The Cincinnati Bengals have started 1-3.
It’s not necessarily the record that has fans troubled but the way in which those four games have gone. The offense has stalled far too often, and the defensive strength of this team in the run game has been lost.
As we know from the late 2010s, when teams aren’t good, they get high draft picks. Whether or not they can turn those into quality talent is a completely different story, as the team whiffed on players like John Ross III and Billy Price.
Cincinnati, on its current trajectory, could be bad enough to get a top-10 pick and may even end in the top five.