Did the Bengals grab great prospects who fell to them? Did the reach for players? The players draft positions are compared to their pre-draft rankings.
Before the NFL Draft, I scoured the most popular sites that rank the prospects before the draft, such as NFL.com, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, and others. From these pre-draft rankings, I compiled a composite ranking for each of the prospects based on their combined rankings from each of the various sites.
Based on this list, we can assess each Bengals draft pick and determine if they were a good value, no value, or a bad value based on where they were ranked compared to where they were picked.