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How the Bengals’ draft could be different with an offensive of defensive focus

What if the Bengals focused primarily on getting one side of the ball right with their first five picks and then shifted to the other side?

Obviously, in real life they would be open to taking players on both sides of the ball at any time, but these mock drafts were run just to see how much improvement they could make by focusing their early picks on one side of the ball.

The Bengals have 11 picks in the upcoming draft. The methodology is this: in one draft the Bengals spend their first five picks on offense and their last five picks on defense, and in the other draft they spend their first five picks on defense and their last five picks on defense.