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Heating up the roster

Geoff Hobson, bengals.com

Even before the Bengals started picking in the second round on Friday night, retiring Bengals director of football operations Jim Lippincott looked at the board and said to no one in particular, "...

Bill, whodeyfans.com

If you thought that the Bengals absolutely had to take a highly touted running back in the draft, you might not share my opinion about how well the war room did this year. But I love drafting linemen. So getting three good ones in the first three rounds…

Heating up the roster

Apr 29, 2012

Geoff Hobson, bengals.com

Even before the Bengals started picking in the second round on Friday night, retiring Bengals director of football operations Jim Lippincott looked at the board and said to no one in particular, "...

cincinnati.com

On the day after the NFL Draft, two things have become clearly evident — the Bengals had one of the two best drafts in the league. The other? Their two biggest AFC North rivals weren't that far behind.

Matt Loede, bengalsgab.com

Ben Bojicic, OL, Bowling Green Derrius Brooks, CB, Western Kentucky Vontaze Burfict, LB, Arizona State Tony Dye, S, UCLA Tyler Hanson, QB, Colorado Justin Hilton, WR, Indiana State Brandon Joiner, DE, Arkansas State Emmanuel Lamur, DB, Kansas State Juli…

Doug Farrar, yahoo.com

The NFL may beg to differ, but former Arizona State and current Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict is convinced that he's one of the elite players in the 2012 draft class. The league showed a different opinion by leaving him out of the 253-pi…

Number 1 Fan, whodeyfans.com

The Bengals have a need at corner, they may have solved it by adding another first rounder to their stable in the defense.  Dre Kirkpatrick looks to be an incredible athlete that can cover in man or zone and is  not afraid to hit.  What more do you wan…

ESPN.com

It was a successful draft for the Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers. How do I know? Well, I looked at Mel Kiper Jr.'s draft grades . The AFC North was the only division where each team received a grade of at …

Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com

Vontaze Burfict said after signing as an undrafted free agent with the Bengals that his new team just got one of the steals of the draft, because he has the talent of a first or second-round pick, and Cincinnati didn’t even have to spend a pick on him a…

Geoff Hobson, bengals.com

The 2012 NFL Draft got covered like a presidential election and if it had been the Bengals would have been one of the winners in a landslide with the orange and black states stretching from Dre Ki...

Geoff Hobson, bengals.com

The 2012 NFL Draft got covered like a presidential election and if it had been the Bengals would have been one of the winners in a landslide with the orange and black states stretching from Dre Ki...

Geoff Hobson, bengals.com

At 6-1 and a half and 211 pounds, Bengals rookie receiver Mohamed Sanu is a little bigger than T.J. Houshmandzadeh. The Bengals think he's a little faster and they think he's got the same kind of ...

Geoff Hobson, bengals.com

At 6-1 and a half and 211 pounds, Bengals rookie receiver Mohamed Sanu is a little bigger than T.J. Houshmandzadeh. They think he's a little faster and they think he's got the same kind of innate i...

cincinnati.com

Tight end Orson Charles of Georgia, cornerback Shaun Prater of Iowa, receiver Marvin Jones of Cal, safety George Iloka of Boise State and running back Dan Herron of Ohio State were drafted Saturday by the Bengals.