Bengals Injuries per PFF

[BengalChris]

(06-28-2021, 09:51 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Plenty of injuries to perfectly healthy players.

Like I said before.  If you only draft players with no injury history then you are going to miss out on many of the best players in the draft.

And, finally, scouts are not doctors.  No matter how small our scouting department is I am sure the Bengals check out all the same medical records that other NFL teams do.

Sure, but no reason to spend a 1st round pick on an injured player. Sure you might miss out on a good player who will help you down the road. But if you can get a good player who can help you *this* season, then that would be a better choice, IMO. Why lose a year of production, especially for a team with so many damned holes.

(06-28-2021, 11:00 AM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: In the study referenced more weighting was given to losing more significant players - losing 7th round pick back-up, back-up guard Rod Taylor to a broken leg will have barely registered (if at all). My recollection is that that study showed that the Bengals didn't have more players on IR so much as they had more valuable players on IR.

The most significant injuries in recent seasons were probably AJ Green, Geno Atkins and Joe Burrow.

Which of those players wouldn't you draft knowing what you now know?

I suspect the Bengals' issue was the distribution of injuries happened to randomly fall on their better players. The one caveat would be that as a struggling team their best players were maybe less likely to rush back for games where all at stake was draft position.

Yeah, I don't think we're talking about late round guys though. Ross, Price, Ogbuehi and Jonah Williams were all 1st round guys who arrived with existing injuries. Only Williams appears promising.

Ross over Mahomes, Lattimore, Reddick, Barnette, Allen, McKinely, Watt, Ramczyk. Wow, does that sting.

I've got no problem with them taking RBs Trayveon Williams and Rodney Anderson in the 6th round in 2019.