Chase v Sewell

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(04-24-2021, 01:47 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Agreed. Sewell makes your 2nd round pick truly BPA among our positions of need. They can pick between guard, tackle, center, DE, DT, WR or maybe even TE in the 2nd round if Sewell was their first choice. 

If they go Chase at 5, they need to take whoever is left at OT/OG at 38 regardless of who else is available. Not only does that cut down on their flexibility, but it also makes them SUPER predictable and when other teams can predict what you're going to do, they can easily trade in front of you to take away the player you were targeting (See Detroit trading in front of us to snag Ragnow, Pitt trading in front of us to snag Bush and everyone trading in front of us to take OTs in the 2019 second round).

The less predictable and more flexible we are in the second round, the better. 

Not really. If you go Chase at 5, you have to take an OL in 2.  If you take Sewell, you have to take an X WR in 2.

You can't let your (admittedly washed up) starting X WR walk, not address it in FA, and kick the can down the draft board when your HC's seat is heating up and he runs an offense that puts 3+ WR's on the field over 80% of the time.  You can't set your own HC up to fail, can him, then expect to get anyone with options to come here.

The other issue is the way the board falls.  There are a ton of OL in the 25-50 range and a lot of different ways the Bengals could go to address OL.  They could draft a G.  They could draft a C and move Trey to G.  They could draft a T and kick either Reiff or the rookie to G.  That means the Bengals have flexibility and while a team could probably guess they are going OL, who they are exactly targeting is hard to pin down and the abundance of quality talent in that range makes it unappealing to give up picks to move up.  With X WR, there are only 2 guys(Bateman and Marshall) in the 25 to 50 range.  There is also a huge gap between Marshall in the mid30's to Dyami Brown in the mid 60's.  Obvious need+limited options=recipe to get jumped for the guy you need.