All Time NFL Team Draft: Pick Your Player

If a team could add any player from its history to its current roster who would it be?

Not the franchises' All Time Best player necessarily but the player that could help the current roster most if plucked from the sea of time, say by a Hadron Collider Anomaly or a Hot Tub Time Machine, and placed on the current club. 

Who would it be?

And could he play today?

Note:Teams are traced, as best as possible, to the original cities via team name and history. 

Thus the St Louis Rams draw from the LA Rams, where they soon might be again, and the Arizona Cardinals draw from the St Louis Cardinals and so forth.

1] St Louis/LA Rams- Deacon Jones DE 

The Rams are a bad ball club with plenty of glaring holes but two premium positions with problems are quarterback and pass rusher.

Is it Norm Van Brocklin or Kurt Warner?

Or skip the signal caller and take the head slapper defensive end Deacon Jones?

Deacon would have to rein in the roughness, head slaps are frowned upon today, but at 6'5 272 pounds he still be force in today's game.

The Dutchman Van Brocklin will be angry about this pick and it's a toss up.

2] Detroit Lions- Barry Sanders RB

It would be a joy to subject today's over protected primma donna perfumed prince's at wide receiver to the ravages of a Night Train Neck Tie delivered via Night Train Lane but Roger Goodell would likely not only suspend Lane but also try to have him arrested if he was playing today.

It's an offensive based game today and Barry Sanders sends fans to the ticket booth and gives the lame Lions a potent offense.

Somewhere Bobby Layne is smashing a whiskey glass and screams why not me, moron?

3] Tampa Bay Buccaneers- Lee Roy Selman DE   

An easy one on a team with tons of holes take the best player in its history, and one of the leagues best two or three defensive ends ever, and plug him in.

And tell him to bring his renowned ribs.

4] Washington Redskins- Sammy Baugh QB, P, S

Slinging Sammy Baugh was perhaps the greatest player in NFL history and Snyder will have to pay him the franchise price at three positions.

The Redskins really could use lineman Joe Jacoby and new minted hall of famer Russ Grimm also.

Darrell Green would be nice also.

The Skins have been savaged by Snyder at so many spots and Slinging Sammy filled three at once.

5] Kansas City Chiefs -Wille Lanier LB

The Chiefs have been ravaged by years of poor player picking.

Lanier was a 6'1 245 ponder who would play today as well as he did on the old great Chief teams.

6] Seattle Seahawks- Steve Largent WR

The Seahawks have spent million trying to find a wide out since Steve sped out of town.

7] Cleveland Browns - Jim Brown RB

Who else?

Otto Graham? Okay if you insist.

8] Oakland Raiders-Art Shell OT

Another team with a great past reduced to a mostly sorry roster.

Snake Stabler is tempting but a signal caller, no matter how slick, has no chance without a left tackle. 

9] Buffalo Bills- Jim Kelly RB

How does one turn down the Juice O.J. Simpson in his old football incarnation?

The Bills have some spark at running back but at quarterback the battery is dead.

And Ralph Wilson loves Kelly.

10] Jacksonville Jaguars- Tony Boselli OT

A short term franchise with out much history the Jags could use a jolt at left tackle.

11] Denver Broncos- John Elway QB

Bye bye to the Brady Quinn and Kyle Orton drama.

The Broncos have not been the same since Elway left town.

And this time around defenders have to be careful how they touch him.

12] Miami Dolphins- Dan Marino QB

The league has become a game of pitch and catch and protect the prized players.

Marino and his quarterback ilk would thrive in today's game.

13] San Francisco Forty Niners -Joe Montana QB

What if Cool Joe was playing in today's game where he could not be tapped much less tackled hard and his wide outs could not be touched?

Montana regularly faced some of the most fearsome defenses in league history, the eighties Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and Washington Redskins, and they unloaded on him.

In today's game those hard hitting defenses of the eighties would be defanged and declawed and Cool Joe would be even more dominant.

14] Seattle - Kenny Easley S

Seattle's second pick is a defender to revitalize a dormant defense though running back Curt Warner or a young Walter Jones would be tempting.

15] New York Giants- Lawrence Taylor LB

LT would be just as physically dominating in today's game and he would do for the current Giants what he did for the Bill Parcell's ones; take the team to another level.

