Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin had a heck of a good afternoon Friday as the start of the NFL Draft's second round loomed about three hours away.
With the edge rushers picked over after a furious end-of-round run and his scouts and offensive line coach Frank Pollack giving high marks on Clemson left tackle Jackson Carman, Tobin called Bengals all-time right tackle Willie Anderson to get his take on one of his prized pupils. The Bengals believed they had their guy with the same type of M.O. as Penei Sewell, the tackle they passed on to take LSU wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase in the top five. Big. Mobile. Nasty.
When Tobin asked Anderson if he thought the 6-5, 330-pound Carman could come in and compete right away, Anderson said he felt he could. That call came 25 years after the Bengals called him at No. 10.
At 6-5, 330 pounds, Anderson calls Carman a "guard, right tackle type."
"Very intelligent. High football IQ," said Anderson, who could have been talking about his 21-year-old self.
So Carman, a product of suburban Cincinnati, was their guy at No. 38. But in a draft with so many question marks and a short list of prospects, Tobin sensed he could get Carman later and win some extra picks in what is looking to be Saturday's fertile, urgent fourth round for a league that is facing a truncated pool of players.
Tobin didn't get one, but he got two fourth-rounders in the Bengals' fifth trade with the Bill Belichick Patriots and still got the Cincinnati Kid from Fairfield.
"It's a really good pick for the Bengals and not just because I worked with him," Anderson said. "I think because of his personality. He can make that change and go in and compete at guard because he's an intelligent guy. Once you show it to him and you work with him, he can take that teaching and put it back on the field."
Carman agrees when it comes to the guard transition.
"I don't think there's a significant challenge. I think just getting used to it and getting reps," Carman said. "I think it's going to be fine. I think it's going to be great."
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