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A complete beast at the University of Alabama, Cornelius Bennett was drafted second overall in 1987 by the Indianapolis Colts and, as part of a mega-trade, would become a Buffalo Bill. With the Bills, he would help them win four straight AFC Championships and was a five-time Pro Bowl Selection. One of those seasons saw Bennett named a First Team…
Willie Anderson entered the National Football League with high expectations when the Cincinnati Bengals drafted him 10th overall in 1996. Arguably, it took Anderson a while before he lived up to what was hoped for him, but the Offensive Tackle may very well have exceeded expectations when it was all said and done. From 2003 to 2006, Anderson was named…
Cookie Gilchrist had a bizarre road to the pro football in the United States, and dare we say, had he never crossed the path of Paul Brown, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, he could have been a household name in the 1960s. Gilchrist signed(what had to be an illegal) contract with the Cleveland Browns when he was still in…
Phil Simms is a two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback, though many who watched his first five years of play may not have foreseen it. Simms may have been inconsistent early in his NFL career, but something seemed to click in 1984. It wasn’t just the influx of talent to the Giants roster, as it was at this time that Simms became…
For so long, the AFL was considered the ugly stepchild of Football. This officially changed when the Jets won Super Bowl III, and many people reevaluated their position on American Football League talent. One such person was Dave Grayson who was a pick machine. Grayson came a long way, as he went undrafted out of Oregon. Upon making the Dallas…
It may be called the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but for all intents and purposes, it only focuses on accomplishments from the NFL and, to a lesser extent, the AFL. This is too bad for Herschel Walker, who chalked up monster totals in his first three years of Pro Football but did so as a member of the New Jersey…
Not too many Punters get drafted, but Shane Lechler was in the 5th Round out of Texas A&M in 2000 by the Oakland Raiders, who would quickly see that it was an excellent choice. Lechler would play for the Raiders for 13 seasons, and in six of those years he was named a First Team All Pro, with seven seasons…
Playing college ball at the University of North Texas, Abner Haynes chose to stay in his home state and signed with the Dallas Texans of the AFL rather than the Pittsburgh Steelers, who selected him in the 5th Round in 1960. Haynes was the first breakout star of the new league, winning their inaugural Rushing Title while being named the…
A 15th Round Pick from Widener, Billy "White Shoes" Johnson would become one of the most exciting players in the National Football League almost as soon as he arrived. Chosen by the Houston Oilers, Johnson played at Wide Receiver (accumulating 4,211 Yards with 25 Touchdowns over his career), but it was as a returner that he excelled and made magic…
It is hard not to consider Clay Matthews Jr. as part of football royalty. How can you not? He is the son of former San Francisco 49ers Clay Matthews Sr., the father of Clay Matthews III, the brother of Hall of Famer Bruce Matthews, and the uncle of Jake and Kevin Matthews. As for this specific member of the Matthews…
As the second draft pick of 1969, George Kunz had the fortune of playing for Notre Dame (when that mattered) and winning a National Championship there. He didn’t have the same luck when the Atlanta Falcons selected him. This isn’t to say that it was all bad, but the Falcons could only reach average status at best during the 1970s. …
Albert Lewis came to the Kansas City Chiefs as a 3rd Round Pick from Grambling State in 1983. Playing cornerback, Lewis took over the left side in his second season as a pro, and in the latter half of the 80s he emerged as one of the top Defensive Backs in the National Football League. Lewis went to four straight…
A lot of people talk about “Playstation” numbers, whereby offensive stars put up offensive numbers that don’t seem realistic. John Hadl put up those types of numbers when Quarterbacks generally played more conservatively, decades before the Madden craze took over. On three separate occasions, John Hadl eclipsed 3,000 yards passing. This is expected of many Quarterbacks now, but it was…
The recipient of five straight Pro Bowls as a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Defensive End Justin Smith was a major force of the Niners ' defense and was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year by multiple publications in 2011. For a five-year stretch (2009-13), Smith was in the conversation for the top Defensive End in football,…
Shannon Sharpe may be considered the best tight end of the 1990s, but a consensus number two would likely be Ben Coates. Coincidentally, the two wrapped up their careers at the start of the new millennium as teammates for the Baltimore Ravens, winning Super Bowl XXXV. Ben Coates started slow, but once Bill Parcells entered the New England Patriots picture,…
You don't expect an eighth-round pick to become one of the best at his position in his first four seasons, but Larry Brown, the afterthought from Kansas State, did exactly that. The new Washington Redskins Head Coach, Vince Lombardi, pegged Brown to become the starting Running Back, and he blossomed after Lombardi noticed that he was hearing-impaired in one year,…
From the University of Pittsburgh, McCoy was phenomenal with the Panthers, winning the Big East Offensive Player of the Year (2008) and parlaying that into a Second Round Pick to the same-state Philadelphia Eagles in 2009. McCoy played his first six years with the Eagles, four of which would see the Running Back exceed the four-digit mark in Rushing Yards. The…
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Erich Barnes came out of Purdue when the Chicago Bears drafted him in 1958. The Cornerback played there for three seasons and went to the Pro Bowl in 1959. After that, Barnes had the best run of his career: he played for the New York Giants for four years, earned Pro Bowl selections each year, and made First Team All-Pro…
A member of the 100 Sack Club, Robert Mathis proved time and time again over his career that he was a certified beast on the pass rush. Following a season where he was a vital part of a Colts defense that would win Super Bowl XLI, Mathis would be named to six consecutive Pro Bowls, culminating in 2013, when he…
