Texas A &M Edge Rusher of true D Lineman Size.  Now the DT is in CBS top 10.  The Safety and Edge Rusher are in the Top 20.  So Bengals could be getting much needed Defensive help.  

However let's not kid ourselves that WR is not needed in 2025 draft.  Bengals could use a top WR rookie early in the draft also.  I've seen this team when they were a one trick pony with Chad or AJ Green and they were double and triple teamed and the team was awful.  This team went Super Bowl in 2021 season because they had all those top WR's for Burrow to throw to, not a one trick pony.  College Ball you might win with just one good WR, but not in the NFL. So in one of the early rounds, a WR. 

The thing that gives me pause about defense in the first is that out of 10 Days 1/2 picks over the last three drafts, 8 have been on defense.  Throwing premium draft capital at the defense has not worked.  Almost to a man, those picks have underperformed, for a variety of reasons.  

Realistically, the Bengals are at a point where they need to figure out what's broken, Lou's scheme or their ability to draft defensive players.  The only way you're finding that out is to get rid of Lou and see if the loads of young talent we have on defense responds.  

Obviously, we need pass rush help, but it's a deep class for Edge rushers and DT's.  Per the Consensus Big Board, there are currently 9 Edge's in the Top 50 prospects and 16 in the Top 100.  For DT's, there's 7 in the Top 50 and 13 in the Top 100.  

Whoever we take in the 1st, they need to be a stud.  Especially with us currently picking 10th, we need a slam dunk, no matter the position.  Regardless of needs, a CeeDee Lamb, Travis Kelce, Joe Thuney, or Saquon Barkley helps this team a helluva lot more than another Myles Murphy.