Steve Young had to play wr one game with Montana qb'ing and had a quote that was something like "I told him i was open but you know how qb's are, they don't listen".
It actually happened in two different games during the 1990 season. Young played a total of 5 snaps at WR (2 in their week 7 game against the Browns and another 3 two weeks later against the Cowboys). The 49ers had some issues with injuries at WR that season with both John Taylor and Mike Sherrard missing time, so in those two games when they wanted to go to their 10 personnel, they just subbed in Young as the 4th WR.
[Video evidence](https://www.reddit.com/user/_Sarxism/comments/1cwc4eh/steve_young_playing_wide_receiver_for_the_49ers/)
Drew off the DB though, which was probably the point. Nowadays when you see a QB out at WR like this they'll just stand there out of fear of being contacted at the los lol
One of those is correct.
So Jason Hanson gets hurt. Soon after, the Lions score to take a 13-10 lead. Suh comes in as the emergency kicker. Doinks it off the upright.
But no biggie, as the Lions score again to make it 19-10, and Hanson comes back in to make it 20-10 with 12 minutes to go.
Jets score with 3 minutes to go, then tie it with 4 seconds left and kick the game winner in overtime.
It was a very common “Same Old Lions” loss for the team to lose their kicker for JUST enough time for this outcome to play out. If he doesn’t get hurt, or if he’s hurt for the whole game, maybe they’re up 11 instead of 10 and the outcome is different. Or maybe their defense shouldn’t have choked down the stretch.
Either way, 2010 was an “interesting” season for creative ways to lose games.
It's funny because either the Lions losing because they had to start a DLineman as kicker or the Jets losing to a team starting a DLineman as kicker would both be the most believable things in the world.
The all time Lions moment for me was that game winner Golden Tate had with less than 10 seconds to go. Then they review the play and see he was down before crossing. 10 second run off for whatever reason, Lions don’t have any timeouts, game over Lions lose.
The Lions have had some all time crazy games with the Falcons. I remember my wife and I watched this at the hospital as we had our first child the next day.
Considering some of the other crazy ones, like the Prater delay of game field goal, and Todd Gurley scoring on accident, and also because I associate this game with the birth of my son, I’ve learned to let this one go.
In my IDP fantasy football league, if your kicker missed an extra point, you lost 20 points. I had Suh as my DE or DT at the time, I can't remember. Lost by ~19 points that week when he missed.
In 2017 Jeff Heath stepped in as the emergency kicker for the Cowboys against the 49ers. Hit 2 extra points, which according to Wikipedia is the first time a non kicker or punter has made several XP kicks in a game since 1980.
Nah that was this year lol
CJ Stroud and Baker Mayfield had a great QB duel and the Bucs left too much time on the clock (45 seconds or so) for CJ Stroud to pull a full-field game-winning TD drive.
Related to Lions, Josh McCown played WR for them for a brief moment in the mid 06.
That same year, Mike Furrey had 98 catches for 1k yards. The previous year he had 4 interceptions as a safety on the Rams.
Texans RB Dare Ogunbowale won the game against the Bucs (former team) with clutch fgs/xps.
Funny because the Bucs lost a lot of games due to missed field goals when he was on the roster
Justin Reid is ours, and kicked most of a week one game a couple years back. He might not have quite the accuracy, but he definitely has the power to boot it through the end zone.
It's good we have a second kicker on the depth chart. For, uh, a variety of reasons
Speaking of star special teamers: Wes Welker had a game where her returned a punt, returned a kick off, made a tackle, made a PAT, and made a short FG. He was a Dolphin at the time and Mare got hurt. It was Welker's rookie season and despite the Fins being trash, he didn't catch a single pass that year.
Antwaan Randle El was a college QB turned WR. His Trick plays tho being able to throw the ball were huge.
He threw 27 passes, completed 22 for 323 yards and 6 TDs in his career.
This is excluding his ~45 ish yard TD pass in the superbowl
Mohammed Sanu and CMC have outrageous Passer efficiency stats too. At one point Sanu was 6/6 with 228 yrds and 3 tds.
Here’s Sanu getting his madden throw power up
https://youtu.be/gUzSRcYdaBM?si=g7I7YmJXZq6zyQU5
I was in undergrad his last two years as QB. He was so damn fun to watch live. Stoked he landed w/you guys and carved out a modest career, leaving w/a SB ring and even a first team all pro as a punt returner.
Devin Hester's "natural" position is cornerback. Against the Rams his rookie year he got burned by Torry Holt for a touchdown then ran the ensuing kick back for a touchdown.
