How To Watch the 2024 NFL Draft

This week's media mock drafts include the first mock draft from ESPN's Field Yates

This week's media mock drafts have the Bengals accumulating talent on offense and defense

This week's media mock drafts have the Bengals adding explosive athletes on both sides of the ball.

ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. released his first mock draft of the offseason this week

Media mock drafts this week had the Bengals taking potential game changers on both sides of the football

Early mock draft returns from media outlets across the league feature the Bengals taking various impact defenders at pick 17

The Bengals hold pick 17 in the 2025 NFL Draft in April

 The Bengals today signed OT Amarius Mims, the team's first-round draft pick out of the University of Georgia.

The Bengals doubled down at defensive tackle in the NFL Draft when they selected Texas A&M nose man McKinnley Jackson in the third round just a few hours after they took Michigan's Kris Jenkins in the second.

Looking to give quarterback Joe Burrow's passing game some more downfield juice, the Bengals selected Alabama wide receiver Jermaine Burton in the third round with the 80th pick.

The Bengals stayed in the trenches during the second round to draft Michigan defensive tackle Kris Jenkins with the 49th pick in the NFL Draft. 

Bengals special teams coordinator and assistant head coach Darrin Simmons has been doing this long enough and well enough that now his rookies are scouting him and it helped this time around when Austin McNamara discovered Simmons was a college punter, too.