The Ja'Marr Chase Thread

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(08-12-2021, 10:17 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: The WR pool would have been decent to good but pretty thin on playmakers if they pass on it in rds 1 and two. 

This is the Bengals. With what they had and how confident they were in them, there's no way they go Oline 2 straight rounds after picking up Reiff and targeting guys (which they always do) later in the draft. 

I don't think they would have ever signed Reiff if Sewell was their target.  If they weren't going to pay Zeitler $7 mil a year to play G, why would they pay Reiff that and try to move him to G?  Likely, they would have held onto Hart until at least the draft as insurance if they were going Sewell.  

The Bengals were never going to wait until Day 3 to get an X WR.  The class was thin at X and they needed an immediate starter.  My guess is they would have gone Marshall in 2.  With a lot of teams having late 1st round grades on him at least until the injury stuff broke, it would not be hard to see the team not feeling comfortable trading down.  They likely still would have gone Ossai in 3 due to value intersecting with need and passed on Sample in 4 and maybe addressing DT with Shelvin or another player.  

The argument about depth is a little silly, IMO.  We don't really know what else the Bengals would or wouldn't have done if they took Sewell, so it's impossible to argue that the depth would be better or worse.