Best Worst Case Scenario

[NATI BENGALS]

Worst Case Scenario being we don't trade back, make no moves, and just take what falls to us at our six picks.
   

17. Booker turns 21 tomorrow. He was built to play guard. He seems like one of the safest picks in the draft to me. We are paying huge money to our offensive stars, I think it would be smart to protect our investment. Adding a monster blue chip G who might end up being a 10 year fixture sounds like a good choice.

 49. Watts was the winner of the Bronko Nagurski as college footballs best defensive player in 23 and if we reunite him with his college DC I think he has the most potential of any safety in this draft to hit the ground running and help us out immediately this year and into the future. 

81. Oladejo made an in season position switch from LB to DE in his final college season. Our boy Hubbard did some position switching before settling in at DE. Oladejo looks like he is just scratching the surface as a pass rusher. 

119. Robinson being our 5th DT sounds insane to me. DT will become a major strength this year. I wouldn't mind seeing him be a designated passing down DT. Between him and Oladejo I think our pass rush would be adding some much needed juice.

153. Gordon was the Doak Walker award winner in 23 as college footballs best RB. True junior. Turned 21 this year. If given the opportunity I think he has the potential to be a big time bell cow back. Pairing him with Chase would make me feel a whole lot better about our RB depth.

193. Travis is enormous. Not happy to be looking for our swing tackle this late but I think we have to bring in competition for the spot. There are a lot of giant OL with intriguing rare physical tools who are loaded with potential that could be available late in this draft. One of them is going to slide. Maybe Travis could pull a Mekhi Becton and play RG with his giant ass.
 
 

Offense = 25

QB (2): Burrow, Browning
RB (3): Brown, Gordon*, Perine
WR (6): Chase, Higgins, Iosivas, Jones, Williams, Burton
TE (4): Gesicki, Sample, McLachlan, Hudson/Grandy
OT (4): Brown, Mims, Travis*, Kirkland/Stueber
G (4): Booker*, Ford, Patrick, Volson
C (2): Karras, Lee
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Defense = 25
DE (5): Hendrickson, Ossai, Murphy, Johnson, Oladejo*
DT (5): Hill, Slaton, Jenkins, Jackson, Robinson*
LB (4): Wilson, Pratt, Burks, Njongmeta
CB (6): CTB, Hill, Turner, Newton, Ivey, Wilson
S (5): Stone, Battle, Watts*, Anderson, Anthony
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Special Teams = 3
PK: McPherson
P: Rehkow
LS: Adomitis

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

I can think of 5 draft scenarios. I will rank them by preference.

1) Catch a Falling Star.

One of the legit top guys falls to us and we take him: Walker, Warren, W. Campbell, Membou, Jeanty, or W. Johnson are in that category for me. Not bloody likely, but not impossible. 

2) Trade back and still get a good player at a position of need. 

Emmanwori, Starks, Zabel, Jackson, Booker, Harmon, Nolen, Grant, and Green is the list for me. Though Loveland or Barron would also work. Maybe Ezeiruaku.

Still, given the thin,-at-the-top but deep-in-the-middle nature of the draft, I think it unlikely we find a trade back scenario.

3) Stay put and get a good player at an area of need. 

See above list. 

4) Off the reservation: with trade back. 

We trade back, but then whiff on the above guys or make a riskier/flag laden pick or one at a lesser area of need: Stewart, M. Williams, Pearce, an OT conversion, Hampton, a WR, etc. 

5) Off the Reservation: staying put edition. 

[lone bengal]

My best case scenario would be to find two players who can contribute right away and have an impact whether as a starter or role player. We have too many questions marks on the roster that we didn't address in FA. Maybe we can find a starter at guard, a safety who could start or rotate in on three safety looks, same goes for linebacker. It's a deep DL class maybe we find a 3-tech or edge who could rotate in and provide a pass rush. The Eagles drafted Quinyon Mitchell 22nd overall and Copper Dejan 40th overall who both started and had big impacts as rookies. The Rams drafted Jared Verse 19th overall and Braden Fiske 39th overall both huge contributors. We had a solid rookie class as well Mims started day one and looked good. Eric Alt was playing well before the injury and Jenkins did decent at times.

[007BengalsFan]

Best case scenerio would be to trade back to later in the 1st round, get an additional 2nd round pick, still get one of the guys we targeted in the 1st plus get 2 contributors in the 2nd round. I like trading back in this draft if we can pick up an additional 2nd round pick