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David Bailey vs Caleb Downs: Analyzing Bengals' Top Targets in 2026 NFL Draft

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Cincinnati Bengals have plenty of intriguing options in the 2026 NFL Draft, including Texas Tech pass rusher David Bailey and Ohio State safety Caleb Downs. Jake Liscow and James Rapien are joined by Mike Santagata of BengalsTalk.com to discuss Bailey and Downs, what they'd add to the defense and which one he'd take if both players were available in the first round!

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0:00.0

In our first mock draft Monday of the year, James and I had to pick between David Bailey and Caleb Downs at 10 overall.

0:07.6

Let's dive into those two players in detail in what they show on tape.

0:16.7

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

0:27.4

What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day in the number one sports podcast network in the land.

0:36.7

James Rapien and I are joined today by Mike's antagonist who has watched David Bailey and

0:42.7

Caleb Downs in depth.

0:44.7

And we're going to dive into what those guys could bring to the Cincinnati Bengals.

0:49.5

And it's timely because in our first mock draft Monday of the year, we had to pick between

0:52.9

those two guys, did James and I.

0:55.2

And well, if you're an every day or you've probably heard that mock draft Monday.

0:59.2

If you're not, you can go check out that little two round mock draft Monday that we did

1:03.2

that was posted early on Monday.

1:06.0

And here, our process and how we got to the pick we got to.

1:10.0

And we're going to finish the show with what

1:11.9

Mike would do and how he would approach that decision. But how we want to start today is by

1:17.3

diving into what exactly David Bailey and Caleb Downs are. Mike is well into his college film

1:24.9

watching for our annual draft spreadsheet process where we evaluate all of these

1:29.2

guys and combine the film takes with a bunch of data scores and come away with an overall

1:35.1

draft score that is informed by the data that we think is predictive at the NFL level and

1:40.8

takeaways on tape. But what we're going to do today is talk about what Mike saw on tape with these guys.

1:47.3

And let's just start with David Bailey.

1:50.1

The edge rusher that I think from a positional value point of view would certainly be in

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