Combine Expectations

[SunsetBengal]

(03-01-2020, 02:18 PM)WVUHomer Wrote: While these injuries are tough for the kids, does this in turn become a benefit for Cincy? How far does both Queen and Shenault drop? To our 2nd and 3rd rounder perhaps?

Injuries not just tough for the players, but for the teams that end up drafting them.  Those teams are losing valuable developmental time with those players, as they recover well enough from a hamstring in order to try to catch up to speed at some point in the year.  Hamstring issues are tricky, they typically don't just "heal up completely" with a month or two of rest.  They typically come back to nag, relapse, flare up, etc. at the most inopportune times, for the duration of the season.

So, is a team really getting such a "bargain" when players fall, due to things like pulled hamstrings in running stupid track style events at the combine?  More than likely what happens is a guy that probably would have been a day 1 starter, gets to spend the bulk of his season coming off the bench, and effectively costing the team 25% of the value of his rookie deal.  That's just my opinion on the matter, I'm sure others see it quite differently.