CBS Sports published a list of the best player to wear each number. I've republished several of these lists before. It's always interesting to see who gets left off. For those I added a question mark. Several obvious mistakes.
00. Jim Otto 1973
0. no George Plimpton?
1. Warren Moon. Not Curly Lambeau or Fritz Pollard?
2. Matt Ryan. Not Charlie Trippi?
3. Russell Wilson. Not Bronco Nagurski?
4. Brett Favre QB HOF
5. Donovan McNabb. Not Paul Hornung?
6. Jay Cutler. Not Kevin Butler?
7. John Elway. Not Mel Hein?
8. Steve Young. No Larry Wilson?
9. Drew Brees 2004. Not Ray Guy?
10. Fran Tarkenton beat out Eli
11. Larry Fitzgerald. Not Norm Van Brocklin?
12. Tom Brady. Rodgers ahead of Staubach & Bradshaw?
13. Dan Marino
14. Dan Fouts. Not Don Hutson? Bad choice.
15. Bart Starr 1966 MVP
16. Joe Montana beat Dawson and Blanda (Frank Gifford?)
17. Philip Rivers 2004. Not Meredith, Carmichael, or Kilmer?
18. Peyton Manning 1998
19. Johnny Unitas bested Alworth
20. Barry Sanders beat B Dawkins, L Barney, M Renfroe, E Reed
21. Deion Sanders beat Tomlinson and Eric Allen
22. Emmitt Smith. No Bobby Layne?
23. Troy Vincent. No Mike Wagner?
24. Champ Bailey. Willie Brown?
25. Fred Biletnikoff SB 11 MVP
26. Rod Woodson 1987
27. Steve Atwater. Ken Houston?
28. Darrell Green. Not Marshall Faulk?
29. Eric Dickerson RB beat out Harold Jackson
30. Terrell Davis RB. Clarke Hinkle?
31. Donnie Shell DB. No Jim Taylor?
32. Jim Brown RB beat M Allen, Edgerrin, & Franco
33. Tony Dorsett RB – not Sammy Baugh?
34. Walter Payton RB 1977 MVP
35. Aeneas Williams DB. John Henry Johnson?
36. Jerome Bettis RB beat LeRoy Butler
37. Jimmy Johnson DB. Not Doak Walker?
38. Eugene Daniel DB. Not Roland James?
39. Larry Csonka RB
40. Gale Sayers RB beat Bobby Boyd
41. Eugene Robinson DB 1985. Not Tom Matte?
42. Ronnie Lott DB. Not Sid Luckman?
43. Troy Polamalu DB 2003
44. Dick LeBeau DB. Floyd Little?
45. Gary Fencik DB. Better than Emlen Tunnell? No way.
46. Tim McDonald DB. Todd Christensen?
47. Mel Blount CB
48. Stephen Davis RB 1996. Les Richter?
49. Dennis Smith DB. Not Bobby Mitchell?
50. Mike Singletary LB 1985 2xDPOY HOF
51. Dick Butkus 1965 HOF 2xDPOY
52. Ray Lewis LB 2xDPOY HOF
53. Mick Tingelhoff C 1962 HOF
54. Randy White DT SB 12 MVP beat Z Thomas, Urlacher
55. Junior Seau LB beat Derrick Brooks
56. Lawrence Taylor LB 1986 MVP
57. Rickey Jackson LB HOF. No Dwight Stephenson?
58. Jack Lambert LB HOF DPOY
59. Jack Ham LB HOF
60. Larry Grantham. Not Chuck Bednarik?
61. Nate Newton G 6 PB 2xAP. Not Bill George?
62. Jim Langer G 1972 6xAP
63. Gene Upshaw G 1967 HOF beat Jeff Saturday
64. Randall McDaniel G HOF. Jerry Kramer?
65. Tom Mack OL 1966 HOF 11 PB 8xAP
66. Larry Little. Nitschke? Bulldog Turner?
67. Bob Kuechenberg G 1972. Art Still?
68. Will Shields G 12xPB HOF. LC Greenwood?
69. Jared Allen DE. Will Wolford?
70. Logan Mankins G 7xPB over Sam Huff?
71. Walter Jones OT. Not Alex Karras?
72. Ed Too Tall Jones DE
73. John Hannah G beat L Allen & Joe Thomas
74. Bruce Matthews beat Merlin Olsen & Bob Lilly?
75. Mean Joe Greene DT. Not Deacon Jones?
76. Orlando Pace OT 1997. Not Lou Groza?
77. Willie Roaf OT. Not Red Grange?
78. Anthony Munoz OT HOF bested Bruce Smith
79. Ray Childress DT 1985. Not Roosevelt Brown?
80. Jerry Rice WR HOF
81. Carl Eller DE 1970 beat out Terrell Owens
82. Raymond Berry WR 1959 HOF
83. Ted Hendricks DE 1975 HOF
84. Randy Moss WR HOF
85. Jack Youngblood DE HOF
86. Buck Buchanan DT 1970 HOF
87. Reggie Wayne. Not Willie Davis, Dave Casper, Claude Humphrey?
88. Alan Page DT 1971 MVP HOF. John Mackey?
89. Steve Smith over Marchetti, Ditka, Otis Taylor?
90. Julius Peppers DE
91. Kevin Greene LB HOF
92. Reggie White DE HOF
93. John Randle DT HOF
94. DeMarcus Ware LB 2005
95. Richard Dent DE 1985 HOF
96. Cortez Kennedy DT 1992 DPOY
97. La'Roi Glover DL 6xPB. Not Cornelius Bennett?
98. Jessie Armstead LB beat out Casey Hampton
99. Warren Sapp DT edged J Taylor & A Donald
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