Bengals NFL Draft Order: Cincinnati gets little help from Week 14's Sunday slate

There may one or two more Sundays without Cincinnati Bengals before the regular season comes to an end. This week's slate of games hardly impacted where the Bengals would find themselves in the 2025 NFL Draft order. Still at 4-8, Cincinnati watched every single club with records worse than its own fall this week. The club will […]

John Sheeran — Cincinnati Bengals News Writer
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Feb 27, 2024; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Cincinnati Bengals general manager Duke Tobin during the NFL Scouting Combine at Indiana Convention Center.
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There may one or two more Sundays without Cincinnati Bengals before the regular season comes to an end. This week's slate of games hardly impacted where the Bengals would find themselves in the 2025 NFL Draft order. 

Still at 4-8, Cincinnati watched every single club with records worse than its own fall this week. The club will be locked out of the top eight picks no matter what happens tonight against the Dallas Cowboys.

So where are the Bengals in the order now before they close out Week 14? We know they'll be in one of two spots.

Bengals would pick 10th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft right now

There are still eight teams with fewer wins than the Bengals after 14 weeks of action. They had the ninth spot until the Chicago Bears dropped to 4-9 after losing to the San Francisco 49ers. Here's what the current top 10 looks like, via Tankathon.com:

  1. Las Vegas Raiders (2-11, .536)
  2. New York Giants (2-11, .546)
  3. New England Patriots (3-10, .459)
  4. Carolina Panthers (3-10, .484)
  5. Jacksonville Jaguars (3-10, .489)
  6. Tennessee Titans (3-10, .509)
  7. New York Jets (3-10, .516)
  8. Cleveland Browns (3-10, .523)
  9. Chicago Bears (4-9, .566)
  10. Cincinnati Bengals (4-8, .486)

Since the Bears have a notably higher strength of schedule compared to the Bengals, a loss to the Cowboys tonight would move the Bengals to the ninth spot thanks to that tiebreaker. That's the only way the Bengals can change the current order.

If the Bengals beat the Cowboys, they'll stay at the 10th spot. They'd only share a record with the New Orleans Saints, but a win would drop their strength of schedule and keep them ahead of the Saints.

The next two games on the Bengals' schedule are matchups against the Titans and Browns. Those games may have an impact on the order should the Bengals fall tonight in Dallas.

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