Desmond Ridder showed some flashes in the Cotton Bowl, but also proved he still has plenty of room to improve. crissy_froyd breaks down Ridder's performance and what effect it had on his 2022 NFL Draft stock. FrontOffice33 | NFLDraft
Cincinnati Bearcats quarterback Desmond Ridder and his Bearcats team came into the Cotton Bowl as heavy underdogs. Unfortunately, they proved that a big point spread really could have been even larger. Instead of making a statement, they fell 27-6 to the Alabama Crimson Tide.
This isn’t to say that Ridder is a bad quarterback or that Cincinnati didn’t belong in the College Football Playoff—the explanation is quite the opposite, really. Ridder has all the right tools to be a successful quarterback or at least a high-end backup in the NFL, but he needs some additional development. Despite hanging around in the conversation for QB1 for a long time, he simply isn’t at the level of quarterbacks like Carson Strong, Kenny Pickett, and Matt Corral.
Looking specifically at Ridder, some things he did in his own right where others came up short in this game could have made Alabama’s margin of victory less than three scores, which says a lot for Cincinnati’s case to belong here. Perhaps the most notable of those was when Ridder placed a ball perfectly into the end zone toward the top of the fourth quarter, but his receiver couldn’t control it all the way to the ground.
This was another one of the Cincinnati offense’s highlights of the night as Ridder delivered a 28-yarder to wide receiver Michael Young to bring the Bearcats well into Alabama territory:
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