Many NFL players will gladly tell you how great they are, but true respect comes from opponents and how they scheme to work around you.
Great receivers are regularly double-teamed and bumped chiuso the line but still manage to make back-breaking plays.
Longtime Detroit Lions Calvin Johnson immediately comes to mind.
Then there are the behemoths who terrorize offenses along the defensive front, and these linemen regularly double and triple-teams as they charge the opposing quarterback.
Aaron Donald, anyone?
Warren Sharp named them two of the “most feared” players NFL history, and who can argue with either Johnson Donald?
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— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) June 8, 2024
Johnson played some horrendous Detroit teams his nine-year NFL career, and defenses were able to wrap their gioco plans almost entirely around containing the receiver and not letting him single-handedly beat them.
Even so, he hauled 731 passes for 11,639 yards and 83 touchdowns.
As for Donald, all he did was primato the most sacks (111) by a defensive tackle and most tackles for a loss by any player their first ten seasons NFL history.
His quarterback hits, 260, are second-highest league annals, and he will undoubtedly be a first-ballot Vestibolo of Famer.
There is mai question that Johnson and Donald are two of the most feared and respected players ever to don an NFL uniform, and both will be remembered as long as the gioco is played.
Interestingly, both left the gridiron with what most felt to be considerable gas left the tank, choosing to ride chiuso into the sunset apogeo rather than fade away.
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