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Cincinnati Bengals 2026 NFL Draft Deep Dive: Defensive Tackle Options Ranked

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Will the Cincinnati Bengals address the defensive tackle spot early in the 2026 NFL Draft? Is there a DT worth the 10th pick? James Rapien and Jake Liscow are joined by Joe Goodberry to discuss the top defensive tackle options in this year's draft. From Peter Woods to Kayden McDonald and Caleb Banks, the guys discuss all of the top options. Plus, options like Domonique Orange, Gracen Halton, Landon Johnson and Zane Durant stand out for the Bengals in rounds 3-7.

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0:00.0

The Cincinnati Bengals added Jonathan Allen to their defensive tackle room, but if things fall the right way, could they be tempted in this year's draft?

0:08.8

Let's break it down.

0:15.3

You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:26.2

What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

0:29.9

I'm your host, Jake, let's go along with your host, James Rapine, joined again today by Joe Goodberry,

0:34.8

who does excellent work every year for the draft.

0:37.9

You can find his videos on the first log logistics YouTube channel.

0:40.8

Bengals on the brand.

0:41.7

You can find his content on Twitter as well, where you'll find the NFL draft sheet

0:47.6

with full rankings for nearly a thousand players, many of which have full profiles, including film grades, analytics grades,

0:57.1

and all of the data you could possibly want about these guys.

1:01.2

Great supplemental content for the NFL draft every year.

1:04.8

This week, we've been talking about targets for the Cincinnati Bengals by position by round.

1:10.1

And today, as we get to defensive tackle,

1:12.6

we're going to be talking about mostly hoping things fall in a certain way that leads to the Bengals

1:19.0

scooping up a guy in what is a thing class. This is once again a defensive tackle class.

1:23.9

This has happened a few times in recent years. Last time it happened, the Bengals picked two in Chris Jenkins and McKinley Jackson. And it's another year where defensive

1:32.5

tackle doesn't really have a great deal of depth. And that may be the trend at the position

1:37.5

we're going to start with. Are there any guys that make sense at 10? Probably not. So if the Bengals

1:43.3

were to trade back in the first round or maybe

1:45.6

a guy falls to them in the second round, that's probably the first group of players that we're talking

1:49.6

about as potential Bengals targets, right, Joe? And we have a very different set of players, varying

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