Bengals First 50: Specialists

As a part of the celebration of the Bengal's 50th year of existence, the organization is having fans vote on a "First 50" team of the 50 greatest past Bengals players. The voting period has officially ended, but I thought it might be fun to discuss who you'd pick by position.

Given the percent of specialists from the total pool of players to choose from, you should be able to pick 5 of them from this list and still keep a fairly even distribution from among other positions.

You can check out the players in the link and look at some basic info on their individual careers with the team. Bengals First 50

SPECIALISTS:

1) Bahr, Chris

2) Breech, Jim

3) Graham, Shayne

4) Jennings, Stanford

5) Johnson, Lee

6) Larson, Kyle

7) Lewis, Dave

8) Mack, Tremain

9) Martin, Mike

10) McInally, Pat

11) Muhlmann, Horst

12) Pelfrey, Doug

@horst muhlmann ...who's your top pick?

Breech, Jim

Johnson, Lee

McInally, Pat

Muhlmann, Horst

I will only take 4 and save the extra pick for another position.

If Leapin' Lemar Parrish isn't on the list the list is invalid.

If Leapin' Lemar Parrish isn't on the list the list is invalid.

I think that is because Lemar will be on the DBs ballot. Stanford Jennings and Mike Martin will not be at their positions.

Jennings amd Mack where great returners.

No Neil Rackers on the list lol?

Jennings amd Mack where great returners.

Very good but not as good as Parrish.

I think Parrish has the record for punts returned for a TD and was a great kick returner as well. This was a miss by the Bengals.

Very good but not as good as Parrish.

 

I think Parrish has the record for punts returned for a TD and was a great kick returner as well. This was a miss by the Bengals.

Parrish:

Kick returns 24.7 1 TD

Punt returns 9.2 4 TDs

Mack:

Kick return: 24.5 avg 2 TDs

No punt returns

Jennings:

Kick returns: 20.0 1 TD

No punt returns

Mike Martin

Kick returns 21.9 0 TDs

Punt returns 9.9 0 TDs

Where is Mike Nugent?

Am I wrong for thinking Kevin Huber needs to be in this conversation somewhere?

Holds franchise records for gross average and net punting. Been with Bengals for 7 years now, only getting better averages as the years go on.

Am I wrong for thinking Kevin Huber needs to be in this conversation somewhere?

 

Holds franchise records for gross average and net punting. Been with Bengals for 7 years now, only getting better averages as the years go on.

Pretty sure the "rules" were no current players and no players at multiple positions.

Yes,i agree. The players in the poll should be,ex players. Mike Martin was a solid player,all around!!! Could return kick offs and punts. Was a better than average wide receiver. Keep it coming guys.