Foster in for a visit

[kevin]

(04-12-2017, 09:35 PM)zygrot24 Wrote: Seriously hope this is a sign. Even with bringing in minter, I think you can't pass on fosters talent.  I know don't read to much into it, they bring in a lot of guys before the draft. But please, let Marvin's love for linebackers take over and get us foster.



https://www.google.com/amp/www.cincyjungle.com/platform/amp/2017/4/11/15245738/alabama-linebacker-reuben-foster-visiting-bengals

The Director of Player Personnel really wants the LSU RB bad, but by most mock drafts he will be long gone at 9 and Bengals refuse to trade up or down here.  Most mock drafts do have Bengals taking Reuben Foster. Some have Foster going as high as pick 2.  He is considered a game changer. A high motor and the hardest hitter in the draft. He is considered a team leader and a guy that can go to a team and for years be the team captain on defense.  Now some mock drafts have Bengals taking a DE.  If they do that, there should be good LB's at pick 41 such as J.J. Watts brother, The Ohio State LB or the other Alabama LB.   

So if the LSU RB is there he becomes a Bengal.  If he isn't there I see a Front 7 person in Foster or a DE, and if they take a DE, I see the best players early in round 2 being LB.  So if the LSU RB goes before us,  don't be surprised if at pick 9 and pick 41 we take a LB and then a DE or a DE and then a LB because Defensive Front 7 Players are loaded at the top in this years draft.  Plus, we could use Front 7 help. 

I'm so glad they are taking a harder look at Foster with the chances of the Bengals Player Personnel Director getting the LSU RB he wants looking very slim with teams ahead of us like Jacksonville keying on the RB. Foster is a great player and maybe best athlete on the board and it should be a great pick for Bengals. Teams will not be able to run on us. If we get Foster, we stop the run. Foster is one of the best run stoppers to come out of college in a long time. That is huge playing Steelers twice a year. It would be great to have an answer for Steelers running backs. Players like Rey are more pass rushers than run stoppers. Foster can flat out stop the run and with Burfict we would have two of the hardest hitters in the NFL. Players running at our defense would get hit HARD by Foster and Burfict. To me the big thing about the 70's Steelers was you could not run on them, nobody could. If you got 20 yards all game, that was a high number. Foster and Burfict could stop the run. It is a real advantage if you can run but the other team can't. It makes it almost impossible to lose

As good as Burfict is, Foster could soon be the best linebacker Marvin Lewis has had since Ray Lewis. Foster IS that good...You have to factor into his run stopping and hard hitting his high motor and team leadership team captain winning attitude that teams are drooling over. I guarantee you I do not want to see Pittsburg, Baltimore or Cleveland get Foster and stop our running backs the next 10 years. Foster is one of those draft picks like Anthony Munoz that you can sense Hall Of Fame Player even as you draft him. Foster should be the heads up team captain of this defense for many years and players like this win Super Bowls.