Bengals Senior Bowl Standouts & Early NFL Draft Targets

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Caleb Banks looked healthy at the Senior Bowl and suddenly is being discussed as the potential top defensive tackle in the 2026 NFL Draft Class. CBS Sports' lead draft analyst Mike Renner joins the guys to break down Banks and other Senior Bowl standouts including T.J. Parker, and we dive into a primer on the draft class. It's a good year to need a safety - and we get into the best role for Caleb Downs in the NFL - and linebacker, and the Bengals need both!

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0:00.0	The senior ball is in the books, and that means it's time for us to take our first look at the 2026 draft class for the Cincinnati Bengals.
0:07.8	Let's get into it.
0:14.3	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:19.5	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:24.9	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:28.6	Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day, the number one sports
0:32.6	podcast network in the land.
0:35.4	I'm Jake Liscoe, co-hosts of this show, James Rupin with me today, along with
0:39.4	Mike Venter, the CBS Sports Lead Draft Analysts, who we've talked to over the years.
0:44.9	This has been a great resource for us to figure out what's going on in these NFL drafts
0:49.3	where he's watched about 200 times the amount of players that I have at this time of year, maybe 100 times.
0:56.7	I've watched two players so far, Mike.
0:58.1	You tell me how many times more players you've watched than me at this point.
1:02.2	Regardless, he's got a big board over there with CBS Sports and was helping with the Shrine
1:07.5	Bowl this year.
1:08.5	So we'll get a lot of great insight today from who
1:11.0	helped themselves and most of the senior bowl from Mike and a little bit of the general
1:14.4	texture of this draft class, the depth, the strengths, the weaknesses will be some of the
1:19.4	topics we're exploring today as we take our first look at the draft. Shout out to the everydayers.
1:24.0	Welcome back on into another episode of the lockdown bengals podcast
1:27.5	appreciate those of you who make us part of your daily routine and mike let's start with
1:32.5	the senior bowl because that i think is the most recent high profile event now we're into
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