“I don’t view us as having immediate starter needs,” said Cincinnati Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin in Friday’s briefing with the Cincinnati media in the run-up to Thursday night’s No. 31 pick.
The Bengals currently have five former Ohio State players on their roster, tied with the New Orleans Saints and Detroit Lions for the most of any team in the NFL – and that’s not even including Joe Burrow, Keandre Jones and Noah Spence, who also played at Ohio State before finishing their college careers elsewhere.