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The Athletic’s List of The Top 100 NFL Players of All-Time
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:43 am
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:43 am
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100 WLB Derrick Brooks
99 C Dermontti Dawson
98 RB Steve Van Buren
97 C/LS Jim Otto
96 TE Mike Ditka
95 QB Fran Tarkenton
94 Flanker (WR) Crazy Legs Hirsch
93 MLB Mike Singletary
92 RB/Flanker (WR) Lenny Moore
91 LDE Willie Davis
90 CB Willie Brown
89 QB Bobby Layne
88 CB Darrell Green
87 CB Champ Bailey
86 DT Buck Buchanan
85 OC/LB (2way) Bulldog Turner
84 OC/LB (2way) Mel Hein
83 DT Leo Nomellini
82 TE Kellen Winslow
81 TE John Mackey
80 MLB Willie Lanier
79 CB Mike Haynes
78 QB Roger Staubach
77 SLB/WLB Ted Hendricks
76 LT Art Shell
75 WR Paul Warfield
74 SLB/LS Bobby Bell
73 RB/FB Marion Motley
72 RB Adrian Peterson
71 CB Mel Blount
70 RB Marshall Faulk
69 QB Terry Bradshaw
68 CB/DB Charles Woodson
67 LG Eugene Upshaw
66 RB Earl Campbell
65 MLB Joe Schmidt
64 LT Walter Jones
63 Split End (WR) Raymond Berry
62 MLB Ray Nitschke
61 QB Bart Starr
60 LT Jonathan Ogden
59 WLB/MLB Junior Seau
58 CB Herb Adderley
57 C/LS Mike Webster
56 TE Rob Gronkowski
55 WR Lance Alworth
54 OLB/C/mlb Chuck Bednarik
53 RB/KR Gale Sayers
52 SLB Jack Ham
51 RB LaDainian Tomlinson
50 CB/s Dick Night Train Lane
49 QB Steve Young
48 QB Sid Luckman
47 DT Randy White
46 TE Tony Gonzalez
45 G/t Larry Allen
44 G/C Bruce Matthews
43 QB Drew Brees
42 LT/LG/rt Jim Parker
41 RB OJ Simpson
40 RB Eric Dickerson
39 S Ed Reed
38 WR Randy Moss
37 MLB/ilb Jack Lambert
36 RT/rg/lg Forrest Gregg
35 DE/dt J.J. Watt
34 LDE Gino Marchetti
33 FB/2 Way Bronko Nagurski
32 RDT Alan Page
31 RDT/lde Bob Lilly
30 LDT Merlin Olsen
29 RB Emmitt Smith
28 CB/kr/pr Deion Sanders
27 RB Barry Sanders
26 CB/nb/s Rod Woodson
25 LG John Hannah
24 DT Aaron Donald
23 QB/DB/P Sammy Baugh
22 QB Brett Favre
21 QB Aaron Rodgers
20 RDE Bruce Smith
19 S/cb Ronnie Lott
18 QB Dan Marino
17 MLB/ilb Ray Lewis
16 LDE Deacon Jones
15 QB John Elway
14 DT Mean Joe Greene
13 End/WR Don Hutson
12 LT Anthony Muñoz
11 QB Otto Graham
10 MLB Dick Butkus
9 QB Johnny Unitas
8 RB Walter Payton
7 QB Peyton Manning
6 QB Joe Montana
5 LDE Reggie White
4 LB Lawrence Taylor
3 WR Jerry Rice
2 FB Jim Brown
1 QB Tom Brady
I would personally have Marino, Rodgers, and Brees ahead of Elway. Also seems crazy to me that there are more tight ends (Gronk and Tony Gonzalez) than wide receivers (Randy Moss) who started their NFL careers after 1990 in the top 100.
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Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:45 am to Bench McElroy
I would still rank Jim Brown number one over Brady. Awesome to see Lawrence Taylor in the top five.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:47 am to Bench McElroy
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I would personally have Marino, Rodgers, and Brees ahead of Elway.
