Bengals Insiders Don’t Have Us Taking Pitts

[Benton]

(02-07-2021, 05:48 PM)Gdale_Bengal Wrote: I can understand a lot of reasons why you might not want to draft TE at 5, but this particular reason is just bad. Gotta catch up to the modern NFL offenses and not try to cling to the 80s and 70s crap. Pitts is worth the 5th pick. This is garbage reasoning.

Nay, just the wrong team. Barring some trades, I don't see how he fits any of the teams in the top 5.

I don't remember if it was Zac's first year or this year, but one of those (hell, maybe both), we were dead last in having TEs on the field. And when they are on the field they're in more blocking schemes because the line isn't great.

If we took Pitts (or any other primarily pass catching TE), we'd either A- Have to redo the playbook based around him (that's unlikely and means a significant change for existing players); or B- We're moving him to WR (which is possible, but I don't think he's what we need at WR); or C- We'd have a guy with solid talent that we're completely misusing.