Bengals will pick 18th in 2024 NFL Draft
18 teams in the NFL don't make the playoffs, and the Cincinnati Bengals can consider themselves the best of the bunch.At 9-8, the Bengals locked in the 18th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.The Bengals are one of a few teams to end the 2023 season with a 9-8 record, but their strength of schedule […]
18 teams in the NFL don't make the playoffs, and the Cincinnati Bengals can consider themselves the best of the bunch.
At 9-8, the Bengals locked in the 18th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.
The Bengals are one of a few teams to end the 2023 season with a 9-8 record, but their strength of schedule puts them behind all of them at the 18th overall pick in the first round.
Cincinnati has picked at the end of the round in each of the last two years, and before making selections at 31st and 28th overall, they made franchise-altering decisions with the first and fifth overall picks.
Being in the middle of the order is new territory for this era of Bengals football.
The last time the Bengals had a first-round pick in the teens was in 2012. The Carson Palmer trade netted them the Oakland Raiders' first-round pick at 17th overall, in which the Bengals selected cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick.
The last time the Bengals earned a pick in the teens from their record alone? That would be 2007. The Bengals also selected a cornerback that year when they drafted Leon Hall at… 18th overall.
Should the Bengals stay put this year, they'll try and land another impact player with the 18th pick.
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