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ESPN: College football's top 25 players of the 21st century

Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:14 pm
Posted by RLDSC FAN
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Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:14 pm
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There are about 26 consensus All-Americans per season. Twenty-four different players have won a Heisman since 2000. The one thing guaranteed about college football is that no one stays too long, and there are always new stars.

Are these all excuses for why it's almost impossible to rank the 25 best college football players of the 2000s? Absolutely. But we're going to do it anyway. It's ranking season, after all.


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1. DT Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska

2. QB Baker Mayfield, Texas Tech/Oklahoma

3. QB Cam Newton, Florida/Auburn

4. QB Vince Young, Texas

5. S Ed Reed, Miami

6. QB Tim Tebow, Florida

7. RB Reggie Bush, USC

8. OT Bryant McKinnie, Miami

9. QB Joe Burrow, Ohio State/LSU

10. WR Larry Fitzgerald, Pittsburgh



rest of the list
Posted by Ssubba
Member since Oct 2014
6895 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:23 pm to
Derrick Henry not even making the honorable mention.
Posted by 632627
LA
Member since Dec 2011
13293 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:25 pm to
Baker at #2 is laughably bad.
Posted by _Hurricane_
Somewhere
Member since Feb 2016
5038 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:27 pm to
I will never fricking understand the Baker hype. He was surrounded by years of Heisman winners better than him and he only made the semi final.
Posted by 632627
LA
Member since Dec 2011
13293 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:29 pm to
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Derrick Henry not even making the honorable mention.


Running backs are almost a dime a dozen and he gets knocked down because of the success of other bama backs (Richardson and Ingram).

Adrian Peterson and Darren McFadden are notable omissions too.
Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:35 pm to
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8. OT Bryant McKinnie, Miami
I mean cmon… he was good and the position is important but cmon…
Posted by BenDover
Member since Jul 2010
5469 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:43 pm to
I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they made that outlandish list because website traffic is down. Or at least that's what I hope because that's laughable.
Posted by poncho villa
DALLAS
Member since Jul 2010
18018 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:44 pm to
I'm sorry but Reggie fricking Bush is better than Baker Mayfield
Posted by BZ504
Texas
Member since Oct 2005
10548 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:53 pm to
Baker Mayfield shouldn’t even be top 10, probably not top 25 either. He was good, but not that great.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
20272 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:02 pm to
This may a bit of my Barner bias, but Baker Mayfield ahead of Cam Newton is crazy.

It's crazy to have him above Tebow and Burrow as well.
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
26213 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:02 pm to
Baker Mayfield stands out for the wrong reasons. He couldn’t hold the jock of the other top 10 QBs.
Posted by Prominentwon
LSU, McNeese St. Fan
Member since Jan 2005
94074 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:04 pm to
1. Bush
2. Young
3. Tebow

Everyone else.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
13659 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:17 pm to
And wait till you see #23.

Seriously. It’s Honey Badger.
Posted by NotoriousFSU
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2008
10764 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:20 pm to
No Johnny Manziel. List is shite.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
66506 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:55 pm to
When I saw Baker Mayfield ranked above Reggie Bush I spit out my drink and laughed. Who the hell came up with this ranking?
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
38498 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 6:06 pm to
The list itself wasn’t bad. The order was shite and was inconsistent
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
38498 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 6:06 pm to
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Derrick Henry not even making the honorable mention.


Good
Posted by PP7 for heisman
New Orleans
Member since Feb 2011
6027 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 7:15 pm to
Not enough DBs.

Patrick Peterson deserves to be on that list. Best man corner in college football in the last 25 years.
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
38068 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 7:34 pm to
Suh was insane in college but I’m not sure about that #1 spot.
Posted by nvasil1
Hellinois
Member since Oct 2009
16372 posts
Posted on 7/29/24 at 7:35 pm to
Baker shouldn't be that high, but I think he's getting shite on too much in this thread.

He was Big XII freshman offensive POY as a walk-on at Tech, then he transferred to OU without having a scholarship waiting for him, and finished 4th, 3rd, and 1st in Heisman voting in his three seasons with the Sooners.

The guy overachieved with his talent level more than anyone else on the list. He was a great college player.
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