If Penei was drafted at 5, is this a playoff team?

[Murdock2420]

The real issue with this argument (outside of it shouldn't be happening with the team headed to the playoffs) is that there is absolutely no way to know what happens after the pick. Maybe it changes every pick, maybe just the 1st two? Who knows. Maybe they don't go for Carman since they'd have Reiff to move inside and they take Creed instead or they take a different edge or a WR or a CB or who knows.

If the Bengals take Sewell and then get St Brown in 4 then they most likely have the same win total. I'd guess they lose a game or two early while chemistry was built and then win a game or two later that the team struggled in due to Reiff's injury and the OL not getting push for Mixon. St. Brown showed you can get elite WR play outside round one, just like Creed showed you can find elite OL play outside of round one. It's over with, and we won't have a real understanding of how it looks until 3 or 4 years from now since that is about how long it takes to judge a draft class.

Also, this thread is really disrespectful to Hilton, Awuzie, Hendrickson, B.J. Hill, Eli Apple (can't believe I had to type that) and even Burrow to a degree as he is coming back and being healthy. The list of FA's they added, having a healthy Burrow and instead we have a thread that says, the team is basically in the playoffs because of one draft pick. I'd take the FA's they added and a healthy Burrow over any of the 1st rounders they could have had in terms of importance to the team this season.