05-01-2017, 04:02 PM
(05-01-2017, 02:43 PM)Benton Wrote: I think that was a big part of my issue with the first two picks. Lots of folks are saying "it was BPA" but it felt like reaches on both.
I'm really not opposed to Ross or Mixon... I just didn't like where we took either. If we're going to go BPA, lets go BPA.
A poll of 16 NFL scouts had 6 saying that Ross was the top WR among the "big 3" (there was a huge drop off in talent level after that). That was more than both Davis and Williams, who went before Ross. Many mocks had Ross going to the Bengals at 9, and some of the players that many thought were better prospects than Ross fell much further than anyone thought they would.
Derek Barnett went 14th
Malik Hooker went 15th
Jonathan Allen went 17th
OJ Howard went 19th
Taco Charlton went 28th
Reuben Foster went 31st
Were these players really better than Ross...considering what scouts said about him? Or were these players that slipped well past our pick worse than what we thought?
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