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Frank Gore is now the NFL's 4th-leading all-time rusher. Smith, Payton, Sanders...Gore.

Peterson missed like 2 full seasons

Condor Gaming plus Gore has 2 years on Peterson career wise.

Plus he never led the league in any catagory that makes you pay attention to running backs. He wasn't underrated, he was just kinda there.

@@deandrenicholas2545 yup. Gore is the definition of longevity and consistency. Hes been a reliable work horse for a very long time but never anything special.

Simeon Rice was soooo underrated. So was Hugh Douglas!

юсиф алиев Isaac Bruce was a terrific wide receiver that is underrated/overlooked. So was Holt for that matter. There’s a logjam at WR, it’s going to be difficult for a lot of excellent wideouts to get in. Because of the way the game is now, different rules and different offensive philosophies, there’s a lot of quality wideouts with numbers that dwarf HOF WRs of the past. Same thing with quarterbacks.

Greatest show on turf... Rams nasty in that Kurt Warner era

Everybody forgets about S. Rice for some reason. He was a beast.

Both of those players were extremely underrated.

Harry Engel fair enough lol

Isaac Punch 😙😙🤣

Y.A. Tittle and Johnny Unitas were the more popular quarterbacks of that time. Bart's a lot more appreciated now as the leader of that great offense that the Packers had in the 60's, but he didn't have the passing numbers that Tittle and Unitas had.

Harry Engel when you have so many good players someone gets overlooked

That Terrance Moore guy made the argument in my mind: he won FIVE championships! Five! Like he said, it's more than Bradshaw and Montana, as well as the likes of every single quarterback ever minus Brady. For winning five championships he is not talked about nearly as much as other QBs.

JustinR20 😂😂😂

We should sterilize people like that, let alone give his ignorant ass a platform.

Scott Farell he came out in the lste 90s with that voice and catch phrases like how can I be the man when you the man and you freak like you like to be call that we need those is football but really not as well as he thinks he does then again look at it actually seems to be one of the voices on actually he's just annoying he was early in his career

BECAUSE of that voice - its interesting at least. I dont personally like the guy, but its easy to see the appeal

@@aaronbradley3232 What in tarnation did you even say?

Yea maybe media didnt rant about him but truly anyone who would watch him play almost instantly knew he was good I dont think he should be on this list.

Too bad he played in LTs era

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Facts literally Marshall Faulk jr

Loved and hated Westbrook. And I only hated him because I’m a Giants fan. Damn he was so good and fun to watch.

James Long so basically every position.

Troy Clark I mean if ur a smart ass about it then technically every position but what I was actually talking about was those positions are where the more underrated players are and they had all QBs n WR on their list...im sorry u missed what was going on here.

lemfandango two big ass men fighting ain’t boring

lemfandango if u have a superficial mind-set that thinks like a child under 10 years than yes it's just as "boring" as world history. But you like the things in life with deeper meaning or you care more about truth n reality than action and embellished story lines than the video would be realistic n not boring at all.

Every QB, running back and Wide Receiver knows that the core of their success is the effectiveness of the offensive line. People who have never played high school football does not understand. The same way the success of linebackers is often because of the effectiveness of their defensive tackles ability to hold off blockers. I didn't understand the role of defensive tackles until I played linebacker in high school. In other words, if you've never played organized football, you may not understand why James Long is saying.

Ken Anderson and Ken Riley should be in the HOF. Most people never heard of Ken Riley either. Ask Kenny Stabler and other players about both of them.

Ken Anderson was the first quarterback to run Walsh's offense system.

How the hell is Bart Start underrated?

Ken Anderson for sure.

I thought the same thing

Curtis martin

TheCrunchySopa go jags

Lenny Leonard he was very good and is rightfully a hall of famer

Bart Starr is number 1? Wtf

Huge facts

Westbrook wasn't nearly as fast as Sproles though.

Westbrook was so much more of a difference maker. He was the featured workhorse for like 7 seasons. Sproles never saw more than 50% of the snaps

Westbrook was much more than sproles. Westbrook was Faulk-lite. Sproles is more of a scat back. He has never had to shoulder the load and carry the ball 200 plus times a season. Westbrook did that many many times. Honestly, I love both guys because im an Eagles fan but comparing them is honestly insulting both of them, mostly westbrook.

West was a lot bigger than sproles dude

Never heard of this bat starr you're talking about...😂

Thank you bro

THANK YOU

Only 1 Defensive player on the list.

