B
Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals won the night they stopped Ramsey from sliding. Grade: B.
by Steyker ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 8 steals
· 1 reaches
The board owed the Bengals one, and it paid up: Kamari Ramsey, the No. 74 name on the board, sitting there at No. 110 like a gift left on the doorstep. A dependable weekend that grades out a B.
They are betting Kamara proves the room right and everyone else wrong. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In No. 16 they get a coverage-and-run second-level piece, outstanding value to boot.
Chris Johnson at pick No. 41 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Somehow Christen Miller was still sitting there in the Round 3 slot, and they pounced on premier interior defensive lineman value. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
You do not let a safety like Kamari Ramsey reach the 110th pick and blink. They did not. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Mikail Kamara at the 120th overall pick is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
J.C. Davis at pick 140 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. It fills a real need, too.
A tidy little value on Aaron Anderson in slot 179, a step better than break-even. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Nice patience on Dae'Quan Wright, who had no business lasting to Round 6, Pick 8. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Jeff Caldwell at the 199th overall pick. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A quiet steal in No. 221: Kaelon Black for less than the market said. The roster fit checks out.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Thaddeus Dixon in pick 226. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.