NFL's Top 5 Most Influential Players

The other day I was reading over a list of Most Influential Players they had Chad Ochocinco at the top of the list then Reggie Bush and so on. Well it got me to thinking and I have decided to put a list of my own together. Just to see how it matches up with the "experts".

1. Tim Tebow -  Who has done more for football this year? The packers are looking to go undefeated in the regular season and all anyone can talk about is "Tebow Time" or someone suspended for "Tebowing" the school hallway. Tebow is the type of player you love or you love to hate. He isn't your typical NFL QB, he will never throw for 4,000 yards a season. What he does bring to the table is a desire to make himself and the team around him better. He has crossed over from football star to culture icon. That is something that hasn't happened since Dion Sanders was playing.

2. Ndamukong Suh - Dirtiest player in the game...That is a complement most defensive players would love to have. As a defensive lineman you want the player across the line to fear you. There has not been a player in the NFL like this since "Mean" Joe Greene. He isn't a person I would wont my kid to look up to, but if I had a defensive tackle that wanted to know how to play the position Suh would be the first players I would show him.


3.Troy Polamalu - If for nothing else the hair. You didn't see players coming into the league with hair like that until we got Polamalu out of USC (He had to take a pay cut to enter the draft). Now we have the Matthews brothers, Bobby Carpenter, and AJ Hawk all running around trying to get the next Pantene ProV commercial. Polamalu also brought a fearlessness to the position he plays, when he got to the league John Lynch was going out there wasn't someone in the league at the safety position that came to work everyday looking to knockout the opponent. Polamalu put the fear back in recievers coming across the middle and the QBs are always wondering when is that safety blitz coming.

4.Ray Lewis - The king of trash talking. one og the most feared and loved MLBs of all time. This is one person a running back does not want to see filling the hole that has been opened for him or that receiver running that route over the middle. He will go down as one of the all-time greats that played in the NFL. look in HS across America and you will see young men trying to imitate his moves, his ability to sniff out a play, and even his war paint. imitation is the highest sign of respect and there is a lot out there for Ray Lewis.


5. Drew Brees - I know he isn't Aaron Rogers or Tom Brady but let us take a step back and look at the big picture. Lets look at stats: ATT 543 - COMP 385 - Passing yards 4368 - TDs 32. A QB that is only 6'0 tall putting up those type number who would have ever thought that could happen. That is the same reason coaches around the league shunned Doug Flutie back in the day because he wasn't that pro style QB they were looking for. Brees had overcame so many odds in his career that he had to be on this list. He will never have the athletic ability of Cam Newton or the hand signals of Peyton Manning but what he compensates with is the will to win.


Like I said before I'm no expert but in my opinion these are 5 players that have became icons of the sport. They will go down as some of the greatest players to play the game of football.