Cincy Bengals Talk - Top Defensive Players Bengals Could Target

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(04-07-2025, 03:39 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I get the Emmanwori love and Like I said in another thread I'm not gonna be major league mad if we take him @ 17, butt....

I still strongly feel we need Dline help the worst of all. Let's just pretend for this argument we actually get Trey back at RDE, but what do we have besides him?

Sure, Murphy was a 1st round pick but he's leaning hard towards bad pick if not full blown bust! Ossai is not gonna be more than a 10-15 snap a game rotational type. Cam Sample has flashed a couple times but he's gonna be a 5th year player with little to nothing besides hope. The rest of the DE's ummm....

Now DT's we have a solid B.J. Hill and two hopeful 2nd year players. They did next to nothing until the last 5 games of the season against bad teams. I'm not willing to put all my eggs in the basket of "they'll be better this year".

In my mind two of our top 3 picks need to be Dline! We could have the best DB room in the NFL and still suffer if opposing QB's have 6-8 seconds to throw the ball.

Rant off

While I get where you're coming from, I will say there are a few good safety prospects in this draft class but it seems to fall off a cliff after, whereas with DL there's much more talent in Rds 3-5, so I'm ok waiting.

I'm also ok potentially just either getting a depth safety late this year or holding off completely this year and seeing how Stone and Battle fare.
I don't see safety as an urgent need that they can't get someone early next year once Stone (likely) departs.