Our drafting has sucked lately

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(01-29-2024, 09:36 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: The draft has not produced other than Logan Wilson much from the #3/4 spot. Battle YTBD but looks promising. Baltimore has hit with Linderbaum, Flowers, and Hamilton. Those are first rounders but Hill, Murphy etc haven’t yet. I would say our drafts have been average at best.

They've also drafted all those guys before the Bengals were up.
Many of us were big on Linderbaum, but he never fell.
Same with Hamilton, but he was not considered even remotely having a chance to fall to 31 that draft.

People give crap to Dax Hill, but here's how his 2023 compared to the other safeties who were taken early other than Hamilton:
Dax Hill (31st overall) - 110 tackles, 1.5 sacks, 2 INTs
Lewis Cine (32nd overall) - 1 tackle
Jalen Pitre (37th overall) - 84 tackles, 0 sacks, 0 INTs
Jaquan Brisker (48th overall) - 105 tackles, 2 FF, 1 sack, 1 INT

Hill did about as well as any of the other safeties in the 2022 draft class this year other than Hamilton, who Bengals didn't have opportunity to get.

Let's not criticize the team for not getting players they never had a shot at drafting unless they traded up (which they don't typically do in the 1st round).

EDIT - The real killers are the Drew Samples and Jackson Carmans who haven't even carved out a starter role after being on the team 3+ years and 2nd round picks. Team needs to hit on most 2nd and 3rd rounders as these core players are going to take up more and more of the cap and losing other expensive guys because of it.