Complex sentence: He was drafted in the first round of the 1977 NFL Draft, with the third overall selection, by the Cincinnati Bengals and played for them for 12 seasons from 1977 until his retirement in 1988.
Split into simpler sentences: He was drafted in the first round of the 1977 NFL Draft, with the third overall selection, by the Cincinnati Bengals. Edwards played for the Bengals for 12 seasons from 1977 until his retirement in 1988.