Duke Tobin ???

[CJD]

It's so odd because as late as 5 years ago, people were calling Duke Tobin a drafting genius. He is attributed with finding players like Peko, Marv Jones, Geno Atkins and George Iloka in the later rounds while not bombing his first and second round picks.

I remember being low key scared that someone would take him away from us by giving him that coveted GM title.

Even as recently as 2016 he was generally well regarded among Bengals fans, albeit with a few notable misses on his resume (Ogbuehi, Hill, Hunt).

It's really been the last three years that the fan base has soured on him. And you can't blame them for that. The 2015 draft, which initially looked pretty good, yielded absolutely nothing of value, other than a back up TE that we overpaid to keep. The 2017 draft was headed by one of the most frustrating picks in recent memory in John Ross and in 2018 and 2019, the debacles or Billy Price, Malik Jefferson, Drew Sample and Ryan Finley really made him look foolish.

I hope 2020 is the beginning of him reclaiming his former role of "draft genius." Finding another Geno Atkins level player in the 4th round would help his cause in that regard.