We talked about the Bengals adding to every level of their defense.

They've added two safeties already.

Well, a third come in the NFL draft.

Let's talk potential targets.

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

I'm your host, Jake Liskgo, along with your host, James Rapine, joined once again today by Joe Goberi, who does great draft work where he's got his videos over on his Bengals on the Brain Show with first star logistics and the NFL draft sheet that we put

out every year with hundreds of players nearly a thousand this year with a bunch of data

points for you, film grades and rankings. And we're going to finish up this week with safety,

a position where, if you would have asked me before free agency, what is a position the Bengals

were going to prioritize in the draft?

I would have probably thought that safety could have made the list.

And then you get to the combine and the Bengals brass talks up Jordan Battle, and not only

that, and much more important

than that, they go spend big at the top of the safety market and free agency and then later

at another piece in the late part of free agency.

So you've added Brian Cook, you've added Dugger, now you're at the draft and you've got Jalen Battle on the roster and you're wondering,

okay, when is it worth picking a safety?

And then that list of guys that is worth drafting gets much shorter.

So maybe a little bit more depth than number of players today to talk about is Caleb Downs,

squarely in play for that 10th pick,

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