Hmm..1st Round OT bust in Tenn.

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(02-16-2021, 07:10 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: To listen to some Bengals fans, we are only team to miss on 1st round draft picks.

The problem is that the Bengals are so heavily reliant on the draft to get their talent that a missed 1st round pick hurts more for the Bengals than it does most other teams.

Bengals miss on a 1st rounder and he hangs around 3-4 years adding negative value.
Another team misses on a 1st rounder and they have FA and trades to try to fill that gap.

The Broncos took Tim Tebow in the 1st round in 2010, they had a good team around them, so they went out and signed Peyton Manning and added some more other pieces in FA. They went to 1 SB and won another.

The Buccaneers took Jameis Winston 1st overall and while he wasn't bad, he never took the next step despite having a ton of talent around him. So did they draft another QB, or stick with Winston? No, they went out, got Brady, and won a SB.

Other teams are able to make up for missed draft picks easier than the Bengals with their mode of operation.

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I don't know the full rankings, but they have drafted 1 Pro Bowler in the last 9 drafts, and that was Eifert, who only had the 1 year.

That's 1 out of the last 89 Bengals draft picks. That's not good.