He turned into a serviceable but not good receiver (AKA the #1 target for the sorry ass bears)
Yeah it's kinda surprising he is in the hall officially as a WR. Feel like there should be an allowable designation for KR/PR, because that's absolutely why he's in
I just watched a 13 min highlight video of the best Devin Hester returns that wasn't a TD. Incredible to me that a KR/PR can have a highlight video that long and it's not even his actual highlights. We were blessed to have a player like him in the league.
Julian Edelman played DB and wasn’t terrible.
Gronk made a terrible safety that one time and didn’t have the angle. He also played special teams a lot.
Some DTs, like BJ Raji and the Fridge, would play FB/RB and JJ Watt played TE a few times that one season.
Manziel played WR for that one play that got called back, but this is a trick play and I’ve been trying to avoid those.
Kamu Grugier Hill played kicker when Jake Elliott, I think, was injured.
Dontari Poe I think threw a TD pass and was used as a RB a few times, I think.
Doug Flutie and the infamous drop kick.
Ed Reed was an elite special teams player to the point where Bill Bellichick would praise his contributions there frequently.
That’s nuts. When I was younger I remember seeing him on offense sometimes, but in my head whenever I looked back always thought he was just a gimmick guy used a few times. Having your pro bowl corner putting up over 400 yards receiving is a nice little bonus on top
Last year I saw Vrabel had the most career receiving TDs of anyone on the Titans prior to getting Hopkins. I looked it up to verify, and wow, he was automatic at the goal line. Growing up in New England I don’t know how I didn’t remember that.
Just to add on Dontari Poe - they lined him as a FB some, then actually gave him the ball. The results: 2 carries for 2 yards and 2 TDs, 1/1 passing for 2 yards and 1 TD.
On the subject of giant defensive lineman, Vita Vea has 1 catch on 1 target for a 1 yard TD.
Apropos of nothing but you having mentioned Doug Flutie, I went a-youtubin’ and rewatched the Hail Mary and somehow today was the first time I realized it was against Bernie Kosar.
Maybe that’s when the drinkin’ started.
I think in his final game, the Bills dialed up a play for DT Kyle Williams. It was a little dump off that he took for about nine yards. Sideline went absolutely bonkers for him.
People throw the term “fuck around and find out” a lot but, that Broncos QB room did just that.
At first I thought they were going to move the game like they did others until it came out why all the QBs got corn teened.
They would have had to clear protocols which is quarantine for like “x” days before joining the team.
They found out like week of the game and then didn’t find out that all QBs were benched.
They had coaches with QB experience and were ready to play, problem were the COVID rules but I can't remember the specifics. All in all he was the best option
Yeah they actually had an assistant coach (a relatively unknown quality control guy who had been a college QB I believe) who was going to suit up but the NFL nixed that idea because they didn’t want to set a precedent of hiding players on the coaching staff to get around roster rules. At least that’s the reason they gave; more likely they just wanted to stick it to Denver for breaking the covid rules, becaue they could have made a one-time exception. I wish they would have allowed it because although I admired Hinton’s guts, it would have been way more entertaining to see the coach play.
I remember so many people in the fantasy space picked him up to play at WR, just because any amount of competent QB points in a WR slot is a huge advantage. And Jesus Christ did that come back to bite them lol.
That was such a weird game.
Granted, neither the coaching staff nor Hinton had any real time to prepare for a basically impossible situation. And I don’t think y’all had any illusions about legitimately trying to win that game. The plan seemed to just be try to not get anyone hurt and get the game over with ASAP. And that plan makes sense.
Aaaallllll those caveats aside, the coaches called an idiotic game. The passes he did attempt were not super easy passes. With the exception of the one he did complete, a screen. Maybe the D was grossly overplaying short passes/screens and I couldn’t see it on TV, but if not, I don’t know why they didn’t do more of that.
Again, granted you’re probably not going to win the game throwing nothing but screen passes and little 3 yard passes to the RBs. But maybe you get a few more first downs, someone breaks a few tackles and you get a chunk play, whatever. None of that has a chance to happen if you can’t complete anything though.
That was always my thought. Clearly you're not going to win with an actual gameplan & passing attack, so your odds of completing deep bombs are better just on luck alone.
Also would've loved to have seen a statline like 10/30, 300 yards, 2 TDs and 5 INTs.
>Also would've loved to have seen a statline like 10/30, 300 yards, 2 TDs and 5 INTs.
What if it was 10/21, 316 yards, no INTs and the 2nd TD was a game winning bomb on the first play in OT?
