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(04-03-2020, 11:28 AM)Synric Wrote: I'm not as high on the big 3 linebackers like everyone else.

Zack Baun is an edge defender that wants to switch to stack linebacker.

Patrick Queen is a solid coverage linebacker but is slow to read the run and his lack of length shows up in missed tackles in space.

Kenneth Murray is out of control he is all athleticism. Bad angles poor tackling and we have no idea what he will look like in coverage because Oklahoma rarely asked him to do it.

I think the guy that is criminally underrated is Troy Dye. We are talking about one of the better linebackers over the last 3 seasons. He has been a top coverage linebackers in college football, very good as a blitzer, and a tackling machine. His 2019 tape isn't as good as the previous two years is why he's falling but he also was playing with a broken thumb in a clubbed glove and a partially torn meniscus even then he still graded out as PFFs second highest linebacker 90.5.

This is where we should be focusing our efforts....analyzing what will most likely be the top of the day 3 LBs.  I seriously doubt Queen is still there and Murray doesn't fit their need.  I am betting they slide in Rd 2 and get offensive line help or WR.  It would have to be a really highly ranked WR like Mims or HIggins, but I think they would more likely look for a top tackle prospect that might be able to play guard and get the WR in Rd 3...hoping a guy like Bryan Edwards or Chase Claypool is still there.  

I think unless it is a guy like Queen, the Bengals will go for day 3 LBs like Troy Dye, Akeem Davis-Gaiter, Willie Gay, David Woodward, Jacob Phillips (can't believe he is being projected as a day 3 by some), and two guys I really like:  Logan Wilson and Evan Weaver.  I could see the Bengals adding someone like Akeem Davis-Gaither with a late3 rd round pick gained from sliding in rd 2, and then getting a guy like Logan Wilson in the top of Rd 4.