Here’s a guy who’s been put through the mill. Dez Bryant is almost undoubtedly the most talented receiver in the draft, but he is continuing to slide due to a combination of fluffed work-outs and vicious rumours. He’s not a bad character kind of guy. He won’t leave teams with the same headache as the late Chris Henry (Bengals), the incarcerated Plaxico Burress (Giants) or even the wise-talking, if law-abiding, Terrell Owens (where he lands this year is anyone’s guess).
Bryant was initially projected to go in the top ten, but now he is creeping towards the back-end of the first round. Some analysts have him landing in Arizona: this would be Christmas come early for the rebuilding NFC West champs in light of tough playmaking receiver Anquan Boldin’s departure for the streets of Maryland.
I’m a Cardinal – I’d love to see a high-grade player with immense physicality like Bryant wind up in the desert. But really? Surely a receiver-light team will pick him up sooner than that? The Bengals could do with a viable opposite for Chad Ochocinco, but perhaps they do have more pressing needs elsewhere. And adding to that, I still think that Cincinnatti should give TO a one year deal even if it amounts to nothing more than a stop-gap experiment.
Bryant should go in the teens to early twenties. If AZ snap him up, the West might once again be theirs.
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