Unfinished Painting: The Untold Story of Bengals Phenom Greg Cook

To most Bengals fans, Ken Anderson is the greatest quarterback in franchise history, with Joe Burrow coming up fast on the back turn. But the most talented quarterback in franchise history? Maybe the most talented in the history of the NFL? That would be Greg Cook, whose promising career was cut short by a shoulder injury after one season.

In this compelling narrative by longtime Cincinnati sportswriter Bill Koch, club president Mike Brown calls Cook the most talented player ever to play for the Bengals. “If he had stayed healthy, we would have been the dominant team (in the NFL) for the course of his career,” says Brown. No less an authority than the late Bill Walsh, the Hall of Fame coach of the San Francisco 49ers, called Cook “the greatest talent to play the position. He could play today or at any time in the history of the NFL.”