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Chris Roling

Look: Bengals coach Zac Taylor calls first-round pick Myles Murphy

“Hey Myles, this is Zac Taylor, Cincinnati. You want to come be a Bengal?”

That’s the line Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor hit first-round pick Myles Murphy with before making him the 28th pick in the 2023 NFL draft.

Taylor called Murphy to inform him of the team’s decision to put him in the rotation with the likes of Trey Hendrickson, Sam Hubbard, Joseph Ossai and others.

And now fans have a front-row seat for that brief call, too, thanks to the folks in charge of the team’s social media.

Here’s the brief exchange the team made available of the call between Taylor and Murphy:

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