Give a current or former Bengals elite athleticism or IQ and create the best player

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(11-14-2021, 12:34 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes it did.

The claim that Hall lacked speed was a lot like the claim that Whitworth should play OG because he could not handle speed rushers.  Hall get beat deep by Ted Ginn in college and Whitworth got abused by Robert Mathis as a rookie.  A lot of fans based their opinion those incidents and never changed their opinions.

Hall did not start until halfway through his rookie season. Despite of that over his first 4 years in the league he was 3rd in PDs (with only one less than Asante Samuel and 3 less that Darrell Revis), and 4th in interceptions.  And he certainly did not get beat deep a lot.

I wonder of people are only remembering Hall after his 2 Achilles tears. There's not a person in the world who wouldn't slow down after that. But before that he was never a liability against deep routes.