It's draft miss eve and that means it's time for our annual predictive mock draft.

Let's get into what we think the Bengals will do in the 2026 NFL draft.

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

He's James Rapine.

I'm Jake Liskow.

We're your host of Lockdown Bengals, and it's time for us to take our dive into our annual

pre-draft exercise where we try to predict who the Cincinnati Bengals, and it's time for us to take our dive into our annual pre-draft exercise

where we try to predict who the Cincinnati Bengals will draft. And it's a little bit weird this

year, James. We don't have a first round pick to talk about the Bengals have obviously traded that

for Dexter Lawrence. We spent the last few days talking about Dexter Lawrence before shifting gears

back into the draft, which is ultimately the main event this week for the NFL.

Maybe not the main event for the Bengals, that happening on Saturday when they acquired Dexter Lawrence.

But without a first round pick, without a fifth round pick, it's honestly a little bit weird.

It's just unusual.

We've never had to do a mock for the Bengals that did not include a first round pick.

They typically keep most of their picks.

And this year, they're missing picks in two rounds entirely.

They've got a bunch of picks at the end of day three.

And when we talk about the day two targets, and we're going to start with the second round,

we'll get to day three later in the show.

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