Grade the Bengals 2016 Draft

[Benton]

(05-01-2016, 12:16 AM)leonardfan40 Wrote: You are crazy if you think 3 or 4 rookies were gonna make our d line this year. One or 2 was max, and I doubt the bengals felt that they HAD to get any. I would love to see a stud DE, but there really werent many in this draft to begin with and if we grabbed one with anything other than our first pick he probably wouldnt have improved the team much if at all. DT was deep and we got the best one of them all in the 4th round. No reason to waste a pick on a DE who wouldn't make the team any better. Wait until next year and draft one early who will put our D line over the top. 

Like Peko or not he is the starter and was never going to get cut. Peko, Geno, Billings, and one more spot is all we have for pure DT's (Sims, Thompson, and Williams will battle for that, again no way half of our DT's have 0 experience so another would have probably found his way onto IR or the PS). Then Hardison in the swing role. Dunlap, MJ are both locks, premature to give up on Clarke after just two years, and Hunt is the only one who could have been replaced. The bengals are not going to leave themselves with 3-4 players with 0 experience at a position, just won't happen. It's not how they operate and thats a good thing. The only teams that are gonna draft 3-4 players at a spot are desperate teams, and the bengals aren't one of those. 

I don't think anyone wanted peko cut. But he doesn't need to be taking as many snaps as he does. I don't remember the number, but it's above average for a 4-3 NT. Most people wanted to see someone who could help him out (we got that) plus someone who could help out on the ends (we didn't even try). We're heading into one more season with Margus hunt as a rotational end. If that doesn't scream "needs an upgrade" then nothing does. (hunt isn't very good.)