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(11-18-2023, 05:22 AM)Whatever Wrote: Being fair, the Bengals wanted Ragnow.  They just painted themselves into a corner by locking in on drafting a C in the 1st and panicked and took Price when Ragnow went off the board in front of them.

Sewell has been a good player, but he's also turned out to be the 3rd best T in that class behind Darrisaw and Slater, so I don't know how much credit you can really give their scouts on that one.  That was honestly such a stupid stacked class that you could have put the Top 10 prospects on a dart board and you'd have gotten a stud.

Being equally fair, the Bengals could have had Frank Ragnow, but they swapped their 1st round pick with the Bills in the Cordy Glenn trade (which is another bad mark for the Bengals scouting/choosing OL). The Bengals originally would have had the 12th pick that year and Ragnow went 20th.

Also if you want a guy, go up and get him, they ended up with three 5th rounders and three 7th rounders. Heck, 5 of the guys they drafted that year (3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 7th) either never played a single game for the Bengals, or only lasted 1 year on the roster.

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Not sure how you say Slater and Darrisaw are clearly ahead. All are good but Darrisaw keeps missing games every year and Slater also missed almost an entire year. 

Sewell missed exactly 1 game, because of COVID, and in another game he missed 6% of the snaps. He's played 100% of the snaps in every other game the Lions have played.

Equal talent goes to the more available guy every time.