Category:NFL Players

From BR Bullpen

This category lists mostly players who played in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Also included are NFL players known for significant roles in baseball history (ex. Wally Yonamine) or prominent NFL players who appeared in pro baseball (ex. John Elway)

Two Heisman Trophy winners have gone on to play MLB: Vic Janowicz, who won in 1950, and Bo Jackson (1985). Six former MLB players have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Red Badgro, Paddy Driscoll, George Halas, Ernie Nevers, Ace Parker and Jim Thorpe.

In contrast, no NFL player has been elected to the MLB Hall of Fame, though Yonamine is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. The Win Shares method suggests that Brian Jordan has had by far the most successful MLB career of any NFL player.

Aaron Pointer, although never an NFL player, was a major league ballplayer who later worked many years with the NFL, culminating in years as the head linesman.

[edit] Further Reading

• Brian McKenna: "Professional Baseball and Football: A Close Relationship", in The National Pastime - A Review of Baseball History, Society for American Baseball Research, Cleveland, OH, number 26 (May, 2006), pp. 26-32.