Welcom to the team, Drew Sample!

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(04-26-2019, 11:29 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Keep in mind that if the Bengals agreed that he was a 4th round prospect, they wouldn't have taken him in the 2nd round.

This draft was very good in the first round and is very deep in the 3rd to 6th round range.

There just weren't that many 2nd round prospects that one would consider "slam dunks" or even immediate starters.

Even now, I'm looking at the 2nd round and while there are prospects that I would have preferred we take, there are none that I feel like would have made me excited.

If this pick fits what the Bengals want to do on Offense, I can live with the selection. Especially since we got our rangy LB in the 3rd round anyway (and Mack Wilson is still on the board, meaning he would have been a reach at 42 or 52 as well. Just so we'rd keeping track.)

This. I don't often say "the team knows better than you" but lets be honest. I trust Tobin and crew more than "anonymous mock draft site". They felt the guy would be gone before their 3rd round pick and obviously valued him. The problem here is that we'll never know if they were right (that some other team would've nabbed him), so we assume based on anonymous draft site that we reached.

TL/DR: Maybe we didn't reach as badly as people think. Draft sites are wrong all the time. Go back and look at some mocks after this draft is over for a good laugh.