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[SunsetBengal]

(09-16-2019, 02:36 PM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: That's true but you don't just get the high pick in the 1st round. You get a higher pick in the 2nd round as well.

Remember we tried unsuccessfully to trade up in the second round for another O-lineman this year. Imagine last draft we'd had a top 3 pick. We could have traded back in the first round, still picked Jonah Williams but grabbed an extra first/second round pick and then had a second O-lineman Dalton Risner/Cody Ford/Jawaan Taylor etc at the top of the second. All of a sudden we have three cards to play to fix the O-line, instead of just the one we ended up with.

I understand how the draft, and trading of picks process works.  The example that I was responding to was one of QB, and looking forward to next year's draft, rather than looking at this past draft in retrospect.  

FWIW, I still think that the Bengals did the right thing, in drafting Jonah Williams with their 1st round pick.  He was clearly the best LT prospect in the draft, and that is what they needed to be looking at.