Biggest Bengal draft day memory

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(04-26-2018, 02:10 PM)fredtoast Wrote: What was your most memorable draft day for the Bengals.

Drafting Big Daddy in '94 was huge, but it was not as surprising as when we traded up to take Ki-Jana Carter.

Wilkenson is by far the most hyped player we have ever drafted. He was a very good player for us (we got a 1st and a 3rd round pick when we traded him to the Redskins), but he never lived up to the hype and pissed off a lot of Bengal fans with his comments about the city.

Ki-Jana was one of the best college RBs I have ever seen. He averaged 7.8 yards per carry his senior year at Penn State and scored 23 tds. For his career he rushed for 2829 yards and a 7.2 avg. I was pumped to hear that we traded up to get him. The Bengals won 7,8,and 7 games from '95 through '97. We had a top ten scoring offense in both '96 and '97 with Blake and Pickens. If Carter had stayed healthy we could have contended for the playoffs.

Also remember when we drafted Archie Griffin in the first round. I was a huge OSU fan back then and was certain he would be a big star in the NFL.

The 2011 draft was awesome all-around, the 2013 one was spent in Jacksonville, watching Limp Bizkit, so the memories of that time were great, but the 2009 draft was the first I watched and I was SO hyped for almost everyone (save for Freddie Brown, as I knew absolutely nothing about him) and truly, we hit on every pick in that draft, aside from Brown and Vakapuna (who probably would've been a decent FB for us, if not for Jeremi and Pressley) with some players not working out due to whatever:

- Coffman due to not seeing the field (even though he did great when he did)
- Luigs due to career-ending injury
- Clinton was buried behind depth and we gave him away for a needed (but awful) CB in Kelly Jennings, in 2011.

- MJ
- 'dre
- Rey
- Huber
- Morgan Trent
- BScott

That's a great haul in any draft.