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1980 NFL Draft - April 29-30

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
Anthony Munoz	1	T	Southern California	3
Kirby Criswell	2	LB	Kansas	31
Rod Horn	3	DL	Nebraska	59
Bill Glass	4	G	Baylor	86
Bryan Hicks	5	S	McNeese State	113
Jo Jo Heath	6a	KR/DB	Pittsburgh	141
Andrew Melontree (acquired from Tampa Bay in trade on 5-30-79)	6b	LB	Baylor	159
Ron Simpkins (acquired from San Francisco in trade on 7-16-79)	7a	LB	Michigan	167
Gary Don Johnson	7b	DT	Baylor	168
Mark Lyles	8	RB	Florida State	196
Greg Bright	9	S	Morehead State	224
Sandro Vitiello	10	K	Massachusetts	252
Alton Alexis	11	WR	Tulane	*281
Mike Wright	12	QB	Vanderbilt	308

*NOTE: The Bengals had the No. 280 overall choice in Round 11 but passed, allowing Baltimore to move from No. 281 to 280.

1981 NFL Draft - April 28-29

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
David Verser	1	WR	Kansas	10
Cris Collinsworth	2	WR	Florida	37
John Simmons	3	CB	Southern Methodist	64
Guy Frazier	4	LB	Wyoming	93
Benjie Pryor	5	TE	Pittsburgh	120
Rex Robinson	6	PK	Georgia	146
Jeff Schuh	7	LB	Minnesota	176
Bobby Kemp	8	S	Cal State - Fullerton	202
Jim Hannula	9a	OL	Northern Illinois	229
Samoa Samoa (acquired from San Francisco in trade on 3-19-80)	9b	RB	Washington State	230
Hubert Simpson	10	RB	Tennessee	258
Robert Jackson	11	S	Central Michigan	285
Mark O'Connell	12	QB/K	Ball State	312

1982 NFL Draft - April 27-28

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
Glen Collins	1	DE	Mississippi State	26
Emanuel Weaver	2	NT	South Carolina	54
Rodney Holman	3	TE	Tulane	82
Rodney Tate	4	RB	Texas	110
Paul Sorensen	5	DB	Washington State	138
Arthur King	6	NT	Grambling	166
Ben Needham	7	LB	Michigan	194
Kari Yli-Renko	8	T	Cincinnati	222
James Bennett	9	WR	Northwestern State (La.)	250
Larry Hogue	10	CB	Utah State	278
Russell Davis	11	RB	Idaho	305
Dan Feraday	12	QB	Toronto	333

1983 NFL Draft - April 26-27

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection Number
Dave Rimington	1	C	Nebraska	25
Ray Horton	2	CB	Washington	53
Jimmy Turner	3	CB	UCLA	81
Steve Maidlow	4	LB	Michigan State	109
Jeff Christensen	5	QB	Eastern Illinois	137
Kiki DeAyala (acquired from New Orleans in trade on 8-20-82)	6a	LB	Texas	152
Larry Kinnebrew	6b	RB	Tennessee State	165
James Griffin	7	S	Middle Tennessee State	193
Mike Martin	8	WR	Illinois	221
Stanley Wilson	9	RB	Oklahoma	248
Tim Krumrie	10	NT	Wisconsin	276
Gary Williams	11	WR	Ohio State	304
Andre Young	12	LB	Bowling Green	332

1984 NFL Draft - May 1-2

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
(acquired from Tampa Bay in trade on 6-2-83, then sent to New England in trade on 4-4-84)	1			1
Ricky Hunley	1a	LB	Arizona	7
Pete Koch (acquired from New England in trade on 4-4-84)	1b	DE	Maryland	16
Brian Blados (acquired from New England in trade on 4-4-84)	1c	OL	North Carolina	28
Boomer Esiason	2	QB	Maryland	38
Stanford Jennings	3	RB	Furman	65
John Farley	4	RB	Cal State - Sacramento	92
Barney Bussey	5	DB	South Carolina State	119
Don Kern	6	TE	Arizona State	150
Leo Barker	7	LB	New Mexico State	177
Bruce Reimers	8	T	Iowa State	204
Bruce Kozerski	9	OL	Holy Cross	231
Aaron Jackson	10a	LB	North Carolina	262
Brent Ziegler (acquired from New England in trade on 4-4-84)	10b	RB	Syracuse	265
Steve McKeaver	11	RB	Central State (Okla.)	289
Steve Racquet	12	LB	Holy Cross	316
Wayne Peace	1-s	QB	Florida	*7
Bill Johnson	2-s	RB	Arkansas State	*35
Tom Kilkenny	3-s	LB	Temple	*65

*NOTE: On June 5, the NFL held a supplemental draft for college seniors who had been eligible for the league's common draft a month earlier but had already signed a contract with a pro team in either the USFL or the CFL and thus were not selected by an NFL team in that common draft. In the supplemental draft, NFL teams obtained the rights to 84 of those players (76 USFL and eight CFL). The Bengals drafted three of them: QB Wayne Peace (had signed with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL), RB Bill Johnson (Denver Gold, USFL) and LB Tom Kilkenny (Chicago Blitz, USFL). Of those three, only Johnson later joined the Bengals (in 1985), and he went on to make the team's all-time roster (played from '85-87).

