Bengals take Myles Murphy at No. 28

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The Bengals added a defensive piece with their first pick of the 2023 draft.

The team took edge rusher Myles Murphy off the board with the 28th overall pick.

Murphy broke into the Clemson lineup as a freshman with four sacks and 12 tackles for loss. He added 13.5 sacks and 25 tackles for loss over his final two seasons with the Tigers.

The Bengals will be hoping that he continues to provided pass rush at the professional level because making playoff runs in the AFC is going to take beating several teams with good quarterbacks in the coming years.

Cincinnati is set to pick at No. 62 and No 90 on the second day of the draft.

11 responses to “Bengals take Myles Murphy at No. 28

  1. jdubkc says:
    April 27, 2023 at 11:34 pm
    LOL! Chili and noodles. Bungles gone and bungled again. I love it!

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    Haha keep drinking my guy. . Affecting the QB is the way to win the AFC. Who Dey!!

  2. From what I’ve read dude is a freak and gets alot of pressures,and has a high ceiling. Gotta get after the QB, especially in the AFC

  3. This was a good pick. Even though I was kind of expecting a tight end the pass rush really did need some help

  4. Great pick. Bengals lacked sack numbers last year and was quietly a bigger need than that of a TE. Love how Buffalo jumped ahead of us thinking we would take Kincaid when we never had an interest and took a player who was rated in the top 20. Very nice value.

  5. Josh Morgan says:
    April 28, 2023 at 6:51 am

    Great pick. Bengals lacked sack numbers last year and was quietly a bigger need than that of a TE. Love how Buffalo jumped ahead of us thinking we would take Kincaid when we never had an interest and took a player who was rated in the top 20. Very nice value.

    Buffalo was already ahead of us. They jumped in front of Dallas.

  6. Cincy needed to get a good DL on a rookie contract with Reader in the final year of his contract and Hill and Hendrickson only on contract thru 2024. Almost all mock drafts had them go TE, I think it’s a decent pick.

  7. For all of you couch GM’s wanting a TE you do realize a TE in this offense is the 4/5 receiving option? Look at the QB’s in the AFC that you have to go against to make it to the Superbowl. You better be able to make them uncomfortable and the Bengals pass rush was non existent last year. You also have Hubbard and Hendrickson making a lot of money on the line and aging. The Bengals will draft a TE in later rounds. Right now they need to focus on the trenches. I fully expect them to go OL in Round 2.

  8. I don’t follow Clemson football, but a guy who does, and who writes for the Tennesseean, was commenting on Murphy’s stats dropping last season. Apparently Clemson got a new DC last season, and the guy apparently would utilize Murphy’s athleticism by dropping him back into pass coverage – a lot. Which while it didn’t help his metrics, should be good experience for Murphy going into a Lou Anarumo defense.

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