Not to discredit our drafting team

[Bengal Dude]

(05-11-2016, 09:24 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I remember when Tyrone Wheatley came out before the draft and said he wouldn't play for the Bengals if drafted by them. That could've been a reason why we traded up for Ki-Jana in '95. 

Man, imagine those Blake/Pickens teams with Marshall Faulk. They probably would've made the playoffs a couple times and avoided drafting guys like Ki-Jana, Akili Smith, etc. Heck, our last 20 years would look completely different.

The biggest "what if" will always be the Akili Smith/Saints trade. I know Washington didn't do much with the bounty they got from New Orleans, but I always wonder what we would've done with those picks.