OT- Greatest CFB Player you ever watched?
Just trying to lighten the mood after the recent recruiting decommits, so who is the best player you have ever seen play college football? It can be from any team, conference position.
Couple quick rules:
1. Must have watched them play at least once (Doesn't have to be in person).
2. Must be centered around actual on field play. This is just to prevent people from saying "Kelly Baraka, but man he couldn't stop smoking weed"
My choice: Cam Newton. I wasn't old enough to watch Woodson (Who I think will garner a lot of votes here). Dude absolutely annhiliated everyone in his path during that season at Auburn. Just one of the most unstoppable players ever. Big moment for me is when he trucked Patrick Peterson and carried him 30 yards in to the endzone. Newton was also the only player on the offense of the 2011 Championship team to play in the NFL. Just an otherwordly player.
August 24th, 2016 at 6:05 AM ^
Except for that time we held him completely out of the end zone . . . and still lost on field goals.
*sigh*
August 24th, 2016 at 7:34 AM ^
Charles Woodson.
August 24th, 2016 at 10:51 AM ^
August 24th, 2016 at 8:03 AM ^
...and only...
August 24th, 2016 at 10:58 AM ^
This is the answer for me, as well. I've never seen anyone who compared at all to Sanders. Can't really say that about anyone else that I've seen.
August 24th, 2016 at 8:55 AM ^
With out a doubt Barry sanders.
August 24th, 2016 at 9:38 AM ^
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August 24th, 2016 at 9:40 AM ^
Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker, Charles Woodson guys who could just dominate a game.
August 24th, 2016 at 9:48 AM ^
Desmond Howard. He is strangely overlooked when it comes to making lists of Michigan's all-time greats but he was definitely one of them. I saw Charles Woodson play twice his freshman year, so I kinda can't count him. Howard was every bit as dominant in his Heisman year as anyone that I have ever seen in person. Totally uncoverable without triple coverage. Even against Florida State he caught a couple of TDs and broke a couple of punt returns. Dude was incredible. Nobody in the history of college football has ever made as many acrobatic catches as this guy. If you overthrew him by five feet then he dove for it. If you threw it up into double coverage then he outjumped both guys for it. If you threw a fade over the wrong shoulder then he spun around in the air for it. He was like Denard Robinson in his ability to read blocks and change direction without slowing down, which is why he was such a dangerous return man. He started the 1991 season with eight consecutive games in which he scored 2 TDs.
Runners-up: Tyrone Wheatley, Tim Biakabutuka, and Ki-Jana Carter
August 24th, 2016 at 10:19 AM ^
A Train! I loved watching him run. He was already a demigod-hero when I came to campus my freshman year in 2000 and then he had a great senior season. He was fun to watch - a big, bruising back with ballerina feet.
August 24th, 2016 at 10:36 AM ^
No one really compared to Reggie Bush for me. I also really enjoyed watching stick Ricky WIlliams.
August 24th, 2016 at 10:37 AM ^
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August 24th, 2016 at 10:37 AM ^
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August 24th, 2016 at 10:55 AM ^
Barry Sanders. Woodson, Vick, Vince Young all came to mind, but still Barry Sanders.
August 24th, 2016 at 10:59 AM ^
Michigan - Charles Woodson
College football - Barry Sanders
August 24th, 2016 at 3:03 PM ^
I don't know if he's the greatest but my favorite non-UM player was Randle El. Appointment television at 12:00 on ESPN. As for those Indiana teams, they weren't that bad. They just stunk on defense. His senior year they killed Wisconsin at Wisconsin and won at MSU and were 4-4 in the Big Ten. His sophomore year Michigan won at Indiana, 34-31.
Some of his highlights are here and they are sick. It's a must watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghrPmBmek2A
August 25th, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^
Christian McCaffrey.
Did anyone watch the Rose Bowl last year? That was one of the greatest individual offensive performances I have ever seen in a truly big game, and I have been a college football fan for over fifty years. And then look at his stat sheet for the entire 2015 season...just ridiculous. Yes, Stanford had a great OL last year, and yes, Alabama's RB won the Heisman (East Coast/SEC bias, IMO), but McCaffrey destroyed it all year long in all three phases of play: RB, receiving, and return man.