How early is too early for the first edition of the 2018 Bengals.com Media Mock Draft?
_Within 50 hours of the Super Bowl parade feting the most recent champions?
_Twenty or so days before the first formal 15-minute interview at the NFL scouting combine?
_Before the sonorous tones of Baseball Hall of Fame play-by-play man Marty Brennaman grace the air waves?
_Before last year’s first edition of the 2017 Bengals.com Media Mock Draft?
OK, so we’re a little early, beating last year’s debut by a day.
But why not? The media has returned from a Super Bowl where the Butler didn’t do it but someone did it to the Butler and the Browns are again poised at the top of the draft board.