La'el Collins is Done

[Joelist]

I see our traditional forum dispute between the cynical and the hopeful is back in play.

Either Collins is truthful or he's not. Nothing in his past career indicates him to be one who spins tales. Plus he is rehabbing right there under the eyes of the Bengals.

As to this draft, they no doubt would like a plug and play power RT. But they also have ton of Tackles on roster including Collins, Carman, Ford (who is intriguing because he has had only one stint at RT in the NFL so far and that was not in a Power Gap scheme yet still it was his best play), Jonah, Adeniji and Smith. So, they may be thinking that in this mob they already have a RT who will work in the scheme they have adopted. Or they may not. We don't know.

The OTHER thing they feel they need is either a RB or TE that will help them get opposing defenses out of the cover 2 shell. If THIS is their plan then get ready to say hi to either a TE that falls to them or a back like a Jahmyr Gibbs or Bijan Robinson.