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Pre-Draft Scouting Report from a Raiders scout ... https://fullpresscoverage.com/2020/01/29/2020-raiders-draft-prospect-lb-marcel-spears-jr/

Another Team Captain (the new trend)

https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-rookie-lb-spears-just-did-his-two-jobs

Draft Diamond's Damond Talbot believes that Iowa State redshirt senior LB Marcel Spears could see Day 2 interest "or higher" with a strong fall season. "He plays with the intensity of a jackal in a meatpacking facility," Talbot writes, adding that the 6-foot-1, 218-pound Spears is "[a]lways going after the ball, grabbing, tearing, clawing his way for a turnover." That all certainly paints a picture. This past season, Spears racked up 69 tackles (8.0 for loss), 2.5 sacks, a pair of interceptions and three passes defended while working as a 13-game starter. While Spears loves to attack, he is not a bull in a china shop. Talbot praises his "lucid change of direction," while PFF graded him out as having the fifth-highest coverage grade of any returning linebacker in the Big 12. Big things could be a-coming down the pike if the redshirt senior shows out well this coming season. Iowa State redshirt senior LB Marcel Spears Jr. had the fifth highest coverage ranking of any returning linebacker according to Pro Football Focus in the Big 12. Spears Jr. (6'1/215) had a grade of 81.5 in coverage according to PFF, just behind Texas Tech linebacker Jordyn Brooks' mark of 81.7 He also had 69 tackles last year, and he's been an honorable mention All-Big 12 performer the last two years with 69 tackles and 2.5 sacks. The lack of size is a bit concerning, but Spears is clearly a talented player that should be among the best linebackers in the Big 12 next year because of his ability to help in coverage and stop the run. https://www.rotoworld.com/college-football/nfl-draft/player/38717/marcel-spears-jr

* High school teammate of Isaiah Simmons, the 8th overall pick *

Joe morphing into a Bengal ...

A savior who also feeds the hungry ... (NBC News report on Burrow)

A quick look back on when Burrow signed with LSU ...

Carson Quitter talks about his first Bengals game in Baltimore ... And then Kurt Warner and David Carr discuss Joe Burrow

Paul: "Regardless of what Nike does, they better not touch my helmets. I put those stripes on for a reason."

One option would just be going back to these ...