3 trade scenarios to ensure Bengals avoid lighting top draft picks on fire

Until the Cincinnati Bengals fundamentally overhaul their scouting process or their personnel department, they can expect to keep failing on the vast majority of their draft picks. To be fair to the Bengals and any other team, the NFL Draft is a crapshoot to begin with. However, it's even more so that way when you have the smallest scouting department in the league, which Cincinnati does. Rather than taking fliers based on evaluations that can't be as comprehensive as the elite front offices based on resources alone, why not trade these future maybe-picks for definitely-good players now? Not sure how else the Bengals except to make meaningful progress on defense in particular via a slow draft-based rebuild. Here are some trades for Duke Tobin and Co. to consider before the 2026 NFL Draft, in lieu of an unlikely free-agent spending spree. For some strange reason, the Kansas City Chiefs didn't lock up Trent McDuffie to a multi-year extension before the 2025 campaign kicked off. They had the chance to, but inst