I watched the Buckeyes today and saw a team with more talent than the Bengals

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(10-26-2019, 08:02 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: You are comparing drafts over 4 years with 1 team this year.  That doesn't really support your argument that this year's Ohio State team is better than the worst pro team.  You can't add up 4 years worth of players to state a current college team has better players than a pro team. It doesn't work that way.   

Even adding up all those last 4 years of drafts the majority of Ohio State starters never made it in the pros.    Maybe I should have been more clear, I don't know.   The very best college teams often have a small number of players each year that are good enough to even make it to the pros and out of those even fewer that are good enough to be NFL starters..  But I didn't think that needed explaining.

I'm comparing drafts over 4 years because that's *roughly* how long a player is in college. Redshirt, play 3-4 years, get drafted.

A lot of those players were on the same team together. Justin Fields isn't going to be drafted in 2020 because he's not eligible yet, but he's still on the same team with Chase Young, who will be a Top-3 pick in the 2020 draft. If Justin Fields were allowed by the rules to be drafted in 2020, he'd be drafted. It doesn't make him less talented, it's just how the system works. You have to look at multiple years of drafts in order to judge a team. For the 2019 Buckeyes, you'll have to look at the 2020-2023 NFL Drafts.

If you wanted to cut back the 4 years to just a 3 year span, it really didn't change much. The 2016-2018 drafts were very heavy in Ohio State players. It's not their fault they are forced into unpaid labor for a minimum of 3 years before they're allowed to be drafted in the NFL.

I didn't think how NFL draft eligibility works needed explaining.