WHAT IF? Exploring Bengals Mock Draft Paths After Caleb Downs at 10

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We drafted Caleb Downs, Caleb Banks, and Jake Golday in Mock Draft Monday earlier this week, but what if we could get a do-over to explore other paths through the draft? Jake Liscow and James Rapien explore a scenario where they more aggressively attack the linebacker position in the 2nd round in a review of Monday's mock draft.

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0:00.0	We did a mock draft Monday this week and got Caleb Downs in the first round, but what if things went differently?
0:06.7	Let's explore alternate universes for mock draft Monday.
0:15.5	You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:20.8	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network,
0:23.5	your team every day.
0:26.0	What up Bengals fans and welcome to a mini episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:30.2	He's James Rapine.
0:30.9	I'm Jake Liskow and we are your host of Lockdown Bengals.
0:34.8	On Monday this week or on Sunday, if you're a keener,
0:38.5	we put out a mock draft Monday episode
0:41.4	where we went three rounds after free agency
0:44.0	and ended up with Caleb Downs, Caleb Banks, and Jake Golda.
0:49.0	And that's just one scenario.
0:50.9	There were many options at every pick.
0:53.4	And one of the things that we can do with
0:55.7	a little bit of extra content for you here, not replacing a full episode or anything like that,
1:00.6	is revisit our mock draft and talk about what the alternative paths or alternate universes,
1:07.2	parallel universes, could have been if we had made other decisions.
1:12.3	And maybe sometimes the right decision was there in front of us the whole time, but with the
1:18.1	benefit of hindsight, James, it could be interesting to revisit exactly what we did on
1:23.8	Monday.
1:24.2	So what we've got here, for those of you watching on YouTube, is the full breakdown of the full mock draft,
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