Out of our entire panel of voters, John Shearan took the most future-based view.

Let's talk about his most important Bengals for the future.

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He's your host, James Rapine.

Today we're joined by John Sharon, who covers the Bengals for A to Z Sports, one of our

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And John, as I mentioned, you had the most future-based view in our panel.

And as a result, the differences between your list and James's list and your list and the consensus list in some places are a little bit bigger than some of our other voters.

James has some big differences as well due to the opposite approach that he took from you. But where we're kind of starting these discussions with our panel when we were talking to

them as guests is, can you just talk about your methodology and how you took this exercise,

what went into your ranking system?

So I think in general, I look at like an infield time span for like a lifespan for a player.

It would be like four years just because that's like the standard rookie contract length.

I know underrated guys are three years.

But for this one, I kind of liked the five year outlook.

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