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Rome Odunze Head Shot
PICK: 17 RND: 1 (CIN)
Rome Odunze
WR Washington
Patrick Paul Head Shot
PICK: 49 RND: 2 (CIN)
Patrick Paul
OT Houston
Brandon Dorlus Head Shot
PICK: 81 RND: 3 (CIN)
Brandon Dorlus
DE-EDGE Oregon
Max Melton Head Shot
PICK: 117 RND: 4 (CIN)
Max Melton
CB Rutgers
Dallin Holker Head Shot
PICK: 154 RND: 5 (CIN)
Dallin Holker
TE Colorado State
Gabriel Murphy Head Shot
PICK: 173 RND: 5 (CIN)
Gabriel Murphy
DL-EDGE UCLA
Bru McCoy Head Shot
PICK: 195 RND: 6 (CIN)
Bru McCoy
WR Tennessee
Storm Duck Head Shot
PICK: 238 RND: 7 (CIN)
Storm Duck
CB Penn State
Layden Robinson Head Shot
PICK: 254 RND: 7 (CIN)
Layden Robinson
OG Texas A&M
Draft Grade — Bengals
Overall B
ValueB NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
The Bengals robbed the room for Dorlus. Final grade: B.

You build a draft on nights like this. Brandon Dorlus had no business being available in pick No. 81, and the Bengals did the only sane thing and turned in the card. It nets out to a B, which feels about right.

They covered a lot of ground and still skipped interior defensive lineman, which is a strange place to end up. The Robinson pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over. They left with cornerback solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

The offense got the lion's share of the attention.

Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick17 Rnd1 Rome Odunze
In Round 1, Pick 17 they get a go-to option on the outside. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Pick49 Rnd2 Patrick Paul
Patrick Paul at slot 49 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Pick81 Rnd3 Brandon Dorlus
They robbed the room for Brandon Dorlus here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick117 Rnd4 Max Melton
Circle this one: Max Melton at No. 117 is a fall that decides a draft. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick154 Rnd5 Dallin Holker
A straight-up fair deal on Dallin Holker at pick No. 154, value and slot in agreement. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick173 Rnd5 Gabriel Murphy
Value with a capital V on Gabriel Murphy in the Round 5 slot, a genuine coup. It is more luxury than necessity; they were already set here.
Pick195 Rnd6 Bru McCoy
A quiet steal in the 195th pick: Bru McCoy for less than the market said. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick238 Rnd7 Storm Duck
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Storm Duck at the 238th overall pick is the proof. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Pick254 Rnd7 Layden Robinson
They went early on Layden Robinson in No. 254, and the value did not follow. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.