10 Best Baby-Faced Athletes in Sports

It takes grown men to accomplish some of the things that this group of athletes has accomplished. Sometimes these grown men appear to look 10 years younger than the competition, yet are some of the best at what they do.  

Here is a carefully selected list of some of the best players who may never see a single wrinkle on their foreheads.  

Matt Stafford, 24

Stafford has the distinction of being the best quarterback with the softest features in the NFL.  2011 was his (as well as the Detroit Lions') breakout season, throwing for more than 5,000 yards and 41 touchdowns.  

Stafford's play has resurrected the long-dormant Lions franchise and has made them one of the best young teams in the league. 

You can just see the youth on Stafford's face. Maybe cutting the locks will add some age? Or probably just make him look like Jay Cutler.  

Matt Cain, 28

They look like two peas in a pod, don't they? I wonder when nap time is at the Cain household?

Cain has ridden his baby-faced fame and good fortune all the way to a San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series win. 

Cain and Tim Lincecum form the MLB's best pitching duo that look like freshmen in high school.  

Ricky Rubio, 21

Where to begin with Ricky Rubio. Is he the Justin Bieber of the NBA? He definitely had that young pop-star look when he was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves.  

He has since let his game do the talking, becoming one of the best rookie point guards in the league, averaging 11.5 points and 8.4 assists per game.  

Rubio is a prime example of how the beard technique can easily rid the face of any baby similarities.  

Gordon Hayward, 21

Hayward's boyish looks didn't keep him from becoming one of the best mid-major players in recent memory at Butler.

He was a buzzer-beater away from beating Duke for the national championship, who were coincidentally led by another baby-faced baller in Kyle Singler.  

Hayward now spends his time with the Utah Jazz, averaging a steady 9.5 points per game on a good, young team.  

Buster Posey, 24

The emerging Giants catcher looks like he just stepped off of a school bus and onto the baseball diamond.

Posey is only 24 and rounds out a strong pitcher-catcher relationship of baby-faced San Francisco Giants (you could also throw in Tim Lincecum).

Let's all hope Posey is able to recover from a broken leg he suffered last season and return as one of the best young catchers in the game.  

Glen Davis, 26

The photo says it all.  

Glen "Big Baby" Davis, formerly of LSU and now with the Orlando Magic, is most likely leading the NBA in crying to officials. Much like babies lead the world in crying all the time.  

Here are some of Big Baby's infantile antics. Here is one more. 

Adrian Peterson, 26

Peterson is surely a man from the neck down, one who has ran for more than 6,700 yards and 64 touchdowns in his career with the Minnesota Vikings.  

However, something about his face just reminds me of a Gerber Baby.   

All jokes aside, let's hope Peterson can bounce back from a torn ACL and have a good year in 2012.

Stephen Curry, 23

What is it with baby-faced guys who had huge talent at small schools in college and have now taken their game to the NBA? Maybe their childish appearances scared off big schools during the recruiting process.  

Curry has a silky shot, though, and is one of the brightest young players in the league for the Golden State Warriors. 

Maybe increasing the amount of facial hair will add years to his looks?  

Rory McIlroy, 22

McIlroy is one of golf's most exciting young players. He won the 2011 U.S. Open at the age of 22 while still managing to look like he could get kicked out of a PG-13 movie.  

I'm sure McIlroy's looks will age as he does, and his golf game will become consistently better as well.

Keep an eye out for McIlroy during the Masters this April. I've got a good feeling.   

Colt McCoy, 25

The pout face during the national championship loss to Alabama shows his inner urge to cry like an infant.

McCoy is an honorable mention on this list, simply because he is baby faced but hasn't had quite a successful career in the NFL so far.  

Although his time as the Cleveland Browns starter may be coming to an end, McCoy is still one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football.