I definitely would not have Dawson, Harrison, and Starr on this list. Oh, and Cunningham, he was overrated if anything.

100%

Sphere723 facts

No. You mean he WOULD have been in the HOF... That injury did in fact happen unfortunately and it cut his career FAR too short for HOF consideration. You can't just guess at or assume a career that didn't happen. You really just can't...

I think Len Bias should be in the HOF. If he didn't OD and die his career would have been GREAT... No. Stupid.

Yes

That high leg kick!!!

Damn is Roger Craig still not in the Hall of Fame?

Also managed the SF Giants into the World Series.

Ikr i still can't believe he's not in the HOF?

I am with you. Roger Craig and Tom Rathmun are the reasons I'm a 49ers fan. Sure SF were in the midst a dynasty when I became a fan. I was huge and still am a huge Husker fan. So when those 2 were in SF I became a fan. My NFL team could be much different.

Reed should've been in the hall a long time ago. Same as Charles Haley. It's shameful they had to wait this long

It's a travesty that Reed is in the Hall of Fame but Drew Pearson isn't.

Facts

He was infinitely better than Brian Westbrook but doesn't get talked about AT ALL anymore. It's a shame about Holmes' neck injury. He was something else.

Didn't he go to prison?

@@BloodBoughtMinistries1 What!?! No

@@logicaldude3611 better 3 year run then Eric Dickerson no not possible.

Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson like other commenters mentioned. Also Emmitt Smith, Shaun Alexander, Terrell Davis, LaDainian Tomlinson, Marshall Faulk, I'm sure I'm missing a couple others (Adrian Peterson, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton all probably get in that conversation too). All had 3-4 year runs that were absolutely amazing. Holmes' run probably makes top 5 but I don't think his run is the best ever.

+1 He was a goldmine for fantasy because of his combined yards. Great to see him on this list, just wish he was higher.

I'm a Cowboys fan but I loved that Eagles era which is hard for me to say lol. Westbrook was hands down my favorite running back during that time besides LT. Was so fun watching that offense with McNabb, Westbrook, Owens.

Brian Westbrook was like Barry Sanders if you watch their highlights back to back it’s crazy. He’s the fastest human being I’ve seen over 10 yards. Look at how many of his plays where defenders couldn’t touch him.

John Downs because Brian Dawkins is going to be in the HOF. I’m a Redskins fan btw. Yeah he was great and for a long time.

Christian D SAME My guy was special

Steve Largent inspired Jerry Rice, held the record for most receiving yards for Decades, may have had the greatest hands of all time. Do you know who he is?

@@ethanrozling2732 yeah i do actually. Not sure what youre implying.

I was a huge fan of Barry Sanders growing up and i remember how Curtis Martin's game reminded me of Barry's. Not because of his height, Martin was almost 6ft and had the agility of a smaller back. He was a top tier athlete that could jump over the offensive line and had the speed and agility to make people miss. A good comparison of body types would be that of Marshall Faulk. The only reason Marshall gets praise over Martin is because of the offensive system he was in. Marshall was part of the most explosive offenses in history, and Martin was stuck with the Patriots (before they were "The Patriots") and then the Jets....(enough said). Martin has roughly 2k more rushing yards than Marshall and played one less year (Marshall was in a passing offense which is why he has over 6k passing yards). I agree completely that Curtis Martin is underrated.

Ethan Rozling bruh who doesn’t know who that is lol

Im with ya, but he already is in the HOF. Bart Starr at 1 was horrid

There’s a lot of guys from the 60s-80s NFL that suffer from their numbers being usurped so dramatically. Kinda like they said about Andre Reed. It was such a different sport. You look at HOF and Pro Bowl QBs from the past and without context it seems crazy that they were even starters. Jim Zorn won ROY as QB of the Seahawks in 76 with 12 Tds 27 ints and a 47% completion rate. They talk about what a great mobile Qb he was but he never rushed for more than a couple hundred yds in a season. Admittedly Largents numbers do stand up better, but still, guys like Rice, Moss, Harrison, Megatron, Fitzgerald, AB, and so on make it unfortunately easier to forget guys like Largent. Which probably made him ideal for this list lol.

Largent isn't underrated lol

@Fries Oh yeah there you go, LA Rams and then he played for us the Patriots for a while.