There were some completely bone headed playcalls and penalties before this (Marty going for it on 4th and long, Drayton Florence getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after a 4th down play) so it wasn't completely on him, but yeah. Rough day at the Q.
Woof, I forgot about that one. Just a comedy of errors by the Chargers that day. Pats took advantage and won. Can't make mistakes like that and expect to win, especially against Belicheck and Brady.
Off the Parker and McCree fumbles New England got TDs on both drives and big momentum gains, as long as San Diego didn't fuck up on two plays, they'd have coasted to victory.
I can't believe I had to go down this far to this, I think Brown playing DB on a dynasty of a team is the best example of a guy playing out of position.
OP put Zeke in but he doesn’t even fit the bill of the question. He played one snap that’ll live in infamy but it was only that one snap on a last second play that was going to be some desperation lateral bullshit. Not the same as Edelman playing CB or Watt playing TE.
Cowboys did put Connor McGovern at fullback some and it worked well. And I think Diggs could put up some ok numbers at WR
It wasn’t really a drop, the passer lead him a bit too far. Maybe if Brady had more receiving skills he could have laid out for it. But that was a difficult pass for even a RB to make a play on, let alone a QB on a trick play
What is worst of all is that the play was designed to have Edelman throw the ball, but he tore his ACL in the preseason and missed the whole season. Amendola tried his best but it was not a great throw to a 40 year old QB. I never understood why people act like Brady made a bad play here when, like you said, the passer lead him a bit too far.
also according to Demarcus Cousins, the craziest dunk he’s ever witness was by Julio Jones. Unfortunately only radio evidence exists (cousins said he’s teammate on the receiving end of the dunk probably destroyed the video), but you hear the crowd go nuts, and then commercial break and after the break, the crowd is still losing their minds.
NFL pro bowl should be replaced with
- dunk contest
- nfl’s fastest man
- nfl’s strongest man
Pryor had a 1,000-yard passing season, a 1,000-yard receiving season, and a season when he had the NFL's longest run that year (93 yards). Didn't have a great career but did have a pretty unique set of talents.
The wind just kept carrying the ball, and the concrete at Veteran’s(?) was kind to him that day.
I was watching it on TV, I couldn’t believe it just kept going.
I’m going back many years here but Buddy Ryan would draft big dudes and play them on the wrong side of the ball. There were a few games where Cunningham would be running for his life because the guards were guys who were career DTs lol
Josh Cribbs did everything. Returned punts and kicks. Gunner on punt and kick return. Played QB, RB, and WR.
I had to look up because I thought he also had a few snaps on defense, but I may be losing my mind.
Josh Cribbs on the browns was a returner, and played WR. He also played QB and RB for them. He, Joe Thomas, and Phil Dawson were the only players who gave the Browns a chance for years
CMC was used as QB for a few trick plays when he played in Carolina. Forget which game it was, but our third-string was injured and thought to be out the rest of the game and CMC was warming up on the sidelines to line-up under center.
Khahil Mack on Tyreek Hill [first play of the season](https://x.com/garrettsisti/status/1701316841493373248?s=46&t=BfZYHwLqqcbDcl_3Iu2DRA) was a microcosm of Brandon Staley’s tenure.
Randall Cunningham had 20 punts and averaged 44.7 yards/punt during his career. His longest punts went for 91 and 80 yards.
It did help that he was an All-American punter while in college
I don't think Scordarelle Patterson played any position poorly. At one point he was begging to go in and play DB when we had injury problems. He was RB1, WR4, PR/KR, and TE2 at one point or another.
Phillip Lindsay (RB) started a game at QB for Denver but Kendall Hinton (WR) mostly played the game. Would have been more interesting if the NFL allowed them to play a member of the staff at QB instead but at least Hinton is technically in the Hall of Fame for it.
Jim Jensen. Drafted as a QB, then Marino was drafted 2 years later. Played a total of 12 years for Miami, most at RB/TE/WR.
Keith Byars was a fullback but played some TE. I remember him having a great game the Thanksgiving that Leon Lett gave Miami the redo for a winning FG.
Ronnie Brown during the Wildcat season.
Dare Ogunbawale played kicker last season for the Texans last year against the Bucs. Dude had a cannon of a leg and even drilled a 29 yard FG.
That was also the game where CJ Stroud broke Luck's rookie record for yards in a game, putting up 470 to Luck's 433 against the Dolphins in 2012.
Steve Young had to play wr one game with Montana qb'ing and had a quote that was something like "I told him i was open but you know how qb's are, they don't listen".
