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Draft Selections
Xavier Legette Head Shot
PICK: 17 RND: 1 (CIN)
Xavier Legette
WR South Carolina
Jordan Morgan Head Shot
PICK: 49 RND: 2 (CIN)
Jordan Morgan
OT Arizona
D.J. James Head Shot
PICK: 81 RND: 3 (CIN)
D.J. James
CB Auburn
Jaheim Bell Head Shot
PICK: 117 RND: 4 (CIN)
Jaheim Bell
TE Florida State
Drake Nugent Head Shot
PICK: 154 RND: 5 (CIN)
Drake Nugent
C Michigan
Gabriel Murphy Head Shot
PICK: 173 RND: 5 (CIN)
Gabriel Murphy
DL-EDGE UCLA
Steve Linton Head Shot
PICK: 195 RND: 6 (CIN)
Steve Linton
LB-EDGE Texas Tech
Zy Alexander Head Shot
PICK: 238 RND: 7 (CIN)
Zy Alexander
CB LSU
De'Corian Clark Head Shot
PICK: 254 RND: 7 (CIN)
De'Corian Clark
WR UTSA
Draft Grade — Bengals
Overall B
ValueB NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
Grand theft in the Round 7 slot: the Bengals steal Clark and grade out a B.

The board owed the Bengals one, and it paid up: De'Corian Clark, the No. 173 name on the board, sitting there at slot 254 like a gift left on the doorstep. Solid and sensible more than spectacular: a B.

If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through interior defensive lineman. Reaching for Nugent left real value on the table behind him.

All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but interior defensive lineman.

Pick Analysis
Pick17 Rnd1 Xavier Legette
In pick No. 17 they get a true top target at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
Pick49 Rnd2 Jordan Morgan
A tidy little value on Jordan Morgan in slot 49, a step better than break-even. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Pick81 Rnd3 D.J. James
A market-rate cornerback, with the board and the slot shaking hands on D.J. James. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick117 Rnd4 Jaheim Bell
By-the-book stuff, Jaheim Bell at the 117th pick squarely in line with his ranking. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Pick154 Rnd5 Drake Nugent
They liked Drake Nugent enough to skip the value, taking him in Round 5, Pick 18. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick173 Rnd5 Gabriel Murphy
Nothing to complain about; Gabriel Murphy went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick195 Rnd6 Steve Linton
They let Steve Linton come to them and pounced at pick 195. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
Pick238 Rnd7 Zy Alexander
Zy Alexander at the 238th overall pick is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick254 Rnd7 De'Corian Clark
They robbed the room for De'Corian Clark here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.