{"id":3380,"date":"2026-04-12T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/3380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:15:16","slug":"even-ai-gets-bengals-nfl-mock-draft-pick-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/3380\/","title":{"rendered":"Even AI gets Bengals\u2019 NFL mock draft pick correct"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> might be the most obvious team in the NFL draft<\/a> at No. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Provided Caleb Downs makes it there, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Downs is widely considered one of the best overall players in the entire draft class. The Bengals<\/a>\u2019 hopes of actually landing him hinge on nine other teams not weighing the positional importance all that highly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even AI is on board with the idea. At USA Today, Jacob Camenker<\/a> asked Meta AI to predict the first round and Downs went to the Bengals:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bengals signed Bryan Cook and Kyle Dugger in free agency. Will that preclude them from selecting a safety with the 10th overall pick? Meta doesn’t think so, as it believes Downs’ “instincts and range” will make him an attractive option for Cincinnati at this juncture.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is zero chance the signings of Bryan Cook and Kyle Dugger take Downs off the board for the Bengals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cook is a starter, while Dugger will see snaps. But the verdict is still out on Jordan Battle. More important than anything, Downs projects as a guy who can play in the slot. They have yet to find a slot starter at all after Josh Newton didn\u2019t pan out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the draft unfolds this way, the Bengals will be looking at a lot of Cook-Battle-Downs on the field together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious even to AI, but the Jessie Bates mistake from years ago needs corrected in Cincinnati.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals might be the most obvious team in the NFL draft at No. 10.\u00a0 Provided Caleb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2482,2493,25,3352,3355,3347,3356,3354,3359,3348,3350,2483,3353,3351,3358,3349,3357,2489,2496,772,66,2485,607,777,897,915],"class_list":{"0":"post-3380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-bates","13":"tag-bengals","14":"tag-bryan","15":"tag-bryan-cook","16":"tag-cincinnati","17":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","18":"tag-cook","19":"tag-dugger","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-iii","22":"tag-jessie","23":"tag-jessie-bates-iii","24":"tag-kyle","25":"tag-kyle-dugger","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-neutral","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-overall","32":"tag-overall-neutral","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}