What Would Your Draft Have Been?

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(05-02-2025, 03:14 PM)Synric Wrote: I doubt the Bengals use 4 stack linebackers in 34 fronts. I think people are misunderstanding sounds like they want to use Barrett Carter as a special teams guy and rotate him into the defense. Oren Burks may only rotate in with Knight in coverage situations and they Wilson, Knight, Carter in Base 43 fronts.

I doubt they would as well.

Marvin would use 4 LBs back in the day but rotate out the SAM for someone better in coverage on 3rd down.

If Bengals predominantly moved to a 3-4, I'd guess it'd be Slaton at NT, Hill and...Jenkins? at DE, and Hendrickson and Ossai at OLB rushing the passer.
And then ILBs would be Wilson and probably Burks.

I am just curious how they end up using everyone because they invested in two LBs in the first four rounds.
That's a lot of draft capital to put toward a position, especially when they had so many other needs.
They obviously won't keep Pratt beyond this year, but still they got Wilson, Burks, and now Knight for 2026. Did they really need to get Carter? Rd 4 feels early for a depth guy.
Maybe the long-term plan is for Carter to develop enough to take over for Burks as LB3 in 2027.