Nope
Rodgers is too high
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:48 am to Saint Alfonzo
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I would still rank Jim Brown number one over Brady.
quote:I’m sure you would.
Syracuse fan
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:49 am to Bench McElroy
Favre is horrifically overrated 22.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:50 am to Bench McElroy
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1 QB Tom Brady
Oh boy
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:52 am to Bench McElroy
Donald at 24, watt at 35, but moss at 38?
watt had a hof-caliber 4 year stretch, same with donald.
moss had arguably the 2nd best WR career of all time.
watt had a hof-caliber 4 year stretch, same with donald.
moss had arguably the 2nd best WR career of all time.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:53 am to Bench McElroy
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1 QB Tom Brady
tGOAT
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:54 am to Bench McElroy
No Troy Polamalu?
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:57 am to MetArl15
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I’m sure you would.
Lol, yeah, I have a little bias. But most people nowadays don't realize how good Jim Brown really was. There has never been another football player like him.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 11:59 am to Bench McElroy
Drew Brees is way overrated. He was a garbage time, check down, stat machine and nothing more.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:00 pm to jlovel7
quote:the beacon has been lit
Drew Brees is way overrated. He was a garbage time, check down, stat machine and nothing more
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:05 pm to Bench McElroy
Ed Reed needs to be higher than #39
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:10 pm to Bench McElroy
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38 WR Randy Moss
This is a joke. There are not 37 football players all time who have been better than the most physically gifted player to ever step on a NFL field.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:11 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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Awesome to see Lawrence Taylor in the top five.
LT: top 5
Rickey Jackson: not ranked
I'm not arguing that LT wasn't great, but the credit he gets for doing something that Rickey and Andre Tippett were doing at the same time is not cool. And something that Jerry Glanville and Bum Phillips were doing before he even got into the NFL.
This post was edited on 9/7/21 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:18 pm to Bench McElroy
That list tries too hard to include all generations. It's really hard to compare great players from vastly different times, but some of the inclusions just seem like deliberate reaches in order to meet a quota for the old guard.
The order of the rankings are more perplexing, though, to me. The QB rankings are a mess, and Adrian Peterson and Marshall Faulk are criminally low. Faulk revolutionized the way the position is utilized, and is still probably the best two-way back in history, and Peterson was the best pure runner not named Barry Sanders or Jim Brown, for sure, and he, Dickerson, and Simpson are basically tied for that third spot, as I can't really separate them as players. But whoever put this list together put Faulk and Peterson way behind those guys.
The order of the rankings are more perplexing, though, to me. The QB rankings are a mess, and Adrian Peterson and Marshall Faulk are criminally low. Faulk revolutionized the way the position is utilized, and is still probably the best two-way back in history, and Peterson was the best pure runner not named Barry Sanders or Jim Brown, for sure, and he, Dickerson, and Simpson are basically tied for that third spot, as I can't really separate them as players. But whoever put this list together put Faulk and Peterson way behind those guys.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:21 pm to boston vol
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quote:
1 QB Tom Brady
Oh boy
While personally for me Jerry Rice will always be The GOAT, I can’t really disagree with someone who would put Brady over him. I don’t have to like it, though.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:26 pm to Bench McElroy
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QB Tom Brady
Lol best team career =\= best player
Drop him down outside of the top 25, move everyone else up a spot, then swap Brown/Rice and Montana/Manning.
Sanders should be higher and Emmitt should be lower.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:26 pm to jlovel7
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Drew Brees is way overrated. He was a garbage time, check down, stat machine and nothing more.
In reality Drew Brees had the most comebacks of all time only for his shitty defenses to then blow on the last possession of the game.
Also there is no way that Calvin Johnson is not in the top 100 players of all time.
This post was edited on 9/7/21 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 9/7/21 at 12:29 pm to TheeRealCarolina
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Lol best team career =\= best player
He’s got the stats, the rings, and the longevity. No other player comes close.
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