Do You Realize How Long It Has Been?

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(05-04-2021, 12:45 PM)Fullrock Wrote: No, not since the last playoff win...we are all well aware of that.

Do you realize how long it has been since the Bengals first round draft pick has had a significant impact in their rookie season while also staying healthy?

2020 Joe Burrow: Significant impact? Yes. Stayed healthy? No
2019 Jonah Williams: Significant impact? No. Stayed Healthy? No (missed entire season)
2018 Billy Price: Significant impact? No. Stayed Healthy? No
2017 John Ross: Significant impact? No. Stayed healthy? No (played 1 game)
2016 William Jackson: Significant impact? No. Stayed healthy? No (missed entire season)
2015 Cedric Ogbuehi: Significant impact? No. Stayed healthy? No (was still recovering from torn ACL)
2014 Darqueze Dennard: Significant impact? No. Stayed healthy? Yes
2013 Tyler Eifert: Significant impact? No. Stayed healthy? Ironically yes

You have to go back to 2012 to find a first round pick who had a significant impact his rookie season while also staying healthy. That player was Kevin Zeitler who started all 16 games in 2012.

Sure would be nice to break that horrible streak this year.

On this depressing note, I have to make it even more depressing:  I don't think Dennard was healthy his rookie year, either.

This is a startling run of failures.  I have high hopes for Chase, because he wants to win and he doesn't hope it happens, but he is the kind of player that will make it happen.  He won't have the rookie fatigue, since he opted out, and he kept himself in great condition.  

The odds, it would appear, are in our favor for a massive reversal of fortune when it comes to this horrible statistical run.