The 90's Are Coming

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(11-26-2018, 04:14 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: As far as I’m concerned the Cincinnati Bengals can go one of two directions:

1.  Retain the current coaching staff, let the best players leave via trade or free agency to competitive teams, and continue to use the franchise as a farm team for the elite teams in the NFL.

2.  Attract the best coaching talent with positive playoff experience either at the college or professional level.  

It’s easy to forget players like Billy Price, Dre Kirkpatrick, AJ Green, Andre Smith, Cedric Ogbuehi, Jake Fisher, Andy Dalton, Darqueze Dennard — and let’s even go back to Carson Palmer — were all highly rated players in college yet in the NFL only AJ Green and sometimes Andy Dalton play to the potential they demonstrated in college.

Somehow college studs become Bengal duds.

Everyone who gets drafted in the NFL were highly rated in college.

There's roughly over 16,000 NCAA players eligible for the draft every year, and only 64 go in the first 2 rounds (the cream of the crop). That's 192 people drafted in the first 2 rounds 2015-2017 out of roughly 48,000 eligible players, or 0.4%.

In the 2015-2017 drafts, there were 19 Pro Bowlers in the first two rounds (out of the 192 total).

So even if you look at just the cream of the crop out of college the previous three years, still only 9.89% are Pro Bowlers.

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The Bengals certainly don't get the most out of the players they draft, but the argument that "they were highly rated in college" is a bad one.