1985 NFL Draft - April 30 - May 1

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
Eddie Brown	1a	WR	Miami (Fla.)	13
Emanuel King (acquired from Seattle in trade on 6-29-83)	1b	LB	Alabama	25
Carl Zander	2	LB	Tennessee	43
Sean Thomas	3	CB	Texas Christian	70
Anthony Tuggle	4	CB	Nicholls State	97
Tony Degrate	5a	NT	Texas	127
Lee Davis (acquired from New England in trade on 4-4-84)	5b	CB	Mississippi	129
Eric Stokes (acquired from Tampa Bay in trade on 6-24-84)	6a	T	Northeastern	148
Keith Lester	6b	TE	Murray State	154
Kim Locklin (acquired from Atlanta in trade on 8-23-84)	7a	RB	New Mexico State	172
Joe Walter	7b	T	Texas Tech	181
Dave Strobel	8	LB	Iowa	211
Keith Cruise	9	DE	Northwestern	238
Bernard King	10	LB	Syracuse	265
Harold Stanfield	11	TE	Mississippi College	*296
Louis Garza	12	T	New Mexico State	322

*NOTE: The Bengals had the No. 295 overall choice in Round 11 but passed, allowing New England to move from No. 296 to 295.

1986 NFL Draft - April 29-30

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
Joe Kelly	1a	LB	Washington	11
Tim McGee (acquired from Denver in trade on 10-9-84)	1b	WR	Tennessee	21
Lewis Billups	2	CB	North Alabama	38
Jim Skow (acquired from Atlanta in trade on 4-2-86)	3a	DE	Nebraska	58
Mike Hammerstein	3b	DE	Michigan	65
David Fulcher (acquired from Denver in trade on 10-9-84)	3c	S	Arizona State	78
Eric Kattus	4a	TE	Michigan	91
Doug Gaynor (acquired from Seattle in trade on 10-15-85)	4b	QB	Cal State - Long Beach	99
Leon White	5	LB	Brigham Young	123
Gary Hunt	6	CB	Memphis State	152
Pat Franklin	7	RB	Southwest Texas State	177
David Douglas	8	T	Tennessee	204
Cary Whittingham	9	LB	Brigham Young	230
Jeff Shaw	10	NT	Salem College	262
Tim Stone	11a	T	Kansas State	289
Tom Flaherty (acquired from Green Bay in trade on 9-4-85)	11b	LB	Northwestern	294
Steve Bradley	12	QB	Indiana	316

1987 NFL Draft - April 28-29

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
Jason Buck	1	DE	Brigham Young	17
Eric Thomas	2	CB	Tulane	49
Leonard Bell	3a	FS	Indiana	76
Skip McClendon (acquired from Seattle in trade on 8-27-86)	3b	DE	Arizona State	77
Jim Riggs	4	TE	Clemson	103
Marc Logan	5a	RB	Kentucky	130
Greg Horne (acquired from Denver in trade on 10-9-84)	5b	P/PK	Arkansas	139
Sonny Gordon	6	FS	Ohio State	157
Chris Thatcher	7	G/C	Lafayette	188
Solomon Wilcots	8	CB	Colorado	215
Craig Raddatz	9	LB	Wisconsin	242
David McCluskey	10	RB	Georgia	269
Jim Warne	11	T	Arizona State	296
John Hollifield	12	RB	West Virginia	328

1988 NFL Draft - April 24-25

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
Rickey Dixon	1	CB	Oklahoma	5
Eibert "Ickey" Woods	2	RB	Nevada - Las Vegas	31
Kevin Walker	3	LB	Maryland	57
David Grant	4	NT	West Virginia	84
Herb Wester	5	T	Iowa	114
Paul Jetton	6	OL	Texas	141
Rich Romer	7	LB	Union (N.Y.)	168
Curtis Maxey	8	NT	Grambling	195
Brandy Wells	9	DB	Notre Dame	226
Ellis Dillahunt	10	DB	East Carolina	253
Paul Hickert	11	K	Murray State	280
Carl Parker	12	WR	Vanderbilt	307

1989 NFL Draft - April 23-24

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Player	Round	Position	College	Selection
(sent to Atlanta in trade on 4-23-89)	1			27
Eric Ball (acquired from Atlanta in trade on 4-23-89)	2a	RB	UCLA	35
Freddie Childress	2b	G	Arkansas	55
Erik Wilhelm	3	QB	Oregon State	83
Kerry Owens (acquired from Atlanta in trade on 4-23-89)	4a	LB	Arkansas	89
Rob Woods	4b	T	Arizona	111
Natu Tuatagaloa	5	NT	California	138
Craig Taylor	6	RB	West Virginia	166
Kendal Smith	7	WR	Utah State	194
Chris Chenault	8	LB	Kentucky	222
Richard Stephens	9	T	Tulsa	250
Cornell Holloway (acquired from Atlanta in trade on 4-23-89)	10a	CB	Pittsburgh	256
Bob Jean	10b	QB	New Hampshire	178
Dana Wells	11	NT	Arizona	306
Scott Jones	12	T	Washington	334

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