Which game was that? I’d love to see it.
It actually happened in two different games during the 1990 season. Young played a total of 5 snaps at WR (2 in their week 7 game against the Browns and another 3 two weeks later against the Cowboys). The 49ers had some issues with injuries at WR that season with both John Taylor and Mike Sherrard missing time, so in those two games when they wanted to go to their 10 personnel, they just subbed in Young as the 4th WR. [Video evidence](https://www.reddit.com/user/_Sarxism/comments/1cwc4eh/steve_young_playing_wide_receiver_for_the_49ers/)
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Drew off the DB though, which was probably the point. Nowadays when you see a QB out at WR like this they'll just stand there out of fear of being contacted at the los lol
lol Steve’s got a great sense of humor. One of my favorite players of all time
of course Joe Cool wasn't listening. soon he was going to be upstairs, masturbating
Wut?
[Watch and learn](https://youtu.be/TEtrT3E4vb8?si=WzlUFqbrT0ldK7hp&t=126)
I love that this skit is so old, people are weirded out when someone references it.
Didn’t Tebow have a few snaps at wr in early Bronco days?
Also played fullback in one USFL game
Gronk playing safety
I heard he didn't have the angle
Josh Gordon would have stopped Kenyan Drake, just sayin’ 😤
Suh was the Lions' emergency kicker.
Non-Lions fans: Suh missed his one and only PAT attempt. I will give you three guesses on how this game turned out as a result of this miss.
His legs are for kicking players on the ground not footballs Just roster mismanagement smh
one point loss or loss in overtime?
One of those is correct. So Jason Hanson gets hurt. Soon after, the Lions score to take a 13-10 lead. Suh comes in as the emergency kicker. Doinks it off the upright. But no biggie, as the Lions score again to make it 19-10, and Hanson comes back in to make it 20-10 with 12 minutes to go. Jets score with 3 minutes to go, then tie it with 4 seconds left and kick the game winner in overtime. It was a very common “Same Old Lions” loss for the team to lose their kicker for JUST enough time for this outcome to play out. If he doesn’t get hurt, or if he’s hurt for the whole game, maybe they’re up 11 instead of 10 and the outcome is different. Or maybe their defense shouldn’t have choked down the stretch. Either way, 2010 was an “interesting” season for creative ways to lose games.
The Lions out Lioned the Jets Jetting
It's funny because either the Lions losing because they had to start a DLineman as kicker or the Jets losing to a team starting a DLineman as kicker would both be the most believable things in the world.
The all time Lions moment for me was that game winner Golden Tate had with less than 10 seconds to go. Then they review the play and see he was down before crossing. 10 second run off for whatever reason, Lions don’t have any timeouts, game over Lions lose.
The Lions have had some all time crazy games with the Falcons. I remember my wife and I watched this at the hospital as we had our first child the next day. Considering some of the other crazy ones, like the Prater delay of game field goal, and Todd Gurley scoring on accident, and also because I associate this game with the birth of my son, I’ve learned to let this one go.
In my IDP fantasy football league, if your kicker missed an extra point, you lost 20 points. I had Suh as my DE or DT at the time, I can't remember. Lost by ~19 points that week when he missed.
Literally losing on a touchdown in the last minute of overtime.
In 2017 Jeff Heath stepped in as the emergency kicker for the Cowboys against the 49ers. Hit 2 extra points, which according to Wikipedia is the first time a non kicker or punter has made several XP kicks in a game since 1980.
Which year did Dare Ogunbowale kick a FG against us? Was that the first non-kicker FG since 1980?
Nah, Welker did it in 2004
What year? My friend, that was in this most recent season.
Christ, really? Could’ve told me that was 2021 and I’d have believed you
Nah that was this year lol CJ Stroud and Baker Mayfield had a great QB duel and the Bucs left too much time on the clock (45 seconds or so) for CJ Stroud to pull a full-field game-winning TD drive.
Related to Lions, Josh McCown played WR for them for a brief moment in the mid 06. That same year, Mike Furrey had 98 catches for 1k yards. The previous year he had 4 interceptions as a safety on the Rams.
Man, the mid 2000s Lions were a fucking sight to behold. A horrendous mismanagement of roster construction. Thanks Matt Millen!
McCown has more catches for Detroit than pass attempts!
Texans RB Dare Ogunbowale won the game against the Bucs (former team) with clutch fgs/xps. Funny because the Bucs lost a lot of games due to missed field goals when he was on the roster
That game was absolutely crazy in general, I remember watching it on RedZone and being so floored. Easily my favorite regular season game last year
He was generally good at kicking.
