For the 100th season of the National Football League, the NFL has been releasing its list of top 100 players to ever play the game, broken down by position groups.
The release has been coming steadily over the past several weeks, and the naming of the top quarterbacks of all time recently came out to top it all off before the end of 2019. One member of the Washington Redskins was featured in that final grouping of 10, and it’s very well deserved.
Slingin’ Sammy Baugh is one of the best QBs in NFL history, and he’s receiving one of his many days in the sun, more than a decade after his passing in 2008.
Sammy Baugh is one of 10 QBs selected to the #NFL100 All-Time Team!
🏛 2x NFL Champion
🏛 3x First-Team All-Pro
🏛 6x Pro Bowler
🏛 T-Most defensive INTs in a single game in NFL history (4)
🏛 Led NFL in completions, punt yards and defensive INTs in 1943 pic.twitter.com/43UhJqLQjT— NFL (@NFL) December 28, 2019
Baugh was a renaissance man if there ever was one in the NFL, as he not only excelled at the quarterback position, but he was also a dynamic defensive back and punter as well. In his 15+ plus years with the Redskins, Baugh was a two-time NFL champion (1937, 1942); four-time first-team All-Pro selection; led NFL in completion percentage eight times, passing yards four times, and a member of the inaugural class in Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963).
In our list of the top 100 Redskins in franchise history earlier this year, Baugh ranked as the fifth-best player Washington has ever had, and many could argue that he should be higher. Now he is getting more well-deserved recognition by the NFL itself. Congrats Sammy, we appreciate all you did for the Redskins.
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