Behind the depth chart to Brent Jones, Wesley Walls did not see a lot of action with the San Francisco 49ers, although he did win a Super Bowl with them (XXIV) and caught a pass in the big game. Walls was injured through 1992 and 1993, and he signed with the New Orleans Saints as a Free Agent, where he played well for two seasons, but he found his greatest success with their division rival, the Carolina Panthers.
From 1996 to 2001, the Tight End was named to the Pro Bowl, with three of those campaigns seeing Walls named a Second Team All-Pro. He had twice 10 Touchdown-plus seasons and put the ball in the end zone 54 times over his career. Walls would also go for 5,291 Yards, 3,902 of which were as a Panther.
Walls entered the Carolina Panthers Ring of Honor in 2019.
Born (and died) in the most football-like city on this planet, Earth (Canton, Ohio), George Saimes would sign with the Buffalo Bills in 1963 after playing collegiately at Michigan State.
Saimes wasted no time securing a starting Defensive Back job with Buffalo, and in his second season, he earned the first of three First All-Pro Selections (the others coming in 1965 and 1967). In 1964, Saimes also began a five-year streak of AFL All-Star Selections, though he treasured more that he and the Buffalo Bills won the AFL Championship that season and the year after.
Saimes would play for the Bills until 1969 and joined the Denver Broncos for three years after. He is a member of the AFL All-Time Team.
Writers of his day called him one of the best open-field tacklers, a skill that never goes out of style!
One of the longest-tenured players in NFL history (22 seasons), his NFL career began after going undrafted in 1983 and playing all three seasons of the USFL. Landeta was selected for the All-USFL Team, and he joined the New York Giants in 1985, where he won two Super Bowls and earned two Pro Bowl selections and three First Team All-Pro selections. After the Giants, he played for the Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Green Bay Packers, and Philadelphia Eagles, and is one of the few players named to two All-Decade Teams (80s & 90s).
Dennis Smith was one of the best Defensive Backs in the history of the Denver Broncos.
A six-time Pro Bowl Selection, Smith recorded 30 Interceptions and well over 1,000 tackles, and as of this writing, is the leading tackler for the franchise as well as the top finisher in Tackles overall in the 1983 Season. While Smith does not have a Super Bowl Ring, he appeared in three of those games, where the Broncos may not have appeared in had he not been there patrolling the Secondary. Smith's career would span 14 seasons (all with Denver), and he started 170 of his 184 Games.