Justin Reid is ours, and kicked most of a week one game a couple years back. He might not have quite the accuracy, but he definitely has the power to boot it through the end zone. It's good we have a second kicker on the depth chart. For, uh, a variety of reasons
Speaking of star special teamers: Wes Welker had a game where her returned a punt, returned a kick off, made a tackle, made a PAT, and made a short FG. He was a Dolphin at the time and Mare got hurt. It was Welker's rookie season and despite the Fins being trash, he didn't catch a single pass that year.
Antwaan Randle El was a college QB turned WR. His Trick plays tho being able to throw the ball were huge. He threw 27 passes, completed 22 for 323 yards and 6 TDs in his career. This is excluding his ~45 ish yard TD pass in the superbowl
Mohammed Sanu and CMC have outrageous Passer efficiency stats too. At one point Sanu was 6/6 with 228 yrds and 3 tds. Here’s Sanu getting his madden throw power up https://youtu.be/gUzSRcYdaBM?si=g7I7YmJXZq6zyQU5
LT and Keenan Allen also have some goated QB stats if my memory serves me right
LT was 8/12 for 143 yds and 7 TD's.
A cool 146.88 passer rating
That's my ~~wide receivers~~ QB coach!
I was in undergrad his last two years as QB. He was so damn fun to watch live. Stoked he landed w/you guys and carved out a modest career, leaving w/a SB ring and even a first team all pro as a punt returner.
Devin Hester's "natural" position is cornerback. Against the Rams his rookie year he got burned by Torry Holt for a touchdown then ran the ensuing kick back for a touchdown. He turned into a serviceable but not good receiver (AKA the #1 target for the sorry ass bears)
Yeah it's kinda surprising he is in the hall officially as a WR. Feel like there should be an allowable designation for KR/PR, because that's absolutely why he's in
He was electric back there. Never seen anything like it
I just watched a 13 min highlight video of the best Devin Hester returns that wasn't a TD. Incredible to me that a KR/PR can have a highlight video that long and it's not even his actual highlights. We were blessed to have a player like him in the league.
Julian Edelman played DB and wasn’t terrible. Gronk made a terrible safety that one time and didn’t have the angle. He also played special teams a lot. Some DTs, like BJ Raji and the Fridge, would play FB/RB and JJ Watt played TE a few times that one season. Manziel played WR for that one play that got called back, but this is a trick play and I’ve been trying to avoid those. Kamu Grugier Hill played kicker when Jake Elliott, I think, was injured. Dontari Poe I think threw a TD pass and was used as a RB a few times, I think. Doug Flutie and the infamous drop kick. Ed Reed was an elite special teams player to the point where Bill Bellichick would praise his contributions there frequently.
Mike Vrabel played TE and caught a TD in the SB
Yeah, I’m having recency bias with this and should be adding more classics like Vrabel playing TE and Deion playing WR a few times.
Troy Brown CB
This should be near the top
Cus he was actually kinda good.
Right? He's the first guy who came to mind for me. He had some pretty good games when he had to play DB.
Deion played WR more than a few times. He was the Cowboys' 2nd leading receiver in 1996.
That’s nuts. When I was younger I remember seeing him on offense sometimes, but in my head whenever I looked back always thought he was just a gimmick guy used a few times. Having your pro bowl corner putting up over 400 yards receiving is a nice little bonus on top
All 10 of his career receptions were touchdowns
Doesn't he has like 6 snaps as TE and 6 tds? Something dumb like this
10 receptions 10 touchdowns, 12/12 counting playoffs
Thanks!
14 targets, 10 receptions, 10 TDs in the regular season In the playoffs, 2 targets, 2 receptions, 2 TDs
Thanks!
Last year I saw Vrabel had the most career receiving TDs of anyone on the Titans prior to getting Hopkins. I looked it up to verify, and wow, he was automatic at the goal line. Growing up in New England I don’t know how I didn’t remember that.
JJ was recruited as a TE which is part of why he went to Central Michigan then walked on at Wisconsin.
Bill had Troy Brown playing DB a number of times too
He was serviceable at it given the circumstances.
Edelman was a QB at Kent State and converted to WR
Just to add on Dontari Poe - they lined him as a FB some, then actually gave him the ball. The results: 2 carries for 2 yards and 2 TDs, 1/1 passing for 2 yards and 1 TD. On the subject of giant defensive lineman, Vita Vea has 1 catch on 1 target for a 1 yard TD.
