Key stat shows just how bad Jackson Carman pick was for Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals officially cut ties with former second-round draft pick Jackson Carman when they cut the roster down to 53 last week.

The Bengals took him in the 2021 NFL draft with the 46th overall pick and despite being given the chance to start in six games in his rookie season, he never was able to work his way into consistent playing time.

Jay Morrison, the Bengals beat reporter for Pro Football Network, posted a graphic that listed every second-round pick from the same year Carman was drafted, along with how many games those players have started in the NFL, and it didn’t look good for Carman.

He was 26th of the 32 players taken in the round with the six games he started in three seasons, ahead of only Day Odeyingbo, who started five games, Kelvin Joseph, who started three games, and four players tied with zero starts. They are the only seven players to start fewer than 10 games.

Leading the list are Creed Humphrey with 51 games started, Tre’von Moehrig with 47 games started and Landon Dickerson, who has started 46 games.

Whatever Carman’s problems might have been on the field, Morrison showed how bad that draft pick ended up being for the Bengals in retrospect.