Double-dip at WR this year?

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(01-20-2020, 01:02 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Hell no. We probably can not even afford to draft one WR this year. We have 2 LBs under contract. CB needs attention. John Jerry, Andre, and Cordy were starters at points last year. All will be gone. OL needs picks. Eifert should have played his last snap as a Bengal.

We have 5 locks at WR right now. AJ, Boyd, Ross, Tate, and Erickson. And just spent a whole year developing Morgan and Willis.

We have much more urgent needs elsewhere

I don't think the team looks at O line as the blight that the fans do. After they changed the blocking scheme later in the year the line played much better. They are getting Jonah Williams back next year to play tackle. They added Fred Johnson on waivers later in the year and he looked good in his limited live game action and supposedly they are really high on him, so much so he could be the RT next year and Hart moves to swing tackle. Jordan was better down the stretch at LG and I don't envision them bailing on him after only a year. The fan base won't want to hear it but I'd expect maybe one linemen taken somewhere on day 3.

In terms of LB Taylor has hinted that we possibly will go out to FA to solve that issues. It makes sense as you probably aren't going to stick another rookie next to Pratt. Adding a veteran presence there makes sense and it would seem like Vigil will be back after his play picked up down the back stretch. 

CB does in fact need attention and I could see one going as early as pick 33. We could even potentially double dip here, however Phillips looked good when he got to spot start late and so you may have a situation where they resign Dennard and grab a low tier FA and go into the year with WJ3, Kirkpatrick, Dennard, Phillips and FA. Even if they were to move on from Kirkpatrick I think you'd be okay with Phillips and Dennard along with a FA/Rookie.

WR is still an issue as AJ being here is not set in stone. I think a lot of it will come down to what we do with AJ, but don't sleep on value you just can't pass up. If Tee Higgins is there at pick 33 or if KJ Hamler is there at 65 I think they would consider pulling the trigger. John Ross will be on the last year of his deal as we won't pick up his 5th year option, Erickson will be on the last year of his deal, and AJ has been injury prone three of the last four years. WR is actually in a very similar situation as CB when you look at it.