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LSU Football: NFL GM thinks picking Joe Burrow first was a mistake by Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals made the obviously correct decision with the first pick of the 2020 NFL Draft and selected LSU football’s Joe Burrow.

Drafting Burrow was a no brainer for the Bengals, a franchise in desperate need of a quarterback.

Surprisingly, not everyone in the NFL agrees. There’s at least one NFL general manager who believes Cincinnati made a mistake.

An unnamed general manager told The Athletic’s Mike Sando “If I were their GM, I’d play free agency for the quarterback, take Chase Young, a once-in-a-generation talent, and get a Joe Burrow at a different time.