Bengals Scouting Parties Blaze Trail To NFL Draft: An Insider's Timeline
"We would have put an initial talent and round grade on him at that point and it was based off where we took him," says director of college scouting Mike Potts a year later. "He was already in the mix."
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Joe Burrow, in 2019, and Carson Palmer, in 2002, were named the collegiate winners when they also won the Heisman Trophy and were then drafted No. 1 overall by the Bengals.