02-11-2019, 07:07 PM
(02-11-2019, 06:35 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: List of all Bengals Comp Picks in Marvin Era
2003:
7th rd, Elton Patterson, DE
2004:
3rd rd, Landon Johnson, LB
2005:
- - -
2006:
- - -
2007:
7th rd, Chinedum Ndukwe, S
2008:
3rd rd, Andre Caldwell, WR
6th rd, Matt Sherry, TE
7th rd, Angelo Craig, DE
7th rd, Mario Urrutia, WR
2009:
3rd rd, Chase Coffman, TE
6th rd, Bernard Scott, RB
7th rd, Clinton McDonald, DE
7th rd, Freddie Brown, WR
2010:
3rd rd, Brandon Ghee, CB
4th rd, Roddrick Muckleroy, LB
2011:
7th rd, Jay Finley, RB
2012:
- - -
2013:
7th rd, Reid Fragel, OT
7th rd, TJ Johnson, C
2014:
6th rd, Marquis Flowers, LB
7th rd, Lavelle Westbrooks, CB
2015:
3rd rd, Paul Dawson, LB
4th rd, Marcus Hardison, DE
2016:
- - -
2017:
4th rd, Ryan Glasgow, DT
5th rd, JJ Dielman, C
7th rd, Mason Schreck, TE
2018:
5th rd, Darius Phillips, CB
7th rd, Rod Taylor, G
7th rd, Auden Tate, WR
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Gotta love the sweet sweet payoff of avoiding getting good players in FA so you can turn players like Reggie Nelson, Kevin Zeitler, and Andrew Whitworth into preseason legends like Ryan Glasgow, Paul Dawson, and Marcus Hardison a year later.
First of all not all of the players we let go were worth the money they got in free agency. Would you have rather we paid Stacy Andrews in excess of $40 million instead of letting him go?
Second, we don't just get picks, we also get the salary cap room. If we keep Nelson, Whitworth, and Zeitler then we have to cut a lot of guys from our 2016 roster. Those three earned about $37 million in 2016. The Bengals spent $157.6 million that year which was actually more than the league salary cap of $155.3 million. They were able to do that because they had cap space to roll over from the previous year, but they would have had to cut a lot of players to keep Whit, Zeitler, and Nelson because they had less than $5 million in cap space.
And finally, the comp picks effect the entire draft. For example, do we still use a 4th round pick on a DT in 2010 (Geno Atkins) if we had not addressed CB with our third round comp pick?
