Free Agency List

[Bobcat Bengal]

Shazor is still there, as is Brimmer

Chris McKenzie is hanging around.

Munoz didn't get drafted either.

Ben Wilkerson is there as well.

Let's not throw hissy fits just yet, yall.

I think we can still get some good players off this list.

Here's the link, check it out.

Sporting News Free Agency List

[skyline]

This list has to make you feel a little better about things. It's not as if we passed on these guys, and then the next team took them and got a steal.

Every team passed on these guys in every round...

[BengalszoneBilly]

That list is full of names of players that were projected to be drafted!

[membengal]

That list is full of names of players that were projected to be drafted!

Exactly. Which ought to operate as a cautionary tale to many who were running around screaming about the sky falling in the 6th and 7th rounds. If these guys were what their bengalszone press agents made them out to be, they would be on a team right now, rather than still searching for an opportunity...

[schweinhart]

  That list is full of names of players that were projected to be drafted!

Exactly. Which ought to operate as a cautionary tale to many who were running around screaming about the sky falling in the 6th and 7th rounds. If these guys were what their bengalszone press agents made them out to be, they would be on a team right now, rather than still searching for an opportunity...

There is a lot of talent that wasn't drafted but the chance of an undrafted rookie free agent making a roster is minimal. IIRC Larry Stevens is the only one who made his way on the Bengal roster for most of the season last year.

Hard disputing a player deserves to get drafted much less be a Day 1 pick when no team wants him. Seemed like James Butler, Ernie Shazor, TA McLendon, Kay Jay Harris, Marcus Lawrence and Chris McKenzie woulda got picked. Some dropped for medical reasons, maybe legal reasons too, or maybe the obvious is the obvious and they just don't look like they can cut it at the next level in the eyes of scouts and coaches.

[chrishcovga]

Hard disputing a player deserves to get drafted much less be a Day 1 pick when no team wants him. Seemed like James Butler, Ernie Shazor, TA McLendon, Kay Jay Harris, Marcus Lawrence and Chris McKenzie woulda got picked. Some dropped for medical reasons, maybe legal reasons too, or maybe the obvious is the obvious and they just don't look like they can cut it at the next level in the eyes of scouts and coaches.

Hey I'm with you on this one schweiney: , but at the same time, Game film doesn't lie.

These are guys that can play. I think this is more " They didn't shake the right hand" or get the right agent, that comes into play than any thing.

You and I both know these guys have been scouted since their Highschool days. They've been poked and prodded like a heard of cows for the last 6- 7 years, maybe even longer, but when the pads came on these guys produced, so I have a hard time thinking that all of these guys that were " College All Americans " i.e. Wilkerson, Shazor, Brimmer, Lawrence, Browner, etc. all fell because of poor forty times.

Forty times don't make a football player, How he performs when he puts those pads on makes a football player. :player:

[cover2]

Undrafted FA by position

http://www.gbnreport.com/UFApositionalrankings.html

[schweinhart]

Hard disputing a player deserves to get drafted much less be a Day 1 pick when no team wants him. Seemed like James Butler, Ernie Shazor, TA McLendon, Kay Jay Harris, Marcus Lawrence and Chris McKenzie woulda got picked. Some dropped for medical reasons, maybe legal reasons too, or maybe the obvious is the obvious and they just don't look like they can cut it at the next level in the eyes of scouts and coaches.

Hey I'm with you on this one schweiney: , but at the same time, Game film doesn't lie.

These are guys that can play. I think this is more " They didn't shake the right hand" or get the right agent, that comes into play than any thing.

You and I both know these guys have been scouted since their Highschool days. They've been poked and prodded like a heard of cows for the last 6- 7 years, maybe even longer, but when the pads came on these guys produced, so I have a hard time thinking that all of these guys that were " College All Americans " i.e. Wilkerson, Shazor, Brimmer, Lawrence, Browner, etc. all fell because of poor forty times.

Forty times don't make a football player, How he performs when he puts those pads on makes a football player. :player:

I hear you and I'm kinda partial too to what I see with my own two eyes.

And from what I've seen there's some excellent talent that went undrafted, seems like more than last year although there was some good ones last year who are still pushing through.

Cover 2 got the GBN position lists of the available rookie free agents and I would seriously like to see the Bengals sign 2 of them: TE Chris Holmes from Toledo who brings all-downs potential because he can do all the facets of the position adequately and S James Butler who I thought would go in the 3rd rd because he looked like the next Eugene Robinson when I saw him play.

Of course, the number of rookie free agents who get signed will be more like 10 but realistically only 1 or 2 cracks the 53-man and maybe 4 wind up on the practice squad.