Report: Burrow pushing for Bengals to draft Chase

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(04-12-2021, 02:12 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: I'll double check, but I made it back to the 70's without a Top 5 WR being winning a Super Bowl with the team that drafted him.

That's scary.

Give me a few, I'll see what the top 5 for QBs and OT's looks like.


Edit:

Already found 2 OT's taken top 5 who won a Super Bowl for the team that drafted them.

Lane Johnson with the Eagles

Eric Fisher with the Chiefs

And I have 7 more drafts to check.

Several years ago, RoyalRedLegs/Berserker and I were questioning whether we should resign AJ Green for exactly this reason. The elite big name WRs rarely win it all. Top WRs cost nearly as much as QBs...but if you have a top QB, you really don't need a Megatron caliber WR.

Finding a top QB, surrounding him with good - not necessarily elite - weapons, and using the rest of your money to fill out the line and defense seems to be the way teams have generally won titles.

This is exactly why I want Sewell over Chase. I view Burrow as an elite QB in the making. Our WRs are adequate and just need an infusion of speed. So now I just want to build up our o-line and defense.

Also consider how much cap you'd have to use to retain an elite QB and an elite WR. You'd be spending 1/3rd of your total cap on the pass game alone, and that's not even including o-line.

So elite QBs are important not only for their play on the field, but the freedom they give you to not spend big on a WR, which allows you to allocate money elsewhere.