Devin White

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(01-10-2019, 12:30 PM)YsCascadia Wrote: Great Answer.  However if Ford is really as good as you are projecting him to be, then maybe he should be our 1st round pick.  I don't think he will make it to the 2nd based off of what you have stated.  However there is a chance he does make it to us in the 2nd and I can see your point in taking a guy that definitely won't be there.

I am not sold on Devin White though.  Will he be a 1st rounder?  Yep.  Will he make it to us in the 2nd?  Nope. 

I am not saying that.  What I am saying is that White strikes me as a guy that we select in the 1st round and then doesn't perform to the 1st round expectation.  Very important to understand that I don't think White will be terrible and not be productive.  However a 1st round LBer needs to be a game changer.  I don't see White as a game changer.  I wouldn't hate the pick, but I wouldn't love it either.

Here is a draft profile on him.

https://thedraftnetwork.com/2019/01/05/2019-nfl-draft-player-profile-devin-white/

Talks about a lack of balance and foot work.

While not flashy, I am solely an OLine guy.  I don't care who your LBers are if you have a good / great OLine, you will have success in this league.  OLine to me was worse than LBer (though we do need to address LBers, which I would do in FA), and hell I am so crazy about OLine guys that I would even invest 3 rds to OLine players.  Williams in the 1st, Little or Ford in the 2nd and if the other fell to us in the 3rd (it could happen) grab them.

Odds of missing on OLine is less than on LBer, however we HAVE missed on OLine recently, which is not surprisingly the main reason we have lost many of our games, so I wouldn't mind getting those 3 guys and if they all pan out, you have a great OLine for the next few years, if not, then 1 should at least be serviceable.  Try again next year.

We seem to go FA for LBers more than OLine or at least willing to PAY more for LBers than OLine, so using the draft to get OLine help and FA for LBers would be the way to go.  

While I understand this in principle, our defense was on pace to set NFL records for sucking ass.  The offensive line will get hammered on individual scores through measures like PFF, but what really counts is how they play as a UNIT.  They averaged nearly 5 ypc in the run game.  Dalton was largely kept clean until his weapons started dropping like flies and their replacements weren't able to get open as quickly, forcing him to hold the ball too long.  The offense was rolling before losing the likes of Eifert and Green.  Would a better RT improve them?  Sure, but would the Bengals be a contender with a defense that isn't massively overhauled in the middle?  No way in hell.

I also trust the new Bengals coaches to develop a scheme that plays to their strengths and can help the RT with a TE or RB chip.  There is nothing coaching can do when your LBs can't cover, can't tackle in space, and lack instincts.