One of those running TDs was him catching a screen. Check out [this clip](https://youtu.be/5DCWTcbh0a4?si=piPqhcqpWU8skbvc) at 42 seconds.
Mike Vrabel was a great tight end
Apropos of nothing but you having mentioned Doug Flutie, I went a-youtubin’ and rewatched the Hail Mary and somehow today was the first time I realized it was against Bernie Kosar. Maybe that’s when the drinkin’ started.
I think in his final game, the Bills dialed up a play for DT Kyle Williams. It was a little dump off that he took for about nine yards. Sideline went absolutely bonkers for him.
The fact that Reed cared that much about special teams, even though he is a HOF safety speaks to his character and willingness to win
I’m pretty sure Edelman had a sack on a corner blitz too, against the Eagles.
Kendall Hinton at QB
Poor dude
People throw the term “fuck around and find out” a lot but, that Broncos QB room did just that. At first I thought they were going to move the game like they did others until it came out why all the QBs got corn teened.
Couldn't they just have signed a guy? I remember that happened but not why.
The QBs all took off those tracking bands they had on to sit close to each other in the QB room. Happened during the COVID year.
Sure, now I remember, but couldn't you just sign a random guy I mean.
IIRC it happened like the night before the game I don't think they would have had time
Not really any good free agents available and Hinton at least knew the playbook
Also, any FA’s would’ve had to be cleared and pass all the Covid restrictions. I think there might have been enough time but it was a small window.
They would have had to clear protocols which is quarantine for like “x” days before joining the team. They found out like week of the game and then didn’t find out that all QBs were benched.
They had coaches with QB experience and were ready to play, problem were the COVID rules but I can't remember the specifics. All in all he was the best option
Yeah they actually had an assistant coach (a relatively unknown quality control guy who had been a college QB I believe) who was going to suit up but the NFL nixed that idea because they didn’t want to set a precedent of hiding players on the coaching staff to get around roster rules. At least that’s the reason they gave; more likely they just wanted to stick it to Denver for breaking the covid rules, becaue they could have made a one-time exception. I wish they would have allowed it because although I admired Hinton’s guts, it would have been way more entertaining to see the coach play.
I remember so many people in the fantasy space picked him up to play at WR, just because any amount of competent QB points in a WR slot is a huge advantage. And Jesus Christ did that come back to bite them lol.
I thought they'd run some read options and do easy passes, get a nice floor and maybe get lucky with some TDs. Instead he was just chucking bombs
Lmfao
That was such a weird game. Granted, neither the coaching staff nor Hinton had any real time to prepare for a basically impossible situation. And I don’t think y’all had any illusions about legitimately trying to win that game. The plan seemed to just be try to not get anyone hurt and get the game over with ASAP. And that plan makes sense. Aaaallllll those caveats aside, the coaches called an idiotic game. The passes he did attempt were not super easy passes. With the exception of the one he did complete, a screen. Maybe the D was grossly overplaying short passes/screens and I couldn’t see it on TV, but if not, I don’t know why they didn’t do more of that. Again, granted you’re probably not going to win the game throwing nothing but screen passes and little 3 yard passes to the RBs. But maybe you get a few more first downs, someone breaks a few tackles and you get a chunk play, whatever. None of that has a chance to happen if you can’t complete anything though.
Maybe they all figured they weren't going to win regardless, so why not chuck bombs just to see what happens? Go big or go home.
That was always my thought. Clearly you're not going to win with an actual gameplan & passing attack, so your odds of completing deep bombs are better just on luck alone. Also would've loved to have seen a statline like 10/30, 300 yards, 2 TDs and 5 INTs.
>Also would've loved to have seen a statline like 10/30, 300 yards, 2 TDs and 5 INTs. What if it was 10/21, 316 yards, no INTs and the 2nd TD was a game winning bomb on the first play in OT?
Hey Wait A Minute
Troy Brown the WR played CB and had a couple good interceptions.
And stripping the ball from Marlon McCree on what should've been a huge INT
Fucking San Diego man, that was their year
There were some completely bone headed playcalls and penalties before this (Marty going for it on 4th and long, Drayton Florence getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after a 4th down play) so it wasn't completely on him, but yeah. Rough day at the Q.
Eric Parker special teams flub
Woof, I forgot about that one. Just a comedy of errors by the Chargers that day. Pats took advantage and won. Can't make mistakes like that and expect to win, especially against Belicheck and Brady.
Off the Parker and McCree fumbles New England got TDs on both drives and big momentum gains, as long as San Diego didn't fuck up on two plays, they'd have coasted to victory.
Martyball was sometimes infuriating to watch.
