O-Line Rankings Have Me Excited!

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(09-05-2023, 03:43 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: So the offensive line has been the only thing holding us back from a title the past two years. It was ranked 28th last season and it's in the top half this season! Some (few) sites even have us top ten, but most have us around the ten-to-fifteen range.

Either way, it's a drastic improvement from either of the past two years!

I only bring this up because I have the top pick in tonight's fantasy football draft and the consensus is to take Jefferson, but I started doing research on taking Chase first overall.

What I found out was that Jefferson's air yards were almost twice as much as Chase's last year, which means that our line struggled so much that Chase only had half as much time to run downfield before Burrow had to get rid of the ball.

We almost won a title the past two years having two of the worst lines in the league and now we're DRASTICALLY improved, so I'm even more excited!

I'm going to stop by the casino when I get the chance to place more bets

WHO-DEY!

I can totally understand why we would hope to be excited, as:
- Karras and Cappa were both good last year
- Karras, Cappa, and Volson are all going into 2nd year in the system
- New veteran LT added in Orlando Brown
- Jonah should be at least solid at RT, if not better, based on reports coming from camp

With that said, we haven't actually seen how well this OL actually performs.
And are these rankings the expected performance right out of the gate, or by season's end?
I'd be more ok with the rankings if that was projected by season's end once the guys can gel together, but I do have my doubts they'll perform even middle-of-the-pack early in the season.


Also, is depth assessed in any of these rankings?
I don't know the depth across other teams, but I know I have been less than impressed with most of the OL backups on the Bengals roster.
If there are any injuries to about any starting OL, I have very little confidence in the OL being even middle-of-the-pack.
Injuries to the right side have doomed the Bengals the past 2 years.