ESPN Top 25 Players of the 21st Century

[SeanTaylor26]

Ranking the top 25 college football players since 2000

Honey Badger, Heisman winners and vintage stars from The U. Who are the best college football players of the millennium?

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HOW IN THE **** is Sean Taylor not on this list!?!? Ed Reed is 5th and Bryant McKinne is 8th but I was FLOORED to not see Sean Taylor at least in the top 10 if not the top 25 and they don’t even list him in the next 10 either

 

[zx7oppa]

I am also will you on the Sean Taylor being left out, but I am even more shocked that no FSU players are on this list...with all the talking they do you would think that all 25 should be FSU players.

 

[Golsen82]

I am also will you on the Sean Taylor being left out, but I am even more shocked that no FSU players are on this list...with all the talking they do you would think that all 25 should be FSU players.

Not even Anquan Boldin?

 

[hurricaneman]

Good lists don't generate clicks. Bad lists do. Traffic generation 101.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

In case anyone needed more proof of what trash ESPN is, scroll through this list. Yes, Sean Taylor should've been included. But try this on for size. Alabama had only TWO players on the list, despite winning SEVEN natties since 2007. UGa had only one player, David Pollack, who coincidentally is/was a talking head at ESPN. This is yet another example of creating controversy for the sake of creating controversy.

 

[mirvin88]

Yeah…that list is garbage

 

[The canesman]

Who ever made this list hasn’t watched much college football.

 

[Sandman211]

No Dan Morgan?... or did he miss the 21st century cut?

 

[305407cane]

Top lineman and top safety. Not too shabby. Should have the top 2 safeties but whatever. ESPN gonna espn

 

[wdk3618]

I am with ya, but hard to complain when two of the top eight are canes...

Going to be a ton of deserving dudes left out, especially when half the list is seemingly QBs.

 

[AtlAtty]

In case anyone needed more proof of what trash ESPN is, scroll through this list. Yes, Sean Taylor should've been included. But try this on for size. Alabama had only TWO players on the list, despite winning SEVEN natties since 2007. UGa had only one player, David Pollack, who coincidentally is/was a talking head at ESPN. This is yet another example of creating controversy for the sake of creating controversy.

Not only that but now ESPN can run multiple segments of their talking heads discussing the list ESPN created.
This is what happens when there are just too many hours in the day to fill with sports and not enough sports.

 

[nycane]

They had to stretch it to put bama kids in. I don’t think will anderson and Devonta smith should be on there. No one will be talking about them in 10 years.

 

[nycane]

Btw, people might laugh but Ken Dorsey was 38-2 as a starter. He is so overlooked. Its a list about college not nfl

 

[nycane]

Not only that but now ESPN can run multiple segments of their talking heads discussing the list ESPN created.
This is what happens when there are just too many hours in the day to fill with sports and not enough sports.

Neither bama player should have been on that list. They had to stretch it.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

I can’t stomach one hit wonders like Cam, Kyler, and Burrow being on there. It’s a CFB greatest list. Not best draft spot or pro, etc. One great year doesn’t vault you over thousands of other guys who did it at an elite level multiple times.

 

[mcnaire2004]

Btw, people might laugh but Ken Dorsey was 38-2 as a starter. He is so overlooked. Its a list about college not nfl

I used to be so hard into the Dorsey camp. I still miss him. Everytime I watch an old canes games I'm more and more underwhelmed. Definitely good for his day but I think Malik would have looked like a superstar on that team.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

Not only that but now ESPN can run multiple segments of their talking heads discussing the list ESPN created.
This is what happens when there are just too many hours in the day to fill with sports and not enough sports.

100% agree. I somehow deciphered this code about 10-15 years ago while driving home listening to The LeBatard Show. I was getting mad (again) about some mundane, over-hyped topic, when it hit me. LeBatard had Wilbon or some other ESPN dildough on the show and I realized that the topic was a repeat. All these clowns do is run the gauntlet on each other's shows, all in the name of likes and clicks and views. All of a sudden I wasn't angry about the topic; I was angry at myself. It only lasted a moment though as I quickly realized the solution was simple - stop listening to that shee-it. Haven't listed to any of it since.

 

[insaneinthecane]

Stopped reading when I saw baker Mayfair checking in at #2!

 

[ThomasM]

I used to be so hard into the Dorsey camp. I still miss him. Everytime I watch an old canes games I'm more and more underwhelmed. Definitely good for his day but I think Malik would have looked like a superstar on that team.

No, he wouldn't have. Remember, Kenny Kelly was an all world athlete, but couldn't hit the broad side of a Bubba Franks. All that team needed was someone to get the ball into the hands of their weapons. Kelly couldn't do it at a high level. Malik wouldn't have either.

That being said, Dorsey was an average QB. He was smart, but he wasn't a game changer. If you put an NFL prospect on that 2001 team, they don't have any close calls, and whoever that QB is wins the Heisman. Dorsey didn't, because people saw him for what he was. An average QB that could manage the game, with a huge talent advantage over every team he faced.

 

[Canes Legacy]

I try to avoid looking at these offseason lists they have to put out just so they can put something out.