03-04-2019, 03:36 PM
(03-04-2019, 01:07 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Do we make a killing in the draft? Is a team that hasn't won a playoff game in 27+ years really great at drafting?
When you don't sign free agents, your guys have to play. From metrics I've seen we grade out towards the bottom third of the league in drafting.
In the last few years, they've taken Bates, Hubbard, Mixon, Willis, Lawson, Elliot, Boyd, Vigil, and Billings in the mid round. These are all contributing players in the NFL (though Elliot is doing it elsewhere). That's not counting guys like Tate, Malone, Glasgow, and Westerman that people think at the least have potential to become contributors in the future.
Not only that, many of these guys were viewed as reaches (Hubbard and Lawson come to mind), but the Bengals saw something others didn't.
And that's in more recent years, not even mentioning grabbing Shawn Williams, Geno Atkins, Micheal Johnson, Rex Burkhead, Mo Sanu, Marvin Jones, Clint Bolling, Kevin Huber...
