Top 5 Corners?

[n_huffhines]

With Champ retiring, someone brought it up in the Broncos thread, but where does everyone see him ranking among CBs all-time?

I'll keep my list to the guys I actually watched:

1 - Deion Sanders
2 - Rod Woodson
3a - Champ Bailey
3b - Charles Woodson
5 - Darrell Green

 

[YankeeVol]

I actually agree with your list. I'd switch Bailey and Woodson personally but thats minor.

 

[BearCat204]

I'd put dick lane, lem barney, and lebeau right after rod and deion

 

[BearCat204]

I'd put dick lane, lem barney, and lebeau right after rod and deion

1) Rod Woodson
2) Deion Sanders
3) Night Train
4) Lem Barney
5a)Charles Woodson
5b)Dick Lebeau

 

[Weezy]

I feel strongly about Champ being better than Woodson. There was a good four year stretch where teams didn't throw at Champ. And he was always stellar against the run. I always saw Woodson as a playmaker, but not a shut down corner.

Champ is the best I've seen. I was too young to remember Deion.

 

[Weezy]

This article (Clark Judge, previously from CBS) is about the last of shutdown corners, but I thought it also covered Champ well.

Bailey last of shutdown corners?

But that’s my point. Champ Bailey was so good in the game he played that his effectiveness was seldom challenged. According to Pro Football Focus, opponents threw at Bailey just 20 times in 2008 … 20 times … tangible evidence of the respect opponents had for him.

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When I think of a shutdown corner, I think of Deion Sanders, Mike Haynes, Rod Woodson, Darrell Green and, yes, Champ Bailey.

 

[BadJerry20]

Ronnie Lott damn it...sorry I love me some Ronnie.

1. Deion ( I'm fairly confident we will never see another guy like him)



2. Rod
3. Champ (by a hair)
4. Charles
5. Green

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

1. Deion
2. Night Train Lane
3. Rod Woodson
4. LeBeau
5. Blount