09-05-2017, 04:11 PM
(09-05-2017, 09:42 AM)ochocincos Wrote: So then yes, you are by definition jumping the gun.
I get the concern. There were plenty leading up to the draft saying he was an injury risk waiting to happen, especially due to the microfracture surgery.
But my argument has always been that he showed he could play a full season on those knees, and he was dominant.
Luckily, Ross shouldn't have to be a major factor this year due to the WRs in front of him, and anyone who thought that Ross was somehow going to vault to WR2 just because of his draft position doesn't really understand how the Bengals operate.
I'm curious to know which player you would have taken in the draft since you have been so against the Ross pick?
I have said a few times: Foster was my unanimous #1. Allen and Howard were 1B and then Hooker and Engram on the radar.
The drafting of Lawson and Willis and Mixon after round 1 was great.
Hell, they could have traded down, in the first for an additional second rnd pick, say from 9 to 20-26, taken Cam Robinson, Ramczky or best available, then picked up a Smit- Shuster or Curtis Samuel in the second with mixon.
We have drafted miserably in the 1st over the last 4 years
