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The Bengals still need heaps of help at LB, DE, DT, and OLB. Now they need help at WR as well.
Many options for them at this point, but it's hard to see where they'd go. Kendall Langford is a gigantic 300 lb DE/DT prospect, but the Bengals want a pass rusher, and really Thompson from Wake Forest projects to be just that, although he's got a ways to go before he becomes the man who single-handedly solves the Bengals' woes.
LB doesn't really yield a lot for them at this point. Dizon is a known quantity, but doesn't have much of a ceiling. He may be a good LB in the right scheme but I don't know if he's meant for Cincinnati's scheme. The Bengals already drafted two LBs already anyway, although to be honest, another couldn't hurt.
WR yeilds more interesting returns for the stripes. Arrington played very well in Michigan as the #2 option to Manningham, a role he'll justly assume to TJ and CJ. Could be a great #3 guy in the NFL, we'll see. He's got the skills of a possession receiver, but he needs to add quite a bit of weight, which he can, but it'll probably be a season before he fills out his frame considering how thin he is.
Keenan Burton is your home run threat role player. He's got a lot of jukes and moves in a decently sized package with fairly good speed, but he can simply be dynamite in the open field. And if you're looking purely for a guy with incredible open field ability to simply stun defenders in their tracks, look at Dorien Bryant, who's a poor man's Steve Smith in terms of his sheer athletic ability.
My pick for the Bengals would be one of the WRs, particularly either Arrington or Burton. I believe Burton would make the better fit.
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