Grade This Years Draft

[CJD]

(04-30-2017, 12:04 AM)eoxyod Wrote: This is the most boom or bust draft we've ever had. If we get through it with Ross being great, Mixon out of trouble, 1 of the DL being good, 1 of the DL being a good rotational player, and whatever the K name is be above average we will be lucky

I don't see this draft as any more boom or bust than any other draft.

We took athletically gifted players at each round.

That's about all you can ask out of a draft nowadays.

I remember being absolutely thrilled with the 2013 draft.

We took athletically gifted players throughout the 7 rounds. Some of them worked out. Many of them didn't.

Same with the 2015 draft. 

Injuries can ruin any player, whether they had an injury history or not.

The only truly risky pick I see is the Mixon pick. And that's not for medical reasons, but because of his off field stuff. The good news is even he has been very well behaved for the last 3 years. So I think the risk of him is overplayed. It's mostly just the bad PR that he's giving the Bengals that is a problem.