2017 NFL Draft: Cincinnati Bengals Final 7-Round Mock Draft

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Jan 1, 2017; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Bengals center Russell Bodine (61) takes the field against the Baltimore Ravens at Paul Brown Stadium. The Bengals won 27-10. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports /

It’s draft season, Cincinnati Bengals fans, so what does the team do in the 2017 NFL Draft? The final 7-round mock draft tries to determine.

With the 2017 NFL Draft rapidly approaching, now feels like a great time to take stock of what may happen for this team there. This Cincinnati Bengals team has tons of weaknesses and deficiencies to fill. Luckily for them, they also are chock full of draft picks.

With 11 different selections across the seven rounds of this draft — many of which come in the top 10 of those rounds — they should hopefully be able to select a handful of immediate contributors and depth pieces who can help the team recover from an underwhelming 6-9-1 season and return to the playoffs for the sixth time in the past seven seasons.

The draft is especially important for this team. Not only are they a group which perennially ignores the free agency frenzy for improvement, but this is a drastically important season for them. As of now, their head coach Marvin Lewis is unsigned beyond the 2017 season. Lewis has been in retirement rumors for multiple years now too, so even if this team does well, they could find themselves under new leadership sometime in the near future.

Any way you break it down, bringing in quality talents which can build the depth of this team and possibly help take it to a new level are direly needed for the rapidly impending future of this group. With so much riding on this particular draft, I’m taking my own look at who the Bengals could decide to bring in.

Using Fanspeak’s On The Clock mock draft simulator and NFL.com’s NFL Draft Tracker and individual player profiles, I’m delving deep into this collection of incoming college players and determining who this team could select at each spot in the draft, along with the reasoning behind those picks. I’ll also be providing an alternate selection for each spot as well, giving further insight and ideas as to what direction the Bengals could decide to go in with their picks.

Let’s begin at the top.

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