Grade This Years Draft

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

-Really like Ross as a player, but concerned about his medical, even more so at #9 overall.
-Mixon is the last thing the Bengals needed to bring into the city/team.
-Willis looks like a good pick, but will probably need a year to fill out that 255lb to a more respectable 4-3 DE weight.
-Lawson's injuries give him pause, but could be good.
-Malone should be a good 4th rounder.
-Glasgow is an uninspiring pick for me. Don't like it.
-Eliott (who I am probably always going to call Scrappy Doo) doesn't do it for me either.
-Dielman sounds like one of the few people around who could actually make this OL weaker.
-Evans is intriguing.
-Wilson, I need to see what they plan on using him as in order to judge.
-Schreck seems like a UDFA.


Not a terrible draft, not a great draft. I voted C+, because I refuse to accept a world where A- or if you're going on a 10 scale, a 7 is "meh". This draft relies an awful lot on ignoring injury histories and off-field issues in order to be a good one, but could indeed be good. So... C+. Considered making it a flat C or C- because the Bengals didn't fix the OL at all, and didn't get an insurance plan for when (not if) Eifert goes down.