13 years of Marvin Drafting LBs

[Bengal Dude]

(10-29-2015, 12:05 PM)wolfkaosaun Wrote: Thurman and Pollak showed great signs as to giving us one of the best linebacking corps in the NFL. Sadly, injury and stupidity ruined that.

Rivers was a first round talent and many thought Maualuga was as well. Rivers has been given injury excuses, but he's just been overall solid. Not terrible. But not great. Maualuga has had some terrible seasons, but also decent ones. Been a solid starter who needs improved upon.

Landon Johnson did extremely well.

Those are your 5 guys worth noting that Marvin has drafted that turned out to do well for the Bengals, even if it was for a short time.

However, the Bengals are going to need a linebacker in next year's draft. And hopefully they'll start Paul Dawson before the season is over.

What I'll say about Rivers is that he was lucky to be in the 2008 draft. It was pretty much a week class. Rivers had the highest ceiling of the other LBs, but a lot of analysts said that Rivers was more of a "what you see is what you get" kind of player. He looked good until his jaw injury, but he just never improved on that.

As for Landon, I liked the guy, but again, nothing special. He just played around some lesser talent that helped him look good. Plus, the guy was small and had a tendency to get dragged. He would make contact and the player would still go 3-4 yards before going down.