Touchdown Wire’s pre-combine mock draft: Chase Young, Jerry Jeudy are pivot points

Everybody does mock drafts, most everybody does more than one, and every mock draft is done for different reasons. To get clicks? Well, duh. That would be reason No. 1, dear reader. Let’s not be arch about this. That aside, what we’re trying to do …

1. Cincinnati Bengals (2-14): Joe Burrow, QB, LSU

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One of the most hilarious things about the news lull between the Super Bowl and the scouting combine is the need to make a whole lot out of very little. Thus, we have Joe Burrow refusing to pledge absolute fealty to the Bengals, and What It All Means. (Here’s a good explainer of what it actually means). None of it really matters. The Bengals need to get themselves out of the quarterback purgatory they’ve been in with Andy Dalton since 2011, and Burrow brings a combination of arm talent, ability to throw on the move, and poise under pressure that reminds me of pre-injury Sam Bradford. It’s stuff you can improve upon, but you can’t really teach. Throw away the one-year wonder stuff, and bail on the concerns about his arm strength. Burrow is the best player in this draft class, and as such, should be the overwhelming first pick. Which he will be.

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