02-17-2022, 04:49 PM
(02-17-2022, 04:00 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: When this exact thing was said several months ago, it was met with so much negativity and heat.
The guy is pretty...meh...and average. Which for a top 10 pick is absolutely unacceptable and basically a wasted pick. When you take a guy that high you expect a certain level of production, not average or just above.
You should study draft outcomes more because this post is ridiculous. First, recent top 11 picks (he wasn’t actually a top 10) are out of FB altogether, Greg Robinson, Luke Joekel; guys who were forced to moved inside; Ereck Flowers, DJ Fluker; or guys that are rated worse Jedrick Wills, Mike McGlinchey, Jake Matthews &Taylor Lewan. Only 5 are rated higher (6 if you include Ronnie Stanley). So that is a pretty normal outcome. That doesn’t count if position class was high or not (it was not).
It is very hard to replace even “average” tackles in todays NFL. Really hard. In his defense I would point out that several OL evaluators don’t think he is only average. And he still young and he is making up for lost time after missing 22 games. The Bengals have a terrible record of OL drafting. Can we chill about the one positive outcome we did have?
