Can We Win With Our Small Scouting Department?

[THE PISTONS]

(03-04-2019, 03:36 PM)NKURyan Wrote: In the last few years, they've taken Bates, Hubbard, Mixon, Willis, Lawson, Elliot, Boyd, Vigil, and Billings in the mid round. These are all contributing players in the NFL (though Elliot is doing it elsewhere). That's not counting guys like Tate, Malone, Glasgow, and Westerman that people think at the least have potential to become contributors in the future.

Not only that, many of these guys were viewed as reaches (Hubbard and Lawson come to mind), but the Bengals saw something others didn't.

And that's in more recent years, not even mentioning grabbing Shawn Williams, Geno Atkins, Micheal Johnson, Rex Burkhead, Mo Sanu, Marvin Jones, Clint Bolling, Kevin Huber...

Contributors on a 6-10 team.

Bates, Mixon, and Boyd are all good players.

The other guys on the list show potential...but due to health or other issues are inconsistent. Maybe they improve.

We've missed on 3 of 4 1st Round picks lately.