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    Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Only those from the SB era qualify, so no Jim Brown, Otto Graham, etc.

    My vote goes to WR Steve Largent, the all-time leader in receptions, yards, and receiving TD's when he retired but never a shot at a ring.
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Largent's a good choice.
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Barry Sanders is the obvious choice.

    But there's a case to be made for a lot of guys.

    Dan Fouts was prolific and was the key to an offense that revolutionized the NFL, and he never made it to a SB. Earl Cambell was an amazing back but could never break past the Steelers. Eric Dickerson never had QB help. Randall Cunningham, Cris Carter, Ladainian Tomlinson.

    The list could go on for a while.

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Dick Butkus
    Deacon Jones
    Merlin Olsen
    Bo Jackson
    Chris Carter
    Derrick Thomas
    Willie Roaf
    Demarcus Ware
    Michael Jordan

    I'm sure there are many others.

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Tony Gonzalez
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Barry Sanders
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Barry Sanders no doubt
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    How about O.J. ?

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Derrick Thomas, LB KC Chiefs --lousy father, but good community service guy and HOF LB
    Jack Kemp, QB he's border line but if we had beaten the Chiefs in the 66 AFL title game he would have been in the first superbowl and that team was a match in so many ways for the Packers

    Randall Cunningham
    Warren Moon
    Heywood Jeffries
    Ernest Givens
    Cortez Kennedy DE Seahawks
    Chris Spielman, LB Lions, Bills, Browns
    Pat Williams DT, Bills Vikings
    Will Shields
    Willie Roaf
    Jerry Ball
    Sterling Sharpe, TE Green Bay if he didn't get injured he would have had even better stats than Shannon

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    What abt no playoffs? Spikes?

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Barry Sanders
    Warren Moon
    Dick Butkus
    Tony Gonzalez
    Dan Fouts
    LaDainian Tomlinson,
    Earl Campbell,
    Ozzie Newsome
    Kellen Winslow Sr
    Deacon Jones
    John Randle

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    I am saying Sanders. Followed by Gonzalez.

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Quote Originally Posted by Suetonius View Post
    Derrick Thomas, LB KC Chiefs --lousy father, but good community service guy and HOF LB
    Jack Kemp, QB he's border line but if we had beaten the Chiefs in the 66 AFL title game he would have been in the first superbowl and that team was a match in so many ways for the Packers

    Randall Cunningham
    Warren Moon
    Heywood Jeffries
    Ernest Givens
    Cortez Kennedy DE Seahawks
    Chris Spielman, LB Lions, Bills, Browns
    Pat Williams DT, Bills Vikings
    Will Shields
    Willie Roaf
    Jerry Ball
    Sterling Sharpe, TE Green Bay if he didn't get injured he would have had even better stats than Shannon
    LMAO at Jefferies and Givens. They were products of the system and Warren Moon.

    Oh, and Sterling Sharpe was a great WR, not TE.

    I also don't know about the '66 Bills. They lost 35-7 at home to the Chiefs who had a great defense in their own right. We were falling off. I do think the '64 team would have matched up well with the Browns and the '65 team with the Packers.
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Hard to argue against Barry Sanders.

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Barry Sanders is head and shoulders on top. O.J., Butkus, Sayers, Spielman, Fouts, Largent, Thomas are others.

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Doug Flutie

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    If I just could pick one - Barry Sanders
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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    John Hannah was pretty good...

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Barry Sanders with Steve Largent a close second

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    Re: Best player that never played in a Super Bowl?

    Warren Moon

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