We Signed Nick Scott!

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(11-18-2023, 05:53 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Being equally fair, the Bengals could have had Frank Ragnow, but they swapped their 1st round pick with the Bills in the Cordy Glenn trade (which is another bad mark for the Bengals scouting/choosing OL). The Bengals originally would have had the 12th pick that year and Ragnow went 20th.

Also if you want a guy, go up and get him, they ended up with three 5th rounders and three 7th rounders. Heck, 5 of the guys they drafted that year (3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 7th) either never played a single game for the Bengals, or only lasted 1 year on the roster.

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Not sure how you say Slater and Darrisaw are clearly ahead. All are good but Darrisaw keeps missing games every year and Slater also missed almost an entire year. 

Sewell missed exactly 1 game, because of COVID, and in another game he missed 6% of the snaps. He's played 100% of the snaps in every other game the Lions have played.

Equal talent goes to the more available guy every time.

Nobody takes a C at 12, though.  I do agree that with the situation we put ourselves in we should have moved up to get our guy, though.

Sewell is not equal talent to Slater and Darrisaw, though.  He's graded worse than both, on average, and has been one of the most penalized T's in the league since he was drafted.  Not to mention that scouts can't prognosticate injuries without a previous injury history.  Anybody that had Sewell at the top of their T board that year(I was one of them) missed their evaluation.