Top 50 Cincinatti Bengals

Top 50 Cincinnati Bengals

If you want to name a team that exemplifies hard luck in the National Football League, it would have to be the Cincinnati Bengals.

Formed in 1968 as the last member of the American Football League, the Bengals joined the NFL with the official merger two years later. Cincinnati always seems to be a team that struggles, but they have appeared in three Super Bowls, losing the first two to the San Francisco 49ers and in 2020 to the Los Angeles Rams. While they have never been a champion, three Super Bowl appearances are the envy of a few teams in the NFL.

This list is up to the end of the 2024 regular season.

Note: Football lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff statistics, and post-season accolades.

39. Dave Lapham

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Dave Lapham played all ten of his NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, which drafted him in the Third Round in 1974.

40. Rudi Johnson

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After an outstanding career at Auburn, Rudi Johnson was the 100thPick of the 2001 Draft, a selection that proved fruitful by the Cincinnati Bengals.

41. Joe Walter

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After being drafted in the Seventh Round in 1985, Texas Tech Offensive Lineman, Joe Walter, would prove to be an excellent value for the Cincinnati Bengals.

42. Louis Breeden

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Louis Breeden played his entire NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals, but it was almost over before it began.

43. Mike Wilson

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After the Cincinnati Bengals used their Fourth Round Pick in 1977 on Georgia’s Mike Wilson, the Offensive Lineman elected instead to sign with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He only played one year there, where he was an AFL All-Star before joining the Bengals in 1978.

44. Leon Hall

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Leon Hall was Cincinnati’s First Round Pick in 2007, and the All-American from the University of Michigan would be their starting Right Cornerback from his rookie season until 2014.

45. Tee Higgins

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A consistent performer since he was drafted in the Second Round from Clemson, Tee Higgins has played five seasons thus far for the Bengals and has exceeded 900 Yards in four of them. In two of those campaigns, Higgins broke 1,000 Yards (1,091 in 2021 and 1,029 in 2022), and while he only had 911 Yards last season, he had…

46. Tyler Boyd

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Tyler Boyd played his first eight seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, arriving in 2016 as a Second Round Pick from the University of Pittsburgh. Boyd did not have many touches in his first two years (76 combined receptions) but settled in as a productive WR 2 over his last six years in the jungle. He had over 1,000 Yards in…

47. Germaine Pratt

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As of this writing, Germaine Pratt has played the entirety of his five-year career with the Cincinnati Bengals, the team that drafted him from NC State in 2019’s Third Round. Pratt won the starting Linebacker job midway through his rookie year and emerged as one of their better run defenders. Year by year, Pratt has been increasing his tackling metrics,…

48. Justin Smith

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Before Justin Smith was a star with San Francisco, he was the Fourth Overall Pick by the Cincinnati Bengals from Missouri.

49. T.J. Houshmandzadeh

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Wasn’t the last name of T.J. Houshmandzadeh a thing of beauty on the back of an NFL jersey?

50. Rufus Mayes

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Rufus Mayes was a First Round Pick by the Chicago Bears in 1969, but his stay in Chicago lasted only one year as he was traded to the Cincinnati Bengals for two players; Bill Staley and Harry Gunner. Neither Staley nor Gunner did much for Chicago, while Mayes had nine productive seasons as a Bengal.

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