@Fries Also Troy Brown

Dude Westbrook on NFL 2k5 was the best lol

Madden 09 send Westbrook’s on a pitch play, 15-1 Td-20+ yard ratio 😂

Secret? Brian Dawkins is my all-time defense of player. So I used the Eagles ever year from 03-07 and Westbrook screens or out passes were literally unstoppable. I didn't realize it was a secret. I loved the 05 Eagles, one of the best teams in history!

As a Colts fan I can vouch for Taylor being an absolute monster.

Funny thing is, all those guys are rated pretty high.

Doesnt make sense that Roger Craig, Charles Haley, Marvin Harrisn, Cunningham, Reed, and Westbrook are all on this list. Those dudes are hall of famers! And if theyre not, they deserve to be!

@@cheekypasta55 Roger Craig and Cunningham aren't in. Andre Reed barely just got inducted.

Len Dawson for me is not underrated, not even overrated, he's in the middle. But I will put Daryle Lamonica or Jim Plunkett on Number 10.

John Riggins is more underrated then Bart Starr

He had hands like a WR

Marcus Allen is in the Pro Football Hall Of Fame, what do you mean? There's nothing underrated about him.

He sat on the bench for like 4 seasons. He played like 15. Hardly the majority of his career.

your right he might be all time leading rusher

They did win one without him. He was drafted in 83. They won in 82.

I was literally thinking the same thing, two incredible athletes who never got recognition they deserved.

Maybe in 2042 when Gore retires he will get his due respect

Thanks....I'm one player in...you saved me a half an hour. No Frank Gore. And after NFL just released his story harping about how nobody knows him. Wow can you sink any lower nfl? You're already a cliche of yourself...not for long

Gore is rated fine in my book. Santana Moss on the other hand is underrated. Look at who his QBs were and the stats he put up.

Also Calvin Johnson, David Johnson, and Al Gore

I don’t know. Lots of people consider him the greatest Jet of all time

My favorite R.B all time

Thats not true. No one who makes the HOF is underrated, they can be overrated though. He isnt overrated but 100% not under

Worse thing Pats losing him.

Roger Craig is underrated as well. He was the original Marshall Faulk.

Packers will have 3 HOF QBs- Starr, Favre, and Aaron Rodgers !

he def didn't deserve to be on the list tho

Nice one

Agreed.

it’s funny because I forgot about him on an under rated list 😂 I agree with you wholeheartedly but his name always gets lost in the pile. I guess that’s the definition of under rated tho

So was his dad

Overshadowed by Barry Sanders on those 1990s Detroit Lions teams!

Moore is a good example of an actually underrated guy, unlike most players on the list. Bart Starr is definitely overrated, laughable that they put him at 1 imo

Yep. And 2 of those years saved the Andy Reid era. (06 and 08) Vick saved it in 2010. But the golden era was over after Superbowl 39. Fortunately the good times are here again!

Reasons why I thought Mcnabb was on this list. I mean dude was throwing to Pinkston and Thrash for years. Reggie Brown, Charles Johnson, Torrence Smalls. Dudes like Stallworth and Kevin Curtis who are No.2 on every team but No.1 for the Eagles. Only 19 games with TO n look what they did in those 19 games. All that n his best WR really was a RB yet ppl think Mcnabb sucks especially in Philly.

@@moereese34 mcnabb gets my now for underrated because he was EXTREMELY solid but gets a bad rep from Philly idiots who were starving for a championship. Sidenote, I'm a Lehigh Valley cat and huge Eagles fan who sometimes hates this fan base

You ain't lyin. For a few seasons Brian Westbrook was all Philly had goin for itself on offense.

Westbrook was good, but he wasn’t really the entire offense. We still had people like Terrell Owens, Donovan McNabb, and DeSean Jackson. Edit: Don’t get me wrong he’s one of the best running backs in Eagles History.

Man the 00s had some great backs. Jamal Lewis , Joseph Addai , Ahmad Green

CJ2k was actually so damn good

As a commander's fan I kinda agree not most underrated of all time mind you but definitely deserves more love

He’s actually pretty funny. The “comedians” they have on the show are terribly unfunny. Whenever someone is being funny, it’s one of the sports journalists or sports radio guys.

Scott Ferrall is funny because of his voice IMO and the things he says (but mainly his voice) and the comedians can be funny like Jared Freid and Flula Borg but yeah mainly the comedians aren’t funny

Derek Thomas i'd put him in top20

He's in the HoF and is therefore automatically not underrated.

