Andre Smith back mock

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(03-15-2017, 01:30 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: While I completely agree with YOUR reasoning, you have to consider the system that we run.

Where are you going to play him?  We hardly ever (pretty much never) use our LBs on a pass rush.  
I also think (and most "insiders" do as well, that Vigil is going to be given every opportunity to win the starting job)

The more this offseason unfolds, the more I think that there is zero chance we go LB at #9.  I just don't think the team will do it.

Well when Guenther said he's looking at pass rushers of all different shapes and sizes, I assume he'd think of a way to use Reddick as a rusher.

I understand that the three starting LBs are likely Burfict, Rey, and Vigil. I expect Reddick to be a backup LB as a rookie that can be a situational pass rusher.
Burfict could hit FA after this year and Vincent Rey the year after. So given the Bengals like to take 1-2 years to groom draft picks anyway, this could make sense.

As others have said, Reddick might become a better LB than Foster and provides something Foster really doesn't, which is pass rush. He's also bigger than Foster, and doesn't seem to have the "Don't you know who I am?" attitude.