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Bengals: Every AFC North team’s best value pick in the 2021 NFL Draft

By Leigh Oleszczak

CLEVELAND, OHIO - MAY 01: Fans waiting for Machine Gun Kelly to perform onstage after the final round of the 2021 NFL Draft at the Great Lakes Science Center on May 01, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Duane Prokop/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OHIO - MAY 01: Fans waiting for Machine Gun Kelly to perform onstage after the final round of the 2021 NFL Draft at the Great Lakes Science Center on May 01, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Duane Prokop/Getty Images) /
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Cameron Sample #55 of the Tulane Green Wave (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /

Bengals best value pick – Cameron Sample

I mentioned before that the Bengals had a really nice draft and that made it tough to pick their best value player because they had a lot of really good value picks in this draft. I ultimately went with Cameron Sample, who the Bengals took in the fourth round out of Tulane.

After finishing last in the NFL in sacks a year ago, Cincinnati made sure to add pass rushers in this draft and Sample falls into that category. The Green Wave defensive lineman had a nice senior season in New Orleans, tallying 52 tackles (7.5 for loss) and five sacks. He had 10.5 sacks during his four-year career at Tulane.

Alan Rubenstein of Stripe Hype wrote that Sample gives the Bengals the ability to have a versatile defensive line, as they not only took him in round four, but landed Joseph Ossai out of Texas in the previous round. For a defense that was pretty lousy at getting after the quarterback, Sample is a sneaky good pick that’s going to get home and pressure the quarterback.

Ossai was another potential option for best value pick but I went with Sample because he was a Day 3 selection who can jump in and contribute almost immediately for this team.

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