The Cincinnati Bengals simply backed away from their commerce for Arnold Ebiketie.
At first, they have been able to ship the Eagles a sixth-round choose for the edge-rusher, however then the entrance workplace realized making this transfer may price them a way more helpful draft choice down the street — a third-round compensatory choose in 2027, in accordance with NFL insider Ian Rapoport.
Choosing up Ebiketie may erase the third-round comp choose the Bengals are in line to get after permitting Trey Hendrickson to depart in free company. Out of the blue, a easy sixth-rounder wasn’t the entire price ticket. There was an excessive amount of on the road, so Cincinnati nixed the deal. It wasn’t about Ebiketie flunking a bodily or something like that — simply draft math.
The entire thing boils right down to how the NFL’s compensatory-pick system works. Ebiketie, labeled as a compensatory free agent after signing a one-year cope with the Eagles in March, may have thrown off Cincinnati’s comp-pick calculations in the event that they picked him up.
They’ve already misplaced three qualifying free brokers this offseason and signed two, so Hendrickson leaving put them in a great place for that third-rounder in 2027. Including Ebiketie would have messed that up, and that choose is much more helpful than the sixth-rounder on the desk.
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