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After the preliminary list of the 2024 NFL draft offsetting selects was exposed last week, the league revealed an upgrade on Monday.
The list stays primarily the verysame with the most noteworthy modification affecting the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals will now have a third-round choice rather of one of the 2 sixth-round chooses they formerly held, per ESPN’s Field Yates.
Cincinnati now has the No. 97 over choice and the No. 214 choose, according to Pro Football Network’s Jay Morrison.
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The third-round compensation choice the #Bengals are getting is No. 97 general (second of 32 compensation selects general).
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Compensatory selects, presented in 1994, are doled out based on a formula that elements in incomes, playing time and league honors to rank the totallyfree representatives groups lost in a offered year. The NFL utilizes the formula to figureout what groups get countervailing chooses, and where in the draft those chooses are granted.
According to The Athletic’s Paul Dehner Jr., the league discovered an mistake in how it dispersed this year’s selects, lateron remedying that error by granting Cincinnati a greater choice than it atfirst gotten.
With the upgraded offsetting chooses, the Bengals now have 9 selects in the 2024 NFL draft—the greatest being the 18th choice. Bleacher Report’s Scouting Department tasks Cincinnati taking defensive lineman Jer’Zhan Newton with that choice.
While offsetting selects puton’t offer groups the opportunity to land one of the to