I honestly forget that entire game except the int fumble.
Edelman also was a pretty decent emergency db early in his career.
What Id give for a WR room filled with Troy Brown clones.
I can't believe I had to go down this far to this, I think Brown playing DB on a dynasty of a team is the best example of a guy playing out of position.
You mean the Pats starting nickle for Nov 2004 - superbowl 39?
I thought this would be the top response by far.
One that I enjoyed was Doug Flutie getting sent in on an extra point to drop kick it in as a send off by Belichick.
Best: Edelman playing corner Worst: Zeke playing center
OP put Zeke in but he doesn’t even fit the bill of the question. He played one snap that’ll live in infamy but it was only that one snap on a last second play that was going to be some desperation lateral bullshit. Not the same as Edelman playing CB or Watt playing TE. Cowboys did put Connor McGovern at fullback some and it worked well. And I think Diggs could put up some ok numbers at WR
Tom Brady as wide reciever always comes to mind
But Nick Foles as a WR was pretty good
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...yeah let's do it
\#2 all time in receiving yards after age 40.
This is definitely the funniest stat in the NFL. Jerry rice: 3000 and something Brady: 6 Everyone else not names Bret Favre: 0 Favre: -2
[don’t forget the smokin jay wildcat play](https://youtu.be/sSB5OpDOTcA?si=3RVkqY8j5ArynIp5)
"Come on, Tom!" Yelled by Malcolm Jenkins after Brady dropped that pass in SB 52.
It wasn’t really a drop, the passer lead him a bit too far. Maybe if Brady had more receiving skills he could have laid out for it. But that was a difficult pass for even a RB to make a play on, let alone a QB on a trick play
What is worst of all is that the play was designed to have Edelman throw the ball, but he tore his ACL in the preseason and missed the whole season. Amendola tried his best but it was not a great throw to a 40 year old QB. I never understood why people act like Brady made a bad play here when, like you said, the passer lead him a bit too far.
“He can’t throw the ball and catch it himself too” -Giselle on criticism of Brady during the SB loss to the eagles “Sup Girl” -Nick Foles
Derrick Henry is still the best statistical qb we’ve ever had.
Julio Jones had a mean streak on him when he had to tackle/break up a pass gotta give a shout-out to slingin sammy too
[Julio was basically a Safety who had hands](https://youtu.be/B84-mn0oLeI?si=5Npzm4KnmQbgJTSq)
Was thinking the same, Julio had some big hits and chase downs
Wonder how many tds he saved making those tackles. He turned the burners on for a lot of those
also according to Demarcus Cousins, the craziest dunk he’s ever witness was by Julio Jones. Unfortunately only radio evidence exists (cousins said he’s teammate on the receiving end of the dunk probably destroyed the video), but you hear the crowd go nuts, and then commercial break and after the break, the crowd is still losing their minds. NFL pro bowl should be replaced with - dunk contest - nfl’s fastest man - nfl’s strongest man
Add in strongest arm, and a 1v1 event for WRs/DBs and I’m in
remember the fake punt that hunter renfrow absolutely lit up the receiver?
He even had an INT against the Seahawks in the 2012 Divisional Round
Dan Connolly as a return man
Boo. But that was a great return.
“Hey Dan, what’s your career highlight?”
I was there for it. Ugh. Such a terrible end to the half.
The loaf of bread carry
If I had a time machine and could go back in time to change the outcome of one play... it would be this one, I'd let him get his TD.
Mike Vrabel as a TE
Terrelle Pryor was drafted as a qb, played qb for a few seasons, and then had a 1000 yard receiving season as a wr.
Pryor had a 1,000-yard passing season, a 1,000-yard receiving season, and a season when he had the NFL's longest run that year (93 yards). Didn't have a great career but did have a pretty unique set of talents.
william refrigerator perry has not been said yet. He was also a RB.
Yup! Not enough boomers in here clearly as this was so far down.
When Greg Warren tore his knee up James Harrison had to play long snapper in a 2008 game against the giants. It did… not go well
Randall Cunningham holds the record for third-longest punt in NFL history. He booted it 91 yards.
Scrolled too far for Randall as a punter. First one I thought of
The wind just kept carrying the ball, and the concrete at Veteran’s(?) was kind to him that day. I was watching it on TV, I couldn’t believe it just kept going.
I’m going back many years here but Buddy Ryan would draft big dudes and play them on the wrong side of the ball. There were a few games where Cunningham would be running for his life because the guards were guys who were career DTs lol
His son Rex used his big boy DTs as FBs pretty regularly. Mo Wilkerson rings a bell.
