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Welcome to the second Bengals.com Media Mock Draft of the year, which is merely the figment of one poor, tortured soul and nothing else.

Any resemblance to this draft and the one the NFL and the Bengals eventually produce April 29-May 1 would have to be considered beyond coincidental and damn near cosmic.

But that won't stop this poor wretch from making history.

Welcome to the first Bengals.com Media Mock Draft with a trade.

With the need for offensive linemen and edge rushers at the forefront (free agency took care of the cornerbacks), we've been wondering how to get two fairly high second-round picks. Three choices in the top 40 would be nice in a draft where tackles and pass rushers supposedly lurk in the late first and early second.  

When four quarterbacks went off the board in front of us at No. 5, we needed a team close by that thought they got left behind. Carolina, at No. 8, thought they had.

The Panthers, knowing this might be their last, best chance at getting a successor to Teddy Bridgewater, wanted to talk. They figured to be pursuing Deshaun Watson, but that appears not to be an option now.

Our man in Carolina, the estimable Joe Person of The Athletic, wanted a shot at the fifth quarterback. He had the 39th pick, high in the second round. That dovetails nicely with the Bengals' 38th pick.

Now, do those two picks have more of an impact than Oregon tackle Penei Sewell or LSU wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase or Florida tight end Kyle Pitts?

Not our problem here and now. We just want to see what universe of positions would be available if a trade did go down.

Now, in the real world, there's a chance the impact of Sewell or Chase or Pitts has to be weighed against a much larger trade offer. We only took Carolina's second-round pick because we wanted to see what we could get at No. 39. We left the deals to the dealers.

But it looks like Denver, at No. 9, may have interest in No. 5, too. So if there's a bidding war for the pick, the Bengals would conceivably get a lot more than that. Even if there's not a bidding war, if the price is a quarterback, who knows if there is a first-rounder in the future? Or a third-rounder now? Or both? And how does that compare to one player, albeit a great one.

So we made the deal with Joe. No. 5 for No. 8 and 39.

Here we go with a huge thank you to all the participants:

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