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The Cincinnati Bengals have had their draft ups and downs over the course of the last two decades, but a recent analysis of those selections shows that the extremes end up in the wash. While the Bengals have had some great draft successes, they grade out as roughly average across the league, if not slightly below average.
Jay Pauley, writing on Medium.com, designed a new metric by which he analyzed every NFL team’s drafting value. The bottom line of his method is that he uses PFR’s weighted AV calculation for a player’s career to assign them a certain value for their on-field contributions to a team.