Cincinnati Bengals

Every NFL player the encyclopedia attributes to the Cincinnati Bengalsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth (complete 1999+, legend-era via validated Wikipedia/NFL.com grids).

Every position room Cincinnati Bengals has passed down, steadiest first. The QB room is their most stable — 8 holders across 45 years, a new one every 5.6 on average.

1. QB8 holders · 7 handoffs · 1981–2025 · one every 5.6y
   Turk Schonert1981–1989→Boomer Esiason1984–1997→David Klingler1992–1995→Jeff Blake1994–1999→Jon Kitna2001–2005→Carson Palmer2004–2010→Andy Dalton2011–2019→Joe Burrow2020–2025
2. Specialists8 holders · 7 handoffs · 1988–2025 · one every 4.8y
   Lee Johnson1988–1998→Doug Pelfrey1993–1999→Shayne Graham2003–2009→Kevin Huber2009–2022→Mike Nugent2010–2016→Randy Bullock2016–2020→Evan McPherson2021–2025→Ryan Rehkow2024–2025
3. TE16 holders · 15 handoffs · 1982–2025 · one every 2.8y
   Rodney Holman1982–1992→Eric Kattus1986–1991→Jim Riggs1988–1992→Craig Thompson1992–1993→Tony McGee1993–2001→Troy Sadowski1994–1996→Marco Battaglia1996–2000→Matt Schobel2002–2005→Reggie Kelly2003–2010→Jermaine Gresham2010–2014→Tyler Eifert2013–2019→Tyler Kroft2015–2018→C.J. Uzomah2015–2021→Drew Sample2019–2025→Tanner Hudson2023–2025→Mike Gesicki2024–2025
4. WR22 holders · 21 handoffs · 1981–2025 · one every 2y
   David Verser1981–1984→Cris Collinsworth1981–1988→Tim McGee1986–1994→Jeff Query1992–1994→Carl Pickens1992–1999→Darnay Scott1994–2001→David Dunn1995–1997→Peter Warrick2000–2004→T.J. Houshmandzadeh2001–2008→Chad Johnson2001–2010→Andre Caldwell2008–2011→Jerome Simpson2008–2011→Andrew Hawkins2011–2013→A.J. Green2011–2020→Marvin Jones2012–2015→Mohamed Sanu2012–2015→Brandon LaFell2016–2017→Alex Erickson2016–2020→Tyler Boyd2016–2023→Tee Higgins2020–2025→Ja'Marr Chase2021–2025→Andrei Iosivas2023–2025
5. RB27 holders · 26 handoffs · 1983–2025 · one every 1.6y
   Larry Kinnebrew1983–1987→Stanford Jennings1984–1990→James Brooks1984–1991→Ickey Woods1988–1991→Craig Taylor1989–1991→Eric Ball1989–1994→Harold Green1990–1995→Derrick Fenner1992–1994→Jeff Cothran1994–1996→Eric Bieniemy1995–1998→Brian Milne1996–1999→Ki-Jana Carter1996–1999→Corey Dillon1997–2003→Brandon Bennett1998–2003→Rudi Johnson2002–2007→Jeremi Johnson2003–2009→Chris Perry2004–2008→Kenny Watson2004–2008→Cedric Benson2008–2011→Bernard Scott2009–2012→Brian Leonard2009–2012→BenJarvus Green-Ellis2012–2013→Giovani Bernard2013–2020→Jeremy Hill2014–2017→Joe Mixon2017–2023→Samaje Perine2019–2025→Chase Brown2023–2025
6. LB24 holders · 23 handoffs · 1990–2025 · one every 1.5y
   James Francis1990–1998→Ricardo McDonald1992–1997→Steve Tovar1993–1997→Andre Collins1995–1997→Gerald Dixon1996–1997→Reinard Wilson1997–2002→Steve Foley1998–2001→Takeo Spikes1998–2002→Brian Simmons1998–2006→Adrian Ross1999–2003→Kevin Hardy2003–2004→Landon Johnson2004–2007→Rashad Jeanty2006–2009→Dhani Jones2007–2010→Keith Rivers2008–2010→Rey Maualuga2009–2016→Vincent Rey2011–2018→Emmanuel Lamur2012–2015→Vontaze Burfict2012–2018→Nick Vigil2016–2019→Jordan Evans2017–2021→Germaine Pratt2019–2024→Akeem Davis-Gaither2020–2024→Logan Wilson2020–2025

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1981–2025 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.