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While randomly scanning through the Bengals all time draft picks, i get to 1968 and after being shocked at the total number of picks...17 rounds i see a couple things.
1. Something i didn't realize or had forgotten. Bob Trumpy was a 12th rd draft pick. That's not the obscure part. This is...
2. In the 13th rd (2nd pick), the Bengals took a guy named Teddy Washington. RB out of San Diego St.
For his entire NFL career, which spanned all of, and only, the 1968 season, his stat line was 1 carry for 4 yards. That's his entire NFL statline. Anyone remember this guy. Know what his story was? Anything?
Now tell me who you got.
EDIT: Found an interesting bit of information about ole Teddy. He changed his name to Sultan Salaam and quite interestingly, fathered a son who would become a 1st rd pick by the Chicago Bears named Rashaan Salaam.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/06/18/sons-follow-in-fathers-footsteps/
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Obscure Bengals is one of the best Bengals Twitter-ers and I love my back and forth with him, so thanks to that and NFL 2Ks/Maddens growing up, I'm familiar with a lot of these guys
Here are a few:
- Marcello Simmons (went to the Argonauts for a few years and won a Grey Cup), DB who played with us, just for... '94 season, IIRC. He's now a cop in Peel region (region attached to Toronto, west of the city)
- In the same vein, Milt Stegall, had two years with us, mainly as a returner and then became arguably the best WR in CFL history.
- Roosevelt Nix, big DL that didn't do much with us in the early 90s.
- Going off of Faulk above, another one gamer (and more-recent), Robert Sands, the guy who looked like the Predator.
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(08-13-2024, 01:53 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Obscure Bengals is one of the best Bengals Twitter-ers and I love my back and forth with him, so thanks to that and NFL 2Ks/Maddens growing up, I'm familiar with a lot of these guys
Here are a few:
- Marcello Simmons (went to the Argonauts for a few years and won a Grey Cup), DB who played with us, just for... '94 season, IIRC. He's now a cop in Peel region (region attached to Toronto, west of the city)
- In the same vein, Milt Stegall, had two years with us, mainly as a returner and then became arguably the best WR in CFL history.
- Roosevelt Nix, big DL that didn't do much with us in the early 90s.
- Going off of Faulk above, another one gamer (and more-recent), Robert Sands, the guy who looked like the Predator.
One of my faves...Tom Tumulty!
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Obscure Bengal that some (inc. me) thought might actually be able to stick on a roster and contribute at least on ST - Mario Alford, WR/RS West Virginia.
Alford was drafted in the last round in 2015 by the Bengals.
Guy ended up only playing 1 season for the Bengals, 1 for the Browns.
His total stat line in the NFL - 1 rec for 15 yards, 8 PRs for 68 yards, 8 KRs for 190 yards. Played a total of 5 offensive snaps and 33 ST snaps in his 2-year career.
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Maybe not an answer for most obscure, but I was looking through some of the Bengals drafts and dang... is Cobi Hamilton the most prolific Practice Squad player of all time? He was on the practice squad of 6 different teams over a span of 6 years. The only game he was on a roster for in his first 3 years was the Bengals 2014 playoff game (no stats).
CERTAINLY not obscure at least on this board, but Armon Binns apparently got into coaching. He's worked his way up to being the WR Coach for Northwestern.
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Marcus Maxwell, WR in 2007. I remember him vividly because he was an Oregon Duck that landed in Cincinnati. Here's a couple of other names that have probably been forgotten...
- Skyler Green- Sprinter from LSU.
- DeDe Dorsey - RB who flashed a couple big plays in pre-season.
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Are you gonna make me say Bennie Brazell?
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Anybody remember Kenny Irons? Just sad.
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John Mackey Award (2008)
Consensus All-American (2008)
2× First-team All-Big 12 (2006, 2008)
Second-team All-Big 12 (2007)
247 collegiate catches for 2659 yards and 30 tds. As a senior 90, 987 and 10.
3rd round pick by the bengals. Played 6 games, as a bengal, catching 3 balls for 30 yards.
Hung around the NFL for 6 years totaling 5 teams. Career stats 18 catches for 177 yards and 2 tds.
I give you Chase Coffman.
