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3 Bears make list of top 11 college football players of all-time

College football unveiled the top-11 collegiate players of all time, and 3 of them went on to play for the Chicago Bears.

As college football celebrates its 150th season, they’ve counted down the top collegiate players of all time. During halftime of Monday’s National Championship Game, they unveiled the top-11 college players of all time — and three of them went on to play for the Chicago Bears.

Running back Red Grange, linebacker Dick Butkus and running back Gale Sayers made the list. All three are Hall of Famers and played their whole careers with the Bears.

Here’s the full list:

  1. Jim Brown
  2. Herschel Walker
  3. Bo Jackson
  4. Archie Griffin
  5. Jim Thorpe
  6. Red Grange
  7. Earl Campbell
  8. Dick Butkus
  9. Barry sanders
  10. Gale Sayers
  11. Roger Staubach

Oh, and let us not forget…

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Drafts that saw a team select multiple players who became Hall of Famers

Drew Brees one day will join LaDainian Tomlinson in Canton. What other teams drafted multiple players in one year who went on to the HOF?

The Chicago Bears chose Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers, back-to-back no less, in the 1965 NFL Draft and wound up with a pair of Hall of Famers. The Chargers chose LaDainian Tomlinson and Drew Brees in the 2001 draft. When the Saints’ QB is done, he will surely join LT in Canton. Here are some of the teams fortunate to choose multiple players in one draft since 1960 that went on to Hall-of-Fame careers.

Dallas Texans (AFL): 1963

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Buck Buchanan was the first pick of the Dallas Texans from Grambling State in the AFL Draft. In the seventh round, the Texans, who became the Kansas City Chiefs chose LB Bobby Bell from Minnesota.

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Dick Butkus, Doug Atkins, Bill Hewitt latest Bears named to NFL’s All-Time Team

Linebacker Dick Butkus and defensive end Doug Atkins were the latest Bears to earn a spot on the NFL’s All-Time Team.

As the NFL continues to countdown the best players in the league’s 100-year history, there are three more Chicago Bears that made the NFL 100’s All-Time Team.

Linebacker Dick Butkus and defensive ends Doug Atkins and Bill Hewitt were the latest Bears to earn a spot on the list, both of which were revealed on Friday night.

The complete list of linebackers included: Chuck Bednarik, Bobby Bell, Derrick Brooks, Butkus, Jack Ham, Ted Hendricks, Jack Lambert, Willie Lanier, Ray Lewis, Joe Schmidt, Junior Seau and Lawrence Taylor.

The complete list of defensive ends included: Atkins, Hewitt, Deacon Jones, Gino Marchetti, Lee Roy Selmon, Bruce Smith and Reggie White.

Given the talent at linebacker over the Bears’ storied 100-year history, it’s an absolute shock that Butkus was the only linebacker named to the NFL 100 All-Time Team. You could argue that Bill George, Mike Singletary and Brian Urlacher all deserved a spot on the list given their dominance at the position in their respective decades.

Running backs Walter Payton and Gale Sayers were previously named to the All-Time Team.

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Bears to wear 1960s-era helmets featuring white ‘C’ vs. Giants

The Bears will honor the 1960s against the Giants, where they’ll wear the 1960s-era helmets featuring the white “C” and gray face mask.

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As the Chicago Bears celebrate their centennial season, they continue to honor the traditions of decades past. Every home game this season — preseason and regular season — has honored one of the 10 decades of Bears football.

When the Bears host the New York Giants on Sunday (noon CT) at Soldier Field, the team will honor the 1960s Bears, which featured Hall of Famers Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers.

The Bears will don 1960s-era helmets with a white “C” and gray face mask. Those helmets made their debut in 1962, according to the Bears.

This isn’t the first throwback the Bears have worn this season. They wore their classic 1936 uniform against the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 29, and they’ll wear them one final time against the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 5.

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