06-15-2021, 12:34 PM
(06-15-2021, 12:04 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: They listed the last 6 first round picks who have all gotten hurt in that article...
Ogbuehi was still recovering from an ACL injury when they drafted him.
Price tore his pec at the scouting combine when they drafted him.
Ross already had a torn labrum that he waited until after the combine to get surgery for. (Not even mentioning his various other college injures.)
Burrow wasn't injury flag, but it was about as predictable as possible that the OL they were trotting out there was going to get him killed.
That's half of those 6 that were *ALREADY* injured when the Bengals drafted them, and another they got injured through predictable negligence.
...and none of those injured players were worth the wait. Except Burrow, but that's a different story. Like you said, we just didn't protect him and everyone saw that injury coming (except those who think QB injuries are 100% luck based and have nothing to do with the QB taking way more hits than usual).
Injured busts like Ogbuehi and Price contributed greatly to us getting Burrow and - ironically - us getting Burrow hurt. Ross being an injured bust made us take Jamarr Chase instead of Sewell, which could lead to Burrow getting hurt again. Almost funny, isn't it?
Makes you realize how a few bad choices can just snowball into wrecking an organization.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