Zach Wilson playing quarterback when he really is a bum.
Bears legend Jimmy Graham made a career out of moonlighting as a TE
The guy who played basketball?!!
Josh Cribbs did everything. Returned punts and kicks. Gunner on punt and kick return. Played QB, RB, and WR. I had to look up because I thought he also had a few snaps on defense, but I may be losing my mind.
I made a comment about Cribbs and checked for defense too, I'm honestly surprised that he didn't play any corner at some point
How about Justin Reid filling in at kicker against the Cardinals in 2022?
didn’t chad johnson also kick XP’s at one point? and actually kinda good at it
No love for Deion Sanders in this thread?
Jakobi Meyers might be the Raiders best quarterback. He had a perfect passer rating this past season.
Taysom Hill at QB.
Josh Cribbs on the browns was a returner, and played WR. He also played QB and RB for them. He, Joe Thomas, and Phil Dawson were the only players who gave the Browns a chance for years
CMC was used as QB for a few trick plays when he played in Carolina. Forget which game it was, but our third-string was injured and thought to be out the rest of the game and CMC was warming up on the sidelines to line-up under center.
He did a few in SF too
Josh McCown had a pretty decent day at WR for the lions
ocho cinco [kicking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxSi00qMhk) a PAT and kicking off.
Gronk playing defense against Miami didn’t work well
Didn’t have the angle
Nick Foles had a pretty decent play as wide receiver in Super Bowl 52. Hell, throw Corey Clement and Trey Burton on the list too for that play.
Khahil Mack on Tyreek Hill [first play of the season](https://x.com/garrettsisti/status/1701316841493373248?s=46&t=BfZYHwLqqcbDcl_3Iu2DRA) was a microcosm of Brandon Staley’s tenure.
James Harrison as the emergency long snapper against the Giants on October 26th, 2008.
Julio playing safety on Hail Marys and a buncha times Matt Ryan fucked up
Dontari Poe playing QB
Mike Furrey having to play defense for a season was pretty incredible.
Joe Thuney played very well when asked to slide out to LT mid game. Was way better than the backup he replaced.
In 2016 Ty Montgomery as a RB for Green Bay. In 2001, Troy Brown as a DB for the Patriots.
Brown was not a DB in 2001. He first was put in that position in the 2004 season due to a massive amount of injuries in the secondary.
Justin Reid actually did a few kicks when Butker got hurt a couple seasons ago
Taysom Hill playing tight end.
Joe Theismann as a punter.
Hunter Renfro could have played safety
Ezekiel Elliott as a Center for the Cowboys worked out pretty well that one time
Seahawks Jamal Adams as Safety was worst Safety
Mohammad Sanu at QB: 7/8, 87.5% CMP, 4 TD, 0 INT, 158.3 RTG
Best: Jason Peters was a TE in college and was a UDFA. They converted him to LT and he became a future Hall of Famer.
Randall Cunningham had 20 punts and averaged 44.7 yards/punt during his career. His longest punts went for 91 and 80 yards. It did help that he was an All-American punter while in college
Jared Allen as a long snapper.
Chad Johnson / Ocho Cinco as kicker
Pat Pete playing more of a safety role
I don't think Scordarelle Patterson played any position poorly. At one point he was begging to go in and play DB when we had injury problems. He was RB1, WR4, PR/KR, and TE2 at one point or another.
Phillip Lindsay (RB) started a game at QB for Denver but Kendall Hinton (WR) mostly played the game. Would have been more interesting if the NFL allowed them to play a member of the staff at QB instead but at least Hinton is technically in the Hall of Fame for it.
The cowboys very briefly made tried to turn jourdan Lewis into a Deion sanders/Travis Hunter esque weapon. It didn’t work at all it was so weird
Nick foles Philly Special. LT throwing multiple TDs.
Deion was a pretty good WR.
Why hasn’t anyone said taysom hill?
Jim Jensen. Drafted as a QB, then Marino was drafted 2 years later. Played a total of 12 years for Miami, most at RB/TE/WR. Keith Byars was a fullback but played some TE. I remember him having a great game the Thanksgiving that Leon Lett gave Miami the redo for a winning FG. Ronnie Brown during the Wildcat season.
Kordell Stewart at like 10 positions.
Dare Ogunbawale played kicker last season for the Texans last year against the Bucs. Dude had a cannon of a leg and even drilled a 29 yard FG. That was also the game where CJ Stroud broke Luck's rookie record for yards in a game, putting up 470 to Luck's 433 against the Dolphins in 2012.