2024 NFL mock draft: Bengals get risky after OL run in 1st-round projections

Full 2024 first-round mock draft, scouting combine edition — including the Bengals.

The Cincinnati Bengals currently work through the NFL’s scouting combine process as the calendar turns to March and the rush to the draft begins in earnest.

While free agency will decide much about the draft outlook in the coming weeks, the Bengals have continued to put in work on notable prospects such as Georgia tight end Brock Bowers.

The question, of course, is who might actually be available to the Bengals at No. 18. Some of that hinges on how other teams approach the draft, which includes runs at certain positions on the podium.

In our latest first-round mock, for example, Bowers goes higher than anticipated and a run on the offensive line has the Bengals looking inward at the key spot.