Bengals draft tendency

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(01-20-2022, 01:50 PM)Whatever Wrote: I understand that philosophy, but it gets tough when you're picking in that 25-32 range.  If you're picking in that range, you probably don't have a lot of holes where a guy taken in that spot came come in and start quickly.  It's also rare that value and need intersect in those spots.  

For example, most of us tentatively have CB as a 1st round need(assuming we dump Wayne's).  If there's a run on CB's before our pick, do you take a CB you've got a 2nd round grade on that could still start early or take a WR in Williams that you've got a Top 10 grade on?  

Personally, I'm more of a fill your holes in FA/draft BPA guy, but I get that that philosophy also has it's pitfalls.

I don't typically like to reach for a 2nd rounder into the 1st, so what I'd do instead is look for a player at a position that doesn't have great starters.
OL, LB, and even TE come to mind if not DB.

Try to fill what holes you can in FA, but you won't be able to turn every starter at all positions into above average just through FA.