Some will hate this but it's a SB Roster IMO

[*ochocincos*]

(02-23-2022, 05:30 PM)casear2727 Wrote: Some will hate this, but I think this roster provides a great chance at multiple runs to the Super Bowl and still have $12.4M in cap space for rookies and other free agents.

Offseason transactions:

Cut:   Waynes, Hopkins

Trade:     Tyler Boyd to Miami for 2nd Round Pick

Resign:    Bates (14.5), (Hill, 7.8), Flowers (2.6), Morgan (965k), Harris (1.1)

Acquire:   Rasul Douglas, CB (7), Trent Brown, RT (10), Austin Corbett, OG (9M), Ryan Jensen, C (12M)


Draft:
1st Wyatt, DT, UGA
2nd Trey McBride, TE, CSU  (from Miami)
2nd Wan’dale Robinson, Slot, UK
3rd Kellen Diesch, OT, ASU
4th Cole Strange, OG, UCT
5th Cordale Flott, CB, LSU
6th ZaQuandre White, RB USC
7th Matt Araiza, P, SDSU (may not be available in the 7th, but was in the simulators)
7th Jack Coan, QB, ND


DT is solid with Hill and Wyatt

TE:  McBride > CJ

Slot: Boyd > Robinson today, but Wan’Dale is explosive and $9M cheaper per year.

Oline is solid with starters: Williams, Carmen/Strange, Jensen, Corbett, Brown
Diesch, Smith, Prince, Adeniji as backups

CB is secure with Douglas (5 INTS for GB), Awuzie, Flott, Flowers, Hilton.

RB2 - White is very underrated and replaces Perine.

QB2 - Coan battle for spot

P - not sure Araiza is available at 7 despite simulators but if so he is has a cannon for a leg.

I like Corbett, Brown, and Jensen additions, but I doubt the Bengals make a C their highest-paid OL.
C has always been one of the least-valued positions on OL for the Bengals in the past, next to RG.

One thing that will raise A LOT of concern is gambling on either Carman or this 4th round pick Strange to adequately handle starting LG duties.
Carman didn't do enough this past year to give confidence of solidifying a starting spot, and a 4th round pick is never safe to bet on starting and playing well as a rookie.
I think if you at least re-signed Spain or drafted someone like Zion Johnson at 31 to compete with Carman, you'd have less worry.
You could swap out Wyatt for Johnson and then swap out Strange for someone like Matthew Butler, the 3T from Tennessee.