Two New York Jets made the ESPN list for the top 100 athletes of the 21st century.
Aaron Rodgers, the future Hall of Fame quarterback who signed with the Jets last season, checked in at No. 91 on the list. Former NFL player Darrelle Revis is at No. 96.
Revis spent two tenures with the Jets and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
ESPN will unveil 25 athletes at a time. In compiling the list, ESPN “received more than 70,000 votes from ESPN contributors to create our top 100.” The Jets players, very obviously, were in the grouping of athletes numbering No. 76-No. 100.
On Rodgers, ESPN sums up the qualifications for the Jets quarterback:
“Of all the superlatives and milestones that can be used to explain Rodgers’ greatness, here’s one that often gets overlooked. He’s the NFL’s all-time leader in touchdown-to-interception ratio (475 TDs, 105 INTS). In that way, he was the anti-Brett Favre, yet he carried on Favre’s remarkable run of success in Green Bay before getting traded to the Jets.”
The ranking is impressive and comes at a time when Rodgers’ legacy is being debated, with one NFL analyst saying that the Jets quarterback doesn’t deserve a seat among the all-time greats.
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For the full list from ESPN (from No. 76-No. 100) and to read what they had to say about Revis, click here.