re: The Greatest College Football Player from Every State According to 247Sports

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Reggie White was better than Ed (Too Tall) Jones?

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Yeah. A lot better.

"The 1983 team captain drew little publicity until the sixth game of his senior year. By then, his domination was evident. He collected 100 tackles on the season, 72 of them unassisted, and set the school-record with 15 sacks for the year. He had a sack in every game but two and dropped the quarterback four times against The Citadel, another school record."

You know what's really interesting about Reggie White's senior stats?

He played most of the year as a left Defensive End in a 3-4 defense (though I think they had some four man pass rushing packages).

No quibble with him being the best from Tennessee. But Peyton Manning wasn't the best ever qb from Louisiana in college (or the pros), let alone best ever. There have been a ton of great college players from Louisiana.

Not buying Grant Wistrom from Missouri either. Nor A.J. Green from South Carolina.

It's like whoever made this list just confined himself to people he had heard of from the state in question, and didn't do any research.

Sammy Baugh is spot on from Texas though. Let alone as a qb, I think he still holds pro punting records.