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Guy had a career going pointing towards Canton. Then he abruptly retired after just 5 seasons and you rarely hear his name mentioned.
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(08-13-2024, 09:31 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Obscure Bengal that some (inc. me) thought might actually be able to stick on a roster and contribute at least on ST - Mario Alford, WR/RS West Virginia.
Alford was drafted in the last round in 2015 by the Bengals.
Guy ended up only playing 1 season for the Bengals, 1 for the Browns.
His total stat line in the NFL - 1 rec for 15 yards, 8 PRs for 68 yards, 8 KRs for 190 yards. Played a total of 5 offensive snaps and 33 ST snaps in his 2-year career.
(08-13-2024, 10:21 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: Marcus Maxwell, WR in 2007. I remember him vividly because he was an Oregon Duck that landed in Cincinnati. Here's a couple of other names that have probably been forgotten...
- Skyler Green- Sprinter from LSU.
- DeDe Dorsey - RB who flashed a couple big plays in pre-season.
(08-13-2024, 10:59 AM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: Are you gonna make me say Bennie Brazell?
(08-13-2024, 11:20 AM)Whatever Wrote: Anybody remember Kenny Irons? Just sad.
These are some of the obscure players I was around for. Mario Alford was a small WR with great speed. Really wanted DeDe Dorsey to
make the team back in the day, quick RB that made some big plays for us in preseason as KillerGoose here says. Bennie Brazell was a track
guy I believe and it was indeed sad what happened to Kenny Irons on the Detriot field in the preseason.
Just a recent name, that didn't make our team and I wanted to keep, Raymond Johnson III was our best pass rusher in preseason before
getting plucked off our PS as of late.
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Dennis Roland, he wasn't much of an Offensive Tackle, but he was a star blocking TE for the 2009 season that saw the Bengals run 6-0 in the division riding the wave of Cedric Benson running behind an unbalanced line.
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(08-13-2024, 10:21 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: Marcus Maxwell, WR in 2007. I remember him vividly because he was an Oregon Duck that landed in Cincinnati. Here's a couple of other names that have probably been forgotten...
- Skyler Green- Sprinter from LSU.
- DeDe Dorsey - RB who flashed a couple big plays in pre-season.
Wasn't DeDe Dorsey who blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown in a regular season game against the Cardinals?
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(08-13-2024, 08:31 AM)Memphis_Bengal Wrote: One of my faves...Tom Tumulty!
Swear to God I was going to write him in my post, but he's not as obscure as the guys I mentioned! Great pick.
(08-13-2024, 12:17 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Mike Reid
Guy had a career going pointing towards Canton. Then he abruptly retired after just 5 seasons and you rarely hear his name mentioned.
lol you know he isn't obscure, 74 I'd say not remembered, but definitely not obscure (like Tommy Casanova)
(08-13-2024, 02:52 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Dennis Roland, he wasn't much of an Offensive Tackle, but he was a star blocking TE for the 2009 season that saw the Bengals run 6-0 in the division riding the wave of Cedric Benson running behind an unbalanced line.
Same as the above: wouldn't call him obscure, but definitely someone that faded away.
he had a really god '09 at run blocking, was below average in pass pro though.
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(08-13-2024, 03:10 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Swear to God I was going to write him in my post, but he's not as obscure as the guys I mentioned! Great pick.
lol you know he isn't obscure, 74 I'd say not remembered, but definitely not obscure (like Tommy Casanova)
Same as the above: wouldn't call him obscure, but definitely someone that faded away.
he had a really god '09 at run blocking, was below average in pass pro though.
Yep probably not the best example of obscure, but rather forgotten quickly and rarely mentioned. Even back in the 80's/90's
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(08-13-2024, 02:52 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Dennis Roland, he wasn't much of an Offensive Tackle, but he was a star blocking TE for the 2009 season that saw the Bengals run 6-0 in the division riding the wave of Cedric Benson running behind an unbalanced line.
I was more of a Scott Kooistra guy, myself.
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I mentioned him but I didn't plug him: if you spend time on Twitter/X, do give him a follow, his content is fantastic and he seems like a super awesome guy:
https://twitter.com/obscure_bengals
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