Ravens’ Rookie Sends Message to Bengals: ‘I Got a Bone to Pick With Cincy’.

he NFL draft process is an interesting experience for rookies because as they meet with teams, they can either get no feedback or be told that if they are available at a certain pick they will be selected. For rookie WR Devontez Walker, he thought he may be joining the AFC north but not as a member of the reigning division champion Baltimore Ravens.

Walker joined “The Lounge Podcast” with Ryan Mink and Garret Downing to talk about life pre and post draft and dropped a nugget that he thought he was getting drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals.

The rookie later said, “I got a bone to pick with Cincy I will say that,” the receiver said while smiling.

Walker spoke about the teams in the draft process that he met with multiple times and the Bengals were one of the teams mentioned. He said, “Like I said that’s where I thought I was going.”

The Ravens selected Walker in the fourth-round of the 2023 at pick 113 (the Bengals were slotted to pick at 115), while the Bengals seemingly passed on the North Carolina wideout twice in the third-round at picks 80 and 97.

“They took another receiver at that spot,” Walker told Mink and Downing. The receiver taken was Jermaine Burton out of Alabama at pick 80, clearly Walker thought that is where his draft experience was going to end up.

“Cincinnati, that game is gonna get rough,” Walker finished saying. The Ravens and Bengals face off Week 5, October 6 for the first of their two meetings.