Grade the 2021 Bengals draft

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(05-03-2024, 01:17 PM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: Come on man! It's a pickem. You know which ones are hits and which ones were complete misses. You can probably give Ossai a C but it's all downhill after that with the 6 incompletes. Evans may be worthy of a C considering where he was drafted. I don't see how any of the other 4 could rank above a D grade. 

Yeah...less than half of 4th round picks last through their rookie deals without getting cut.  Looking at our '11-20 draft classes(because '20 is the last draft year that rookie contracts have expired from), 5 of our 15 4th round picks lasted 4 years in the roster(ADG, Carl Lawson, Andrew Billings, Russell Bodine, and Clint Boling).  And you're apparently giving D grades to 6th rounders like Hill and Evans who have made the roster for 3 years?

Day 3 picks are cheap depth fills for the back half of the roster.  Occasionally, yeah, you luck into a starter, but expecting starters and key backups out of these picks is ridiculous.  That's why I rail on everyone jumping on the Golden Binns bandwagon or folks who think you can just find a quality RB on Day 3.