Walter Nolen vs Kenneth Grant - PFF grade comparison

[*ochocincos*]

(Yesterday, 05:00 PM)Whatever Wrote: Trading down will be tough simply because of the lack of "true" first round talent.  There are really only a dozen guys in this class with real 1st round grades, then a bunch of second round types that will move into the 1st just because of lack of quality talent ahead of them.  Teams aren't likely to want to trade up if they can get a similarly graded player at their pick.

Then if they can't trade down appropriately, identify a player at another position which also may be somewhat of a need, even if it's for an impending FA next year.
Bengals have CTB, Dax Hill, Geno Stone, Germaine Pratt, Trey Hendrickson, Sam Hubbard, Ted Karras, Alex Cappa, and Cordell Volson all entering contract years.
Plenty of other positions to address if there isn't a good talent in Rd 1 to address for DT.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(Yesterday, 05:00 PM)Whatever Wrote: Trading down will be tough simply because of the lack of "true" first round talent.  There are really only a dozen guys in this class with real 1st round grades, then a bunch of second round types that will move into the 1st just because of lack of quality talent ahead of them.  Teams aren't likely to want to trade up if they can get a similarly graded player at their pick.

Good point. If no team wants to trade up then we will just have to go BPA, we have quite a few holes. Hopefully a lot less after FA, but there 
should be other positions other than DT we could add a talent for the future.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(Yesterday, 05:30 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Then if they can't trade down appropriately, identify a player at another position which also may be somewhat of a need, even if it's for an impending FA next year.
Bengals have CTB, Dax Hill, Geno Stone, Germaine Pratt, Trey Hendrickson, Sam Hubbard, Ted Karras, Alex Cappa, and Cordell Volson all entering contract years.
Plenty of other positions to address if there isn't a good talent in Rd 1 to address for DT.

Nice post, beat me to it Ocho lol

[t3r3e3]

(02-18-2025, 04:25 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: You are assuming we pass signing a FA DT like Williams or others. I think we sign one FA and then draft one DT.

Williams played with studs and wants to get paid. I wouldn’t pay him; build DT through the draft…