Given the general understanding that any quarterback drafted after the first round is considered a crapshoot in terms of whether or not he has the potential to develop into a ‘franchise’ player, I think it would be fair to say that the Cincinnati Bengals have gotten a pretty good burn out of Andy Dalton, a second-round pick in 2011.
But it’s easy to wonder if he hasn’t run through his course with the team. While he helped lead the team to five consecutive postseasons in his first five years—for a team that rarely made the postseason prior to that—they have posted four straight losing records as well, and they finished with the worst record in the NFL last year.