Everyone loves to grade draft classes right after they happen.

We're no better.

We're going to grade what the Cincinnati Bengals did in the 2026 draft now.

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I'm Jake Glisco.

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And, well, James, it's the day that we grade the Bengals draft class.

We do this every year right after the draft.

I actually just went back and I looked at our grades from last year's

class to see where we were on things to see if we got anything glaringly wrong.

If anything, I think last year, we might have been too high on a number of picks.

But as we talk about this year's draft class, it's a little bit different.

They didn't have a first round pick and we've talked about it for the first time since the 1980s, the second time in franchise history. And part of this conversation is,

does Dexter Lawrence get included in the draft grade or not? And when you look around the internet,

and you start to see last year, I remember the Bengals had the consensus worst graded draft class in the NFL.

And that was part of our conversation.

I don't think that will be the case this year.

I haven't seen the report card of report cards yet and the GPA kind of thing come out from the guy that, and I don't remember who it is.

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