On Monday, Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin appeared on Hobson’s Choice Podcast to talk about the NFL Draft.
One thing that Geoff Hobson, host of the podcast, brought up was “the key thing in the draft that seemed to energize the room.”
You had been working on this trade with Kansas City, I guess since Wednesday, and that really seemed to open things up for you when you slid down eight spots in the second round and were able to get up back in the third round at 78 where you ended up taking [Jessie Bates].