The NFL 100: From Derrick Brooks to Tom Brady, The Athletic finds the best players in football history
New York TimesWelcome to the NFL 100, The Athletic’s endeavor to identify the 100 best players in football history. “You can put seasoning salt on anything and it’s going to make it better.” MORE Upshaw was a vocal leader of both the Raiders — “He never stopped talking, you would hear him before you could see him,” Art Shell said — and the NFL Players Association, where he served as the executive director until his death. “If you look at the history of the NFL, you’re going to find out that he was one of the most influential people that the league has known,” John Madden once said. “If Junior Seau isn’t one of the best to ever play the game,” ex-Chargers coach Bobby Ross once said, “then I don’t know who is.” MORE Adderley was a star on a Packers team full of future Hall of Famers. “If I had my career on the line for one drive after all the football I’ve seen in my life, John Unitas would be the guy I want,” said Ernie Accorsi.
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