Shout out to Duke and the scouts

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(08-30-2023, 02:05 PM)Bengalion Wrote: The 2015 class was the worst I've ever seen:

• Round 1, pick No. 21: Cedric Ogbuehi, OL, Texas A&M -> Complete bustRound 2, pick No. 53: Jake Fisher, OL, Oregon -> BustRound 3, pick No. 85: Tyler Kroft, TE, Rutgers -> Didn't work for us, had a decent couple of years in BuffaloRound 3, pick No. 99: Paul Dawson, LB, TCU -> BustRound 4, pick No. 120: Josh Shaw, DB, USC -> BustRound 4, pick No. 135: Marcus Hardison, DL, Arizona State ->BustRound 5, pick No. 157, C.J. Uzomah, TE, Auburn -> the best pick of this class. A great leader, but Uzomah was just an average player for us.Round 6, pick No. 197, Derron Smith, DB, Fresno State -> BustRound 7, pick No. 238, Mario Alford, WR, West Virginia -> Bust

This one might take the cake of the last 10 years, but there were some other close ones.

2018 - Bates and Hubbard were the lone saviors of this otherwise disastrous draft.
2017 - Mixon and Elliott the only good players, Lawson was solid. Lawson has had injuries hold him back, and Bengals cut Elliott in favor of Bullock, so he doesn't even really count.
2016 - WJ3 was good for the Bengals but not good after he left. Boyd the only guy that has stuck around and still good.
2014 - Ok this might be the worst. Dennard never really established himself as a starter, Hill fell off after a couple years, and the rest all fell out of the league quickly.

Damn, when we put all these sequential drafts in order from 2014-2018, it's no wonder Marvin's teams fell off so hard after that 2015 core of guys started leaving. Back-to-back-to-back bad drafts.