Kat Terrell article on John Ross says no teams willing to trade up to 9

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Here is Kat Terrell's article on why John Ross has been a healthy scratch.
http://www.espn.com/blog/cincinnati-bengals/post/_/id/28987/from-no-9-overall-pick-to-healthy-scratch-why-bengals-john-ross-cant-see-the-field

While I feel the John Ross topic itself has been posted a lot, this line stuck out to me....

Quote:It would be easy now to call Ross a reach at No. 9 overall, but Lewis said no other teams were interested in trading up in the draft at the time.

This is good to know because many people were saying the Bengals should have just traded back to get more picks and take Ross or whoever else later in the first round. As it turns out, no one else wanted to trade up to 9 so the Bengals were forced to take the player they wanted at that spot even if it may have seemed like a "reach".