I hate the thought of planning around drafting a OL in the 1st.

[*ochocincos*]

(02-21-2022, 01:42 AM)puddycat Wrote: Player(age)
Rookies: Carman (22), T Hiil (22), D'Ante Smith (23)
2nd Year: Adeniji(24), Prince(24)
3rd year: Williams(24), F Johnson(24)
Other: Trey Hopkins (29)

Trey Hopkins is the only player on his 2nd contract.  Is adding more youth really the way to go here?

It's pretty crazy how the Bengals have no actual veteran backups.

Smith and Adeniji just aren't powerful enough (yet) to handle NFL DL.
Prince is your typical Ohio St OL who is much better run blocking than pass blocking.
Carman is so inconsistent, but he looks really good at times.

I don't know what to make of Trey Hill yet.
He didn't allow a sack on 210 offensive snaps in the regular season (117 pass block snaps), but he did have 6 penalties.
He actually was serviceable according to PFF - 65.3 pass block, 54.5 run block. His penalties on such few snaps brought his overall grade down to 53.3 though.

I'm honestly kind of shocked the Bengals basically exiled Fred Johnson.
I thought he'd have been the option at RT over Prince.
He was terrible at OG in 2020 but he's always seemed decent at OT.
2019 when he had limited OT snaps (146), he didn't allow a sack and only had 2 penalties.
This past year, he only allowed 1 sack and 0 penalties on 90 snaps.