Tra Carson waived; Bengals sign Thomas Rawls

[BengalChris]

(09-20-2018, 07:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Hill has been in the NFL for three years and still could not make an active roster.  He got signed to Atlanta's practice squad.

Believe it or not NFL coaches and scouts can see potential in players that you can't.  Walton is a rookie with room to improve.  Hill is not going to suddenly get better after three years.

The Bengals coaches have no reason to keep Walton if Hill was the better player.  So clearly when looking at Walton they see potential for him to be better than Hill.

Considering that Hill is on an active roster I would say that he has something.

Players play for a roster spot in preseason and, generally speaking, their production during preseason should determine the roster spot. In Walton's case, he didn't get it done at all while Hill did. There's really no arguing that point since the Hill clearly had the best RB stats and this got him invited to Atlanta.

Walton's numbers were bad enough that the Bengals could have stashed him on the practice squad with little chance of another team claiming him. He could then work on reaching his potential without costing the team a roster spot.

That's my point. Right now, this very day, Hill offers a team more than Walton. So does Carson for that matter.

Just maybe no one in the organization wants to admit the 4th round error. It's not like this organization hasn't kept a bad player just because of his draft position before. Cough, Ogbuehi, cough, cough.