Since Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther didn’t make his first appearance in the media room until the last pick of the second day of the NFL Draft, there were a few guffaws as midnight Saturday neared.
“Tackles go both ways,” Guenther said with a smile because he just might have stolen another one with the defense’s only pick in the Bengals first four of the nine they get in the draft that concludes Saturday with a noon start.
Three years after plucking Pro Bowl WILL linebacker Vontaze Burfict from the scrap heap of college free agency, the Bengals took Texas Christian linebacker Paul Dawson with the 99th and last pick of the third round, the Big 12 Player of the Year who ran a slow (4.