Ranking All NFL Teams 5-year Success by Draft Class

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(11-21-2017, 03:09 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Are we a great drafting team as many claim? (This is from August 2017)

Well our past 5 years of draft classes rank:
26.

Tyler Eifert is the only Bengal currently on the roster to crack the top 100 individual players (guard Kevin Zeitler left for Cleveland in free agency). Health has been a reoccurring issue during Eifert’s young career, but when on the field he’s proved to be a dynamic talent, as he’s led NFL tight ends each of the last two seasons in deep ball catch rate.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-teams-five-year-success-by-draft-class

This tends to back my assertion that we've been living off of 2 great classes (Green, Dalton, Boling and Dunlap, Atkins)...with most of our recent drafts being Below Average.

Who has said we are a great drafting team? I can't speak for others, but we need quicker and more production from our top 2 picks each year. Looking back, it has not happened, in fact it is so bad of results it is frightening. It is hard to be successful building through the draft as 95% of your roster plan, then missing, but then sticking to the plan versus adapting and adding some key free agents or keeping guys like Whittworth at all costs.