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Tom Brady
Tom Brady was drafted 199th overall in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft, a scouting miss so famous it's now shorthand for the limits of pre-draft evaluation, and went on to become the winningest quarterback in NFL history — 23 seasons, 20 with the New England Patriots and three with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, closing out a career that outlasted several of his own head coaches. Brady won seven Super Bowl championships, six with New England (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII) and one with Tampa Bay (LV), more than any franchise besides the Patriots themselves has won outright. He was named Super Bowl MVP five times, also a record, and won three regular-season NFL MVP awards across a career that stretched from 2001 to 2022. At retirement he held the career records for passing yards (89,214) and passing touchdowns (649), both by wide margins over the next closest quarterback. The signature moment of his career came in Super Bowl LI: New England trailed the Atlanta Falcons 28-3 in the third quarter before Brady led the largest comeback in Super Bowl history, forcing overtime and winning 34-28. Brady briefly retired after the 2021 season, then returned for one more year with Tampa Bay before retiring for good in February 2023 at age 45 — a level of longevity at an elite level that's arguably as remarkable as the championship total itself, and central to why "greatest quarterback ever" conversations rarely get past his name.
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Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor was drafted second overall by the New York Giants in 1981 and, within his first two seasons, had fundamentally changed how the outside linebacker position was played — his combination of speed and power off the edge forced offensive coordinators to rethink pass protection schemes across the entire league, not just for their games against the Giants. Taylor won NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1981, then Defensive Player of the Year three times (1981, 1982, 1986), and in 1986 became NFL MVP — a genuinely rare honor for a defensive player, achieved by only one other player in the modern era. That 1986 season anchored a Giants team that went on to win Super Bowl XXI, with Taylor adding a second ring in Super Bowl XXV. His unofficial career sack total of 132.5 is widely cited as one of the best pass-rushing careers in NFL history, though it comes with an asterisk worth noting: the NFL didn't officially track sacks as a statistic until 1982, in significant part because Taylor's early dominance made the league realize it needed a way to measure what he was doing. Taylor earned 10 Pro Bowl selections across his 13-season career, all with the Giants, and is still commonly cited by coaches and historians as the single most disruptive defensive player the sport has ever produced — a level of individual impact from a non-quarterback position that few players in any sport have matched.
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