04-21-2021, 01:48 PM
(04-21-2021, 01:08 PM)blt4584 Wrote: Bob McGinn put out an article on The Athletic today about Wrs, he asked scouts to rank them 1-5 with first place getting five points and 5th getting 1. Out of a possible 80 points, Chase got 80. The last guy to do that was Calvin Johnson. Waddle came in with 53 and Smith 52. It's not just the Bengals that think highly of Chase in spite of what the rest of the league thinks.
I follow the draft year-round. That's hype. Chase is WR1 in a class that is anything but top-heavy (no pun intended). He wasn't even WR1 on his own team. More importantly for me, he's distanced himself from his peers without having played a game. As recently as January, he had a modest Top 10 label. Now he's supposedly launched into a new stratosphere lol. It's nonsense. Skill players have been milked like this at draft time since time immemorial.
He'll be a good player. A lot of these guys will be good players. But the Megatron comparisons need to stop, I don't care how they draw the link. No one in this class is in that category. It's pure sales. Megatron was unimpeachable. No one bothered to argue his skills for "separation" and "physicality at the LOS" because there was no need. His results spoke for themselves and it would have been merely pointing out the obvious.
