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Bruce Armstrong would start all 212 of his games at Left Tackle in a career that was spent exclusively with the New England Patriots. Armstrong's career predated the Brady dynasty, so he is not as celebrated as he should be, but this is a six-time Pro Bowl Selection who was also a Second Team All-Pro twice. He was also a…
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Coming to the NFL as the 6th Overall Pick in 1939, Bill Osmanski was a star at Holy Cross when that school was at its peak. The Fullback had one of the best starts of anyone at his position as the Chicago Bear would lead the NFL in Rushing Yards with 699, and in the 1940 NFL Championship, he rushed…
Doug Wilkerson was all set to play college ball at Michigan State but an incident with another student in his senior year of high school led to its revocation. It did not impact his path to the professional ranks, as even though he went to the small HBCU school of North Carolina Central, but shone so bright that he was…
From San Diego State, La’Roi Glover took a longer path for NFL stardom. He was a 5th Round Pick with the Oakland Raiders, but they would cut him a year later, and he would be picked up by the New Orleans Saints. In New Orleans, he became a star, and in 2000 he would be named a First Team All-Pro,…
John Niland won the starting job at Left Guard for good in his second season in the NFL (1967) with the Dallas Cowboys, and would then go on to stake a claim as one of the elite Offensive Guards in the National Football League. Niland would be named to the next six Pro Bowls and landed a pair of First…
Born in Italy and raised in the United States, Bruno Banducci played his college ball for Stanford but was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1944. Banducci was more at home in 1946 when the Guard joined the San Francisco 49ers of the upstart All-American Football Conference. Banducci stayed there for the remainder of his career, which included the migration…
One of the most successful Cornerbacks in Ohio State history, Antoine Winfield was an All-American who won both the Jim Thorpe Award and Jack Tatum Trophy in 1998, which propelled him to a First Round Pick where he landed in nearby Buffalo. The Bills used him as the third Corner as a rookie, but he was a starter thereafter and…
A member of the All-Time Pittsburgh Steelers team, Carnell Lake, would be named to four of his five Pro Bowls there, those four being consecutive (1994 to 1997). Used predominantly at Strong Safety, Lake would be A First Team All-Pro in 1997 and is one of the few Defensive Backs how had at least 15 Sacks and 15 Interceptions. Lake…
The 4th Overall Pick in 1977 from USC, Marvin Powell wasted little time affixing himself as the starting Right Tackle for the New York Jets. In 1979, Powell would begin a five-year run as a perennial Pro Bowl Selection, and in '79, 1981 & 1982, he was a First Team All-Pro. Without Powell's protection and presence, the offensive game would…
Ralph Neely was drafted by the Houston Oilers of the American Football League and the Baltimore Colts of the NFL, and he had secretly agreed to play for the Oilers (it was kept a secret so that he could play for the University of Oklahoma in the Gator Bowl).
From the legendary Matthews family, Clay Matthews III became a perfect fit for Lambeau Field. Matthews was a star Linebacker since the moment he began, earning a Pro Bowl selection in his rookie year and making five more since. Matthews has excelled at pass rushing and whenever you watch a game that featured Green Bay it is likely that Matthews…
The Peanut Punch. Every week in the NFL, there is a contest where the announcer references those three words when a defensive player punches the ball out of a carrier’s arm, resulting in a forced fumble. It is part of the football lexicon and is practiced by every defender in football. It all began with Charles “Peanut” Tillman. From Louisiana-Lafayette,…
From the University of Minnesota, Rick Upchurch came to the Denver Broncos in 1975, and like many Wide Receivers, he was used as a returner as a rookie. This was the role in which he was he would primarily be used in his first four seasons. In that time span, he was a Pro Bowler and a First Team All-Pro…
At first, this might seem like a person who may not deserve a rank, but the more we look at it, the more we think he deserves a spot on this list.
One of the more popular Atlanta Falcons of his day, Bill Fralic, was the second overall Draft Pick in 1985 and immediately caught the attention of the Falcons fanbase as an All-Rookie Selection.
While Goose Gonsoulin was a 17th Round Pick by the San Francisco 49ers, the Baylor Bear was a 2nd Rounder by the Denver Broncos of the AFL, the professional team he elected to play for.
Born in Russia but immigrating to Wisconsin at the age of four, Charles "Buckets" Goldenberg would play college football in his home state of Wisconsin and would remain in the “Badger State” as a professional by signing with the Green Bay Packers in 1933. The Packers would be the only team he would play for and would stay with until…
Duane Putnam was a 6th Round Pick by the Los Angeles Rams from the Pacific University in 1952, and by '54, he would establish himself as one of the premier Guards in the NFL.
Drafted 3rd Overall in 1984 from Michigan State, the New York Giants would have a longtime fixture in their Linebacking corps in Carl Banks. Banks was an All-Rookie Selection, and he would later be named to the Pro Bowl and was a First Team All-Pro in 1987, the year after he was a large part of their Super Bowl XXI…