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Draft De-Briefing As Bengals Re-Set Roster

“The first round, maybe unexpectedly, had multiple guys where we felt had value there,” Potts says. “Dax was clearly the best player at No. 31, but there were others there we also felt were worthy of the pick. Later, maybe there were just one or two. We thought Anderson could have gone a round earlier. Gunter was the best player (left) when we thought he fell to us.”

We visit with some of Potts’ area scouts to see how it came together, keeping in mind that Tobin and head coach Zac Taylor stress by time a player is acquired, they’ve been vetted by several scouts and coaches. It’s not one person’s pick, they say, but the Bengals’ pick.

ALL THE WAY BACK: Trey Brown, who scours the south in the East and the Atlantic, just got through his first draft with the Bengals but it’s far from his first rodeo. He was one of four guys in the Bengals draft room that had run his own draft but the only one to do it in two different leagues. Tobin, his dad Bill, now a Bengals scout, and Bengals…

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