We tried to trade up in the 2nd Round for another offensive lineman

[THE PISTONS]

I'm pretty encouraged that they tried trading up for another offensive lineman. Why you ask? Well I didn't like the Hart signing and I thought Miller was underwhelming for the Bills and didn't see them as the answer.

Obviously after drafting Williams, ZT and the Bengals staff agree or they would have called it a day with Hart/Redmond/Hopkins as the primary backups and Miller starting and not worried about adding another lineman.

Extrapolating into this, I'm sure that they would have preferred better levels of free agents signed, but the Bengals management just doesn't roll that way. I find this to be a much better explanation than ZT and the staff loved Hart and Miller.