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Players like Kurt Warner, Warren Moon and John Randle are Hall of Famers, but they started their NFL careers as undrafted free agents.

In today's article about George Young, who should have been in the Hall of Fame YEARS AGO, you listed his best and worst draft choices. I don't know what team you were watching after the 1989 draft...

Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images A bit of cheating, yes, but these two are interlocked and have similar Jaguars origin stories. A former Cowboys Round 2 pick, Smith caught on with the Jags in 1995 on a low-end deal. McCardell, an ex-Browns auxiliary wideout, joined him a year later. No Jaguar receiving tandem has approached their work, and their first four seasons together produced six 1,000-yard campaigns between them and four Jacksonville playoff berths. Both landed higher-paying extensions, but the Jags capitalized on the exclusive negotiating rights that came with signing the duo in the mi...

Franco Harris and Rod Woodson both know a bit about overcoming long odds. Harris is famous for a game-winning touchdown in the final seconds of a 1972 National Football League (NFL) playoff game for the Pittsburgh Steelers, when he plucked a deflected pass off his shoe top. Woodson, a defensive back, returned quickly from a major knee injury suffered at age 30 with the Steelers, switched positions, and continued to be a standout. Both are among the most popular athletes in Pittsburgh, a city that adores the Steelers. Statue at Pittsburgh International Airport commemorating Franco Harr...