William Andrews
The third-rounder out of Auburn was an elite back in his first five seasons, averaging 80.2 yards per game on the ground and another 36.3 through the air and scoring 40 touchdowns in 72 games, missing time to a players’ strike in 1982. That season, he famously trucked Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott for what the cornerback would call the hardest hit he’d sustained in his career. “He didn’t see me. The whole time I was saying to myself, This is it! Then, boom,” Lott told Sports Illustrated. “I slid off of him like butter. I hit the ground, and he didn’t go down. I was thinking, What?” Following a knee injury in the 1984 preseason, Andrews played in just 15 more games.