Paul Dawson who?

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(06-03-2016, 02:10 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Fred makes a good point. For instance we take Gee with our 3rd Comp in 2010 and we take Geno Atkins with our 4th rounder.

If we don't have that comp and Gee is still available at our pick in RD 4; who do we take?

I can kinda see what you two are getting at, but saying "if we don't constantly draft crappy players with our compensatory picks, we won't be able to draft decent players later" seems like more a knock on the Bengals FO than a good reason of why you should keep trying to horde comp picks at the cost of making your team better.

Since 2012 (they didn't know they'd be in the playoffs in 2011) to 2015 (can't judge the 2016 picks yet), rather than try to get some real FA help and win a SB (SEA, NE, DEN), they horded comp picks to get:  Reid Fragel, TJ Johnson, Marquis Flowers, Lavelle Westbrooks, Paul Dawson, and Marcus Hardison.

Those 6 have combined for a grand total of 1 game started. 3 of them didn't even/have yet to play in a game with the Bengals.


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All the Bengals comp picks in the world and even combined they'd be vastly outproduced by a single legit FA signing. Maybe then the Bengals would take that extra step in the postseason?