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Hmm trying to get a rise out of people with that comment eh

Were it possible to separate the past from the present (it's not), I would say OJ. Watching him run through the vaunted Steel Curtain for some ridiculous yardage (275-ish?) will always stick with me. He would sort of glide for a moment, then plant a foot and blow by people, and was extremely fast in his prime.

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Terrell Davis is my favorite out of the ones who were playing when I was old enough to truly appreciate their play (mid-90s onward). Loved watching Edge, Portis, and Tomlinson do their thing as well.

Going back further into the guys I've watched some film of but have fuzzy or no memory of watching, I might have to give it to Walter Payton. I'm not sure if any player ran with so much sheer determination and force of will, it's just impossible not to respect his mentality as a runner. Jim Brown had quite a bit of that in him, too, but he just physically outmatched all the guys he played against and made it look entrirely too easy (Sanders was somewhat the same way with his elusiveness).

Perhaps surprisingly, I'm not a very big Riggo fan. He made a name for himself with some absurdly good playoff games but, as memorable as those performances were, his career was relatively lackluster and I'm rather convinced that the legend is much greater than the man himself. In a lot of ways, he's the RB equivalent of Namath (grating personality to boot).

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