16] Tennessee Titans/Houston Oilers -  Earl Campbell RB

Big Earl would be a beast to bring down today.

17] San Francisco Forty Niners - Jerry Rice WR

In the new pass protected league Montana to Rice might bring the Niners right back to the Bowl.

18] Pittsburgh Steelers- Joe Greene DT

The Steelers need defense and Mean Joe was the key rung in the Steel Curtain.

Either Jack, Lambert or Ham, would do too but Mean Joe drew the double team.

19] Atlanta Falcons - Tommy Nobis LB

The first player ever selected by the Atlanta Falcons would still be a hit, and deliver the hits, today.

How come he isn't in the Hall of Fame?

20] Houston Texans- Dunta Robinson CB

The 2005 version of Robinson would help this struggling team over the hump.

Well maybe not but who else is out there?

21] Cincinnati Bengals- Anthony Munoz OT

The Bengals broke under the Jets play off pressure and need offensive line help.

Its doubtful though the Brown family would pay the amount of money Munoz would bring in today's market.

22] New England Patriots- Mike Haynes CB

Tom Brady would beg Bill Belichick for guard John Hannah but the Pats need defense.

23] Green Bay Packers - Paul Hornung RB/K

The Golden Boy would be a fantasy football monster running, receiving, and kicking for points.

Hornung recently was asked by Sporting News Radio if he could play today and maintain his old swinging sixties lifestyle.

The Golden Boy was confident he could get his mojo working today.

"Oh hell you could. You’re in such good shape, are you crazy? When you’re 24-years-old, you weigh 215 pounds, you can work out every day of your life, you could make love to five girls a week and play 44 games of football. Hell.”

24] Philadelphia Eagles - Reggie White DE

The Eagles's front four has been getting bulldozed by the Dallas big boys and Reggie had the kind of country strength that never goes out of style.

25] Baltimore Ravens -Jonathan Ogden OT

Next time his name is called it will be as a first ballot hall of famer.

26] Arizona Cardinals- Kurt Warner QB

This is not an attempt to create another Favrenstein  Media Monster. Stay retired.

27] Dallas Cowboys- Roger Staubach QB

Tony Romo isn't Staubach or Troy Aikman.

Romo is not even Danny White or Dandy Don Meredith.

Maybe Romo is more Gary Hogeboom check out Survivor 2022 to see if Romo is on the island.

DT Bob Lilly is tempting here though.

28] San Diego Chargers- Lance Alworth WR

Today's game is all about the offense and so was the old AFL.

29] New York Jets- Joe Namath QB

Bear Bryant called him the best athlete he ever coached. Bill Walsh said he was the one quarterback he would build his team around if he could.

Not bad references.

Imagine what Namath would do in the pocket today if the brutalization he endured at the hands of defenders was outlawed?

30] Minnesota Vikings- Fran Tarkenton QB

Having Fran would finish the Favre drama forever.

Which might be a could thing for Fran and Favre for Fran sounds like he wants to challenge Favre to a duel on a southern sandbar.

Viking DT Alan Page might make the Williams wall get in shape and teach them the art of the inside pass rush.

31] Indianapolis Colts- Lenny Moore RB/WR/KR

No Johnny U? Not if the goal is to fill current Colt holes.

No Marshall Faulk?

Moore was Faulk before Faulk was born except he played flanker and sometimes special teams.

Moore would be another fantasy football machine.

32] New Orleans Saints- Ricky Jackson LB

Saints first hall of fame player would have an impact on the Saint's defense today.

Though DE Doug Atkins celebrating a Saint Super Bowl on Bourbon street would be a sight.

No first round picks.

Chicago Bears- Dick Butkus LB

Don't believe the doubters who say Butkus could not play today because the big man could play the pass. The MLB recorded 22 interceptions in his career.

Don Shula once said he would play anyone with eleven Butkus'.

The Bears biggest problem since Lovie Smith relived Ron Rivera after the Bears' Super Bowl run has been the Bear defense.

DT Dan Hampton would instantly upgrade these Bears also.

Carolina Panthers - DE Julius Peppers

Wait where did he go? Can he bring Kris Jenkins back also?

Feel free to fire away with your picks.

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