Double-dip at WR this year?

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(01-21-2020, 09:20 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: No I don't count some athlete from Ferris State who has been cut from multiple practice squads and is going to be 27 years old and has zero NFL stats. Do you realize how desperate we were for LB help last year? We do need to draft multiple LBs to fill out the depth chart. I am not OK with just accepting barely practice squad caliber LBs to try to fix our biggest weakness. 

I'm not sure what you are looking at. Please fill in the blanks after Pratt and Evans. And don't give some 27 year old about to wash out of the league. And Vigil is more of a question mark to return than AJ. 

And yes I am counting the best player on our team. AJ Green is not going anywhere. If he is healthy he will be catching TDs from Burrow.

We have 3 veterans on the OL to offer advice and help young guys. Hopkins, Miller, and Hart. We have coaches who were hired and are paid to develop players. We need to build around our future franchise player. We start by protecting him. Rolling with a paper thin OL group filled out by UDFAs and guys picked up on waivers is not the way I want to build the team around our new QB. We only have 3 offensive linemen on the team who came to us with one of our draft picks. 2 of those came last year.... After a 2-14 season now is not the time to stop trying to fix the OL.

He's under contract.  You can't just omit him because you think he sucks.  LB's are relatively cheap in FA and there's always serviceable vets floating around.

AJ hasn't been our best player for like a year and half.  So you're going to back the Brink's truck up to his door and hope he doesn't get another season ending injury so you can forgo drafting WR's in one of the deepest classes ever.  They can get a good G and LB with what they'd have to pay AJ and not have to luck into a good rookie starter in the draft.

You can't be serious with that UDFA/waiver line.  You realize 5 of the 8 WR's we have under contract for next year are UDFA's and two of them were cut by other teams, right?  Of the remaining 3, 1 is a 7th rounder and 2 have a fairly extensive injury history.