Draft Dose: Two-sport athletes

With the possibility of a blockade of the NFL next season, there was speculation that QB Jake Locker could try the absence of an NFL season as an opportunity to try their luck in a career in baseball. Local twice by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who have developed their rights. A baseball scout quoted anonymously in Baseball America, Locker said a possible Hall of Fame could be.  However, Locker has reaffirmed its commitment to the survival of football.

In this sense, in 搂 19 of the draft dose series, we investigate the case of famous athletes in both sports were in their respective projects.

Prime Time  was the fifth pick in 1989 by the NFL Falcons. But a year ago, the New York Yankees as an outfielder selected Sanders in the series 30 of the MLB draft. Sanders played for four teams in nine seasons in the majors, but never played a full season, and he was still juggling football and baseball. His best moment baseball have helped the Braves in the World Series in 1992. Sanders, of course, made his fortune on the football field as one of the best cornerbacks in the league history. The eight-time Pro Bowl ended his career with 53 interceptions, nine of them in return for scores. Sanders will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.


After a dominant career at Auburn that included Heisman Trophy, Jackson was the first choice for Tampa Bay in the 1986 draft in the NFL. However, Jackson chose to play baseball, rather than after the Royals selected him in the fourth round of the 1986 baseball draft. Jackson made his debut in Major League September, a stunning achievement in itself, and one of Steve Carlton in his first major league at-bat. However, Jackson returned to football after the Raiders selected him in the seventh round and offered him more money and flexibility for both sports play again. Jackson played four seasons with the Raiders, so that the Pro Bowl in 1990, but he only played in 10 games this year. Jackson played eight seasons in baseball, was an All-Star game as a left fielder, but at the end of his career was cut short in two sports after he had to have his hip surgery. He played two seasons in baseball, but back in the NFL.


After a career in football and basketball in the state of Florida, including a Heisman Trophy, is not sure he wanted Ward to play professionally. Ward said NFL teams he would play basketball, unless it is a first round pick was. Like most teams did not have great value, Ward was drafted in the 1994 NFL draft, he went to play basketball. Ward was playing one of the first round pick of the New York Knicks in the NBA in 1994 and went to 12 seasons in the NBA, averaging just over six points per game in his career.


Elway was drafted by the Royals in 1979 but not yet signed. Two years later, the New York Yankees and signed Elway, who hit .318 in 42 minor league games. Elway then uses his keen sense for baseball as a lever to force him from Baltimore. The Colts took Elway with the first pick in the NFL in 1983, but Elway publicly declared their intention to never play for Baltimore. The Colts gave up and traded Elway the Broncos, where he went to Denver to two Super Bowl victory. The nine-time Pro Bowl was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004, and the conversation over a quarter of all time.

If you saw a couple of Fame, a league All-Star and the head so far in this list, sometimes does not attempt the two sports. can be taken after a solid career at Michigan as an example of A. Henson, Henson was drafted in the third round of the 1998 draft by the Yankees in the Major Leagues. Fast forward to 2003 and Henson had just nine plate appearances as a registered player in the majors. In the hope of more success on the field, Henson joined the Cowboys after the change of third-round pick for the Texans, the Henson as trade bait worked out in the sixth round of the QMJHL for 2003 NFL. The Cowboys thought they had found a potential franchise quarterback, but Henson has started one game for the  boys to forget an initial laboratory ended Day, when he spoke of Vinny Testa Verde has been replaced. Henson has recovered in the years prior to the in two roles in  08 with the Lions. Henson was one of the two-action game and moved shortly thereafter, resulting in a promising career to an end.