"He only did it for one Year..."

[Daddy-O]

(04-21-2020, 02:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yeah, right.  Years of actual NFL draft history is just a bunch of bullshit everyone should ignore.


Being a "one year wonder" is just one piece of information scouts use to evaluate players, just like a forty yard dash time.  It does not automatically mean the player is excluded.  It just means their are some questions.  If a top WR has a bad forty time at the combine teams don't automatically drop the guy in the draft.  Instead they go back and watch more film to see if the slow forty time might be a problem.  Burrow looked great in 2019, but his play in 2018 still creates some questions.  Personally I believe a good bit of his increase in production was due to coaching and the talent around him, but at the same time he has no big flaws that would keep him from being the #1 overall pick.

The funny thing is how some of the same people who claim we should ignore Dalton's one great year love Burrow based on just one great year.  Professional scouts can spot talented QBs even when they are playing on bad teams with poor coaches, and in 2018 not one scout was seeing anything great in Burrow.

All valid points.  At the end of the day the Bengals have the #1 pick, we need a QB (well..... because that's what you do when you have the number 1 overall pick and your current QB is at the end of his 2nd contract - nothing against AD) and Burrow is currently the best of the QB class in the 2020 draft.  

It's really that simple.  Whether or not he is a great pro is TBD.  We're all hoping that's the case.  If it is we have our QB for the next decade and can start making moves to surround him with the best talent possible to make a run at the big prize.