With the 21st pick in the Mock Fanball.com Draft the Bengals Select
February 24th, 2010 | by mikenorrod |
http://www.rotojunkie.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102759
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Jermaine Gresham from the University of Oklahoma
The 6′ 6″ 262 lb Tight End fix to the Bengals long standing problems at TE. Reggie Kelly will be back most likely for this year, but he will most likely retire or move on after this season, after drafting Chase Coffman last year and everyone thinking (maybe realizing) that he is a bust, the Bengals will pick up the hopefully all the way healed up Jermaine Gresham.
Gresham even if a little slow out of the gate will have some time, but not much to catch on to the Bengals playbook, and picking up blocking is a must (just ask Chase Coffman). Speaking of Coffman, after the LONG season he and the fans endured, it is definitely put up or get cut time for him, I can’t envision Mike Brown paying him to sit and rot, and we can only keep so many tight ends. Kelly, Foschi, Coffman, and Gresham will be one to many already so I would look for Foschi to either start the year on the practice squad to make room, or cut all together. I also supsect Daniel Coats will be cut outright (but possibly sent to the practice squad, dependent on what they do with Jeremi Johnson at fullback).
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Gresham had great production every year until 2009 a knee injury knocked him out of the entire year (so hey he’s rested right?). He has a very rare combination of Size 6′ 6″ 262 lbs, and is very fast, very strong, and very athletic, lets just say it now, he is a freak of nature (kind of like Michael Johnson at DE). Anytime you have a guy like that at a skill position that you have a need for it, it is a risk worth taking even with the injury. This guy has a gift for getting to the endzone and racking up lots of YAC (yards after catch), he is a vertical threat on every down, only a handful of tight ends in NFL history that you can say that about, let alone in Bengals history. So yeah again he had an injury, BUT the risk reward is so heavy on the reward side, and we have a need in the same spot.
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We all know the Bengals want to go defense here, but WR and TE is such a need that if this guy or WR Dez Bryant is available it’s a no brainer. I have to admit though if USC Safety, Taylor Mays is available at this spot in the draft which I don’t expect him to be, the Bengals will take him ahead of either offensive player. The Bengals are making a commitment to defense, but he is the only outstanding defensive guy (though Dan Williams could be interesting if available) that MAYBE be left at this spot in the first round.
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I look for the Bengals to pick up a WR via Free Agency and go TE in the draft, and yes I think the Bengals are VERY serious about T. Owens, and before you blast him, he has been great almost anywhere he has been the first year he has been there, last year was no exception, he didn’t put up the usual number, but guys, he was in BUFFALO. Look for a one year deal, and a HIGHLY motivated Owens to show up and be lose and have fun next to Chad Ochocinco and have horrible contests to see who can get fined the most or do the worst/best end zone celebration.
So there ya have it, my predictions, let me know what you think…
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By RamsHerd on Feb 25, 2010
I missed the Chase Coffman saga … I guess he had a “blink and you miss it” kind of season. The Rams are another team that could really use a top-tier TE, and my latest post looks at Aaron Hernandez as an option, with Gresham very likely off the board when pick #33 comes around.
But Hernandez is an all-catch, no-block option at TE as well. What was the story with Coffman? And could that reflect on Hernandez?