re: Could the NFL field a competitive all-white team?

Absolutely


OFFENSE




QB: Take your pick
Brady, Manning, Brees, Rodgers

WR:
Wes Welker, Eric Decker, Jordy Nelson, Danny Amendola, Brian Hartline

Running back:
Peyton Hillis, Toby Gearhart, Danny Woodhead

FB: Rhett Ellison, Jed Collins, John Kuhn. I'd choose one of these, and have James Casey as the 3rd TE/FB

TE: Gronkoswki, Witten

RT: Sebastien Volmer, Eric Winston

LT: Joe Staley, Joe Thomas

C: Chris Myers, Alex Mack, Nick Mangold

G: Marshall Yanda, Evan Mathis, John Sitton, Logan Mankins



This would be a very good offense. Excuse me, a great offense. They would eat defenses alive.
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DEFENSE

DT: Kyle Williams, Justin Bannan, Gary Gibson, Derek Landri

DE: Jared Allen, JJ Watt, Justin Smith, Chris Long, Jason Babin

ILB: Brian Cushing, Sean Lee, Chad Greenway (also could play OLB), Urlacher, Laurinitis, Kuechly

OLB: Clay Matthews, Paul Kruger, Jarett Johnson

Great front 7 here.

Here comes the one problem:

D-backs

CB: The true weakness of the all-white team. I guess you'd have to settle with Edelman? From there, you'd have to go with some fillers.

You'd fill in spots with these guys:

S: Eric Weddle, Harrison Smith, Chris Conte, Jim Leonhard


Weddle is a very good player, Smith is solid. I'd have them both at safeties where they are comfortable, at least giving you to guys who can play in the backfield. I'd play Edelman at corner, and then maybe Leonhard or try Conte.

The team would have a sick front 7 making the defensive backs have easier jobs, but they would still be incredibly weak at corner.


P: Mcafee, Morestead... take your pick from whoever.

K: Blair Walsh, Janikowski... anyone.

I was editing so much that I erased him and forgot to add him back.


Forgot to add Hartline too.

Yep. Obviously a lot of college football only fans in here saying there would only be a few good defensive players. The team is loaded everywhere but cb and running back. They would have to play some sort of zone blitz scheme but since the entire team would be coaches sons I think they could figure it out. They'd get a shitload of pressure on the qb.

I'd actually be ok with the trio of Gearhart, Hillis and Woodhead. Under a creative coach like Belichick or Payton, Woodhead is a weapon.


Apparently Deadspin did a Madden Simulation a year or so ago. Obviously the teams would look a lot different. I'm about to make my own on here. Maybe I'll make a thread of it, and let people give reasons as to which would win, or if the white team would have a chance:

Deadspin's All White vs All Black: Madden Simulation

With P Manning as QB, the offense could "compete". Not the D, unless you included Samoans or Hawaiians.

Double.

The black secondary vs. the possessions wide receivers/ student of the game QB would be the match up to watch.

Well if we are going white all stars vs black all stars it's no contest.

I would say that Watt and Justin smith would be a better 3-4 DE combo than anything the black team could muster.

If I am going all black then could I include guys like; Russell Wilson, Jimmy Graham, Tony Gonzalez, etc?