John Ross

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(10-19-2020, 02:59 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Lets not reset history of Price pick now.. we needed a Center.. he was a consensus top 2/3 center out of College.. this pick was not a reach, it was logical pick that did not work out.. Ross to me was a reach pick with ?? so bad pick..

If looking purely at projections vs where they were picked, you may say Price was a bigger reach than Ross.

Price was considered by quite a handful of draft experts to be an early 2nd round pick. I remember him being projected in the 40's.
He was projected 47th by CBS Sports, for example - https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2018-nfl-draft-prospect-rankings-top-150-overall-plus-breaking-down-first-round-locks/

He went 21st overall, which would make him going about 20-25 picks earlier than he was projected by draft pundits.

Ross was considered to be a back-half of 1st round draft ranking by many. I recall anywhere from upper teens into the low-to-mid 20's.
ESPN had him at 25 - https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2017/story/_/id/19180310/ranking-top-100-prospects-available-2017-nfl-draft-espn-nfl-nation-reporter-jeff-legwold

So Ross was about 10-15 picks earlier than projected by draft pundits.

With one being drafted about 20 picks ahead of where they were projected and the other only about 10, I would say Price was the bigger reach.
But, as you said, C was a big need whereas WR wasn't. And we all likely do remember that the Bengals really would have picked Ragnow as their C if DET didn't snag him the pick before. So if it would have been Ross vs Ragnow, absolutely Ross would have been the reach.