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Bengals select two IOL in way-too-early 2026 mock draft<\/h2>\n
May selected Florida C Jake Slaughter with the 22nd overall pick and Texas A&M RG Ar\u2019maj Reed-Adams with the 86th overall pick for the Bengals in his mock.<\/p>\n
Slaughter has started the last two years as Florida\u2019s center and has only repped that position in-game. He\u2019d make sense as an immediate Karras replacement if neither Seth McLaughlin nor Matt Lee inspire as much confidence to fill those shoes.<\/p>\n
Slaughter has the build and athleticism to play any interior offensive line position and offers two full years of experience at center heading into this season. He\u2019s a great leader, a consistent pass blocker, and can pull where needed in the run. This might look like a reach if people consider him a \u201ccenter only\u201d prospect, but he can be more than that. \u2014 A to Z Sports\u2019 Travis May
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\nReed-Adams also enters 2025 with two years of starting experience but has only been at Texas A&M for a year. He played sparingly at Kansas for three years before starting games at both left guard and right tackle in 2023. He transferred to A&M and started the entire 2024 campaign at RG.<\/p>\nThe Bengals did use a third-round pick to draft their LG of the future in Dylan Fairchild earlier this year, so spending another third-rounder on a RG to pair with him would make sense. Lee was the last center the club drafted as he was a seventh-rounder in 2024, but Billy Price was the last center they drafted to start immediately and he was a first-rounder like Slaughter may end up being.<\/p>\n
This season will tell us a lot about how desperate Cincinnati\u2019s need at RG will be next offseason, and if Karras will be worth bringing back on another contract or if a decision needs to be made about replacing him.<\/p>\n
Slaughter and Reed-Adams now become two names to remember as the CFB season ensues.<\/p>\n
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