02-01-2024, 05:31 PM
(01-31-2024, 07:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Equally irritating is if people pretend there wasn't a whole boatload of red flags about John Ross and those red flags weren't overlooked because speed.
John Ross was a <5'11" and <190lb WR who had had one knee with an ACL tear, the other knee with 3 meniscus tears. He had a torn labrum his draft offseason that got surgery that December, and then he injured his calf running his 40 yard dash.
He had exactly 1 year of production and in that year he got absolutely shut down by Alabama (5 catches for 28 yards (5.6 AVG).
Then here comes the NFL and he gets an injured knee and ends up on the IR with a shoulder injury. Then he pulls his groin, pulls his groin again. Then he goes on IR with yet another shoulder injury.
Ross had missed the entire previous year and then after his one productive season he needed shoulder surgery. He hurt himself running his 40.
He was a small fragile dude with small hands and had only played WR for an entire year once. He missed 2015 entirely, in 2014 he was a part-time WR and part-time CB, and in 2013 he was a return specialist.
All this and then some. Take Ross in the second round and I can live with its. He was always a top 10 bust even before the pick. It was all over him. And it only was his speed that got him picked at 9. And the bengals were the idiots on draft day. Ross is a tiny little guy in a very big tough game in a big and tough division his body with his speed was not built for nfl ball. U don’t go tiny in the top 10 bengals did and they paid heavily. Just stop already with the Ross pre draft hype he was more than a red flag he was a black flag. He should’ve never been our pick. Horrible horrible top 10 prospect.