@@Musicvidsetc That's stupid. They're two different things.

@siler7 If you're in the HoF how can you be underrated? You have literally been officially acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time. Also, w/ Art Monk, specifically, he's one of the most celebrated football players of the 1980's w/ multiple Pro Bowls. Save the underrated lists for people who were great but haven't gotten the credit and awards they deserve. A good example of an underrated WR is Harold Jackson who had great numbers for the time he played, but no one talks about him.

@@Musicvidsetc Joe Montana is the 50th best quarterback ever. See that? I underrated a HoF player. It can be done.

Yeah, he really does

They’re rare, but guys like Lenny Moore and Chuck Foreman had similar careers long before Craig.. He was great, though..

I remember watching the 18-1 patriot season and Welker seemed like the more dependable target, Moss just made the big plays, I agree he should be talked about more

What about that pain in the ass Chrebet for the Jets?

wes welker was not really around when this was filmed

He was a part of two of the best single season offenses of all time

Harry Engel yes, but I’m a Packers fan. He had like 4 straight 1,000 yard seasons with us in the early 80s.

Great Buffalo Bill #Billsmafia

What did you just say again

Damn, beat me to it. #MVPeterman

My QB is a rod

@@CobaltTux hey man i saw you on another nfl vid with the #MVPeterman

Good to be noticed, thanks.

As a Skins fan, Brian Mitchell was not known for taking it to the house but he was definitely the most consistent returner. He'd get a bunch of yards every time and change the course of the game with field position. He could always find the hole.

I believe the main point is that out of all the quarterbacks, how many time you think starr comes up from a poll of let's say 100 people where he is in the top five or ten for best quarterbacks ever.

@@johnsonjoseph1983 He comes up more than most QBs from his era, I think with maybe the exception of Unitas Starr gets mentioned the most, and quite a bit more than the likes of Anderson or Dawson. Starr being on the list is ludicrous in my opinion much less #1.

I'm a Herman Moore fan. I totally agree. I also liked Bennie Blades for the Lions.

I once met Herman Moore at a high school game. I was my school's manager taking stats from on top of the press box, he was there as color commentator. Very cool guy. Note-I was like 5 years old when he retired, and if I saw him play, I wasn't paying attention.

I'm a Cardinals fan, but I will cosign this. Moore gets completely overshadowed by the rest of the great receivers of the 90s. From 94-97 he was the most prolific receiver in the game...and considering the receivers in the league at that point (Rice, Carter, Tim Brown, Reed, Irvin) it says a lot.

Truly a spectacular

And every punter. how about Ray Guy?

That's a solid pick. Used to love me some zach Thomas back in the early 2000s.

Derrick Thomas

Terry Bradshaw had like 12 Hall of Famers on his team

Tippett n Fryar Patriots

James Burgess True tho. Preeminent wide receiver

He still have records today that ain't broken and he played in the 50s lol

Arguably the most dominant wide receiver ever (based on his numbers vs others at the time), and most people never heard of him. I'd say that qualifies for most under-rated player by a mile. I agree.

Agreed. One year he led the league with 75 catches. Second place had 27.

He was also the kicker!

Good one.

Agreed

Nathan Long YES INDEED!!! I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH THAT COLSTON WAS VERY UNDERRATED!!

100% agree. That dude was a TD hawk. And right from the start. 7th round pick from hofstra i beleive. Rookie year had like 10 tds

Devory henderson too

same for fred taylor

Ikr

I agree he is slightly overrated, but maybe not enough so to warrant a spot here. He was a very very good player on a lackluster Rams franchise.

It's stupid they have hall of famers on this list Marvin Harrison len Dawson and Bart Starr

@@anthonytaylor7928how? You can be in the hall and still be underrated…

@@LegendOfKhaos12 no u can't it's the trendy thing for yahoos like u to use that word on RU-vid about everything

well, your not wrong...but...Anthony Munoz, Jackie Slater did get some love.

Btw in the description it said this was aired in 2012

Me too.flyeaglesfly

He is so bad it makes me look good.

After smoking a blunt. But coming home with my brother in Baltimore, he show was the icing on a great cake of hanging and partying. He would invite callers to open beers and party with him and the mic'd up the sound of a can of beer poppin'. Man those were the raw non PC days of sports radio.

He’s in now