All indications are that the Cincinnati Bengals are going with Joe Burrow at No. 1 in Thursday’s NFL Draft. He’s going to represent the future of the franchise, but he can’t do it alone.
The Bengals have done an adequate job at stacking the defense in free agency, but offensively, the most they’ve done is retain A.J. Green. Getting a Burrow a bit more help would be ideal, and a prime trade candidate was just inadvertently put on the market.
With Rob Gronkowski now in Tampa Bay, there’s no good reason for the Bucs to hand onto O.