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With the NFL scouting combine safely tucked into last week, we offer the first Bengals.com Media Mock Draft of 2026. If you don't like it, wait two weeks. There'll be another one about 10 days into free agency.

Quite fitting that Dalton Risner's dad happened to be in a car driving from a family reunion in Colorado back home to Oklahoma as he watched the news conference reuniting his son with the Bengals team he considers a family.

Notes and quotes from Monday's signing of Bengals right guard Dalton Risner.

The 2026 NFL Salary Cap will be at $301.2 million, the league informed teams Friday.

The re-signing of G Dalton Risner kicks off an important Bengals offseason a week before the start of 2026 free agency.

The Bengals today re-signed G Dalton Risner to a one-year contract for the 2026 season.

INDIANAPOLIS _ What we heard this week at the NFL scouting combine:

INDIANAPOLIS _ Notes and quotes Thursday from the NFL scouting combine.

See who experts project to join the Bengals in April as workouts begin at the NFL Combine.

The word over here at the NFL scouting combine is that it's a draft deep in defense, a good turn for Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden in his bid to start his second season quicker than the first.