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In 1920, the inaugural season of the NFL, [b] 11 veterans of major-league baseball (including George Halas and Jim Thorpe) became the first athletes to accomplish the feat. Since 1970, only seven athletes have done so, including Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders. Jackson was the first athlete to be selected as an All-Star in both MLB and the NFL.
Most consecutive starts by an offensive lineman: 240 (259 including playoffs), Mick Tingelhoff, 1962–1979; Most consecutive starts by a defensive lineman: 270 (289 including playoffs), Jim Marshall, 1961–1978; Most consecutive starts by a linebacker: 215 (221 including playoffs), London Fletcher, 2000–2013
Some players avoid injury and maintain their high skill level. The following list has the top 250 players who have the most regular season game appearances. All have played at least a dozen seasons in the league. One player, George Blanda [3] played in 4 decades from the 1940s to the 1970s. Blanda played 26 seasons and was 48 years old when he ...
[59] [60] On December 23, 2014, Thomas made NFL history, becoming the only offensive lineman to be named to the Pro Bowl in each of his first eight seasons. [61] He earned First-team All-Pro honors for the fifth time. [62] He was ranked 25th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015. [63]
Quarterback Brett Favre's streak of 297 consecutive games started is the longest all-time. [3] [4] Among defensive players, Jim Marshall's 270 is the longest. [3] Of special note is punter Jeff Feagles, who played in 352 consecutive games which is the longest of all-time for a special teams player. [5] Special teams players are not credited ...
The National Football League 100th Anniversary All-Time Team was voted on by a panel consisting of media members, former players and league personnel in 2019 to honor the greatest players of the first 100 years of the National Football League (NFL).
The most offensive players ever drafted in the 1st Round of an NFL Draft: 19 The current O/U for offensive players drafted in the 1st Round of this year’s Draft: 21.5 👀 pic.twitter.com ...
NFL records include: List of NFL individual records, a list of all-time records for individual NFL players; List of NFL team records, a list of all-time records for teams and franchises; List of NFL team playoff records, a list of records in the NFL playoffs; List of Super Bowl records, a list of records set by teams and players in Super Bowl games