Report: Burrow pushing for Bengals to draft Chase

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(04-09-2021, 01:53 PM)ochocincos Wrote: What does "starter" grade mean?

Looking back at the Bengals' picks, they don't usually take guys who start on Week 1 of their rookie year.
They take guys who they think could grow into good players eventually, and as such they usually have a veteran (or two) in front of them.

Ogbuehi and Fisher had Whitworth and Smith in front of them their rookie year, and then Whitworth the following year.

Ross was the WR3/4 when he was drafted. Green, LaFell, and Boyd were ahead of him.

Eifert and Uzomah were ahead of Sample his rookie year.

So none of those guys were expected to start right away, and maybe not even expected to be the starter (at least for Ross and Sample).
But they were expected to be contributors.

One can obviously argue whether they should have gone where they did, but the thing that can't be argued is that the coaches thought all of those guys were worth taking to become eventual significant contributors. They also likely thought they had to take those guys when they did because they wouldn't be available the next time they picked.

It was a reply to someone saying he had starter grades on round 3 OL. 

My point was and still is very simple. Tobin isn't the best at talent evaluation and I really would love to see a true GM come in here and have the power to over-rule bad decisions.

I know all teams whiff on picks, but we had some awful runs prior to the last two years with Taylor and company. (I'm still leery of Jonah Williams since he is looking a lot like Eifert and Lawson, talented but unavailable, but that is more on the medical staff not seeing the injury before we drafted him.)