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(01-25-2017, 03:48 PM)Buckeyes420 Wrote: I think we get a 2nd for mccarron and we arent even to the combine yet in the pre draft process..a player that YOU (think) might be a 1st rounder could go undrafted by the time the draft rolls around.Since my mini mock was so far fetched maybe you should post the actual bengals 2k17 draft so we can stop all this debate about who were gonna get.

No need to get all defensive. If you had properly read my post, you would have seen that I essentially wrote that most experts have the players you selected going much higher than where you have them selected, however there is the rare occasion where someone like Billings (pegged as a first rounder) drops to the 4th, that's why I consider it a dream scenario if it happened. I was actually saying it COULD happen, just surprising if it did.

But since you decided to get defensive, here's why I think those pick selections of yours are bad...

If Pocic falls to the third, it will mean he won't be the first or second center off the board. The top center is always off the board no later than mid-second. The second center is usually drafted by the end of the second round. If Pocic is really taken as the third center in what some consider a weak center class, is that really good for the Bengals? Now, if you think Pocic is drafted as guard primarily, then this selection could make more sense, as he likely isn't considered a top-graded OG. You have both Pocic and Toth in your mini mock, but no explanation of why you took two centers. Thinking that the Bengals take two centers in the draft while they have Bodine on the roster is not realistic unless one of those picks plays a different position. I think projecting Elflein in the third is more realistic than Pocic because Elflein has surprisingly short arm length that could limit his effectiveness in the NFL.

JuJu Smith-Shuster, if selected in the fourth round, would mean likely 9 (or more) WRs will be selected before him. If there are that many WRs selected before him, he's probably not rookie starter material and needs at least a year or two to emerge as such. Given that this is considered a weak WR class and JJSS is a very solid prospect, I don't expect to see JJSS fall any lower than early third round.

Watkins is the one I've seen more out of your list being ranked anywhere from second round down to fifth. Given Billings' fall from first to fourth, Watkins from second to fifth could happen.

Maybe you are the one who is the actual draft prophet and all the draft projection experts and sites are the ones who are very off. But given how I put more trust into sites and experts that have done this for a long time and in most cases get paid to do this kind of stuff full time, I'm going to trust their projections over some new person on a message board.