Darin goes solo to discuss the greatest players to wear the number 8 in NFL history. We had a great list of candidates that really spanned the entire 101 plus years of history of the League and came up with the most substantial. The episode is straight from the Pigskin Dispatch archives of 2021!
NFL Number 8s
The Top 10 NFL Players Who Wore the Number 8 Jersey!
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Top Ten of Jersey 8
Darin goes solo to discuss the greatest players to wear the number 8 in NFL history. We had a great list of candidates that really spanned the entire 101 plus years of history of the League and came up with these ten player as being the most substantial:
- Morten Andersen
- Steve Young
- Larry Wilson
- Troy Aikman
- Ray Guy
- Tommy McDonald
- Lamar Jackson
- Trent Dilfer
- Mark Brunell
- Archie Manning
Honorable mention was :
Kirk Cousins
Matt Hasselbeck
Sam Bradford
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Photo in the banner is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the Magic 8 Ball donated by Christian Heldt.
Of course we also could not have done the above stat research without the assistance of Football-Reference.com and Stathead.com resources.
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