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Welcome to the NFL 100, The Athletic’s endeavor to identify the 100 best players in football history. As former Coryell assistant Al Saunders said in former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski’s 2010 book “The Games That Changed The NFL,” “You have to understand how tight ends were being used in the early 1980s. Kellen Winslow at a glance Position: Tight end 3-time All-Pro 9 seasons with Chargers 5-time Pro Bowler Hall of Fame class: 1995 “Kellen was a superb route-runner with great hands,” Jaworski wrote. “Go back to some of the great tight ends: Ditka, Mackey, Chester, Mark Bavaro, Keith Jackson,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said in Jaworski’s book. “ is the main reason, I believe, that he’s considered one of the greatest of all time and a Hall of Famer,” former Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts told Chargers.com of Winslow in January.

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