Who wore it best

[whosyourdawgy]

Greg Plump was 10

[Coach34]

Greg Plump was 10

I'd take Holloway over Greg Plump

[War Machine Dawg]

Was Frankie Luster #4
What about Kelvin Knight for #5

Nice throwback suggestions. Completely forgot about both of them.

[BayouDawg]

1 Eric Moulds
2 Fred Smoot
3 Pegues
4 Tony Burks
5 Nickoe Whitley (switched to 1 his senior year)
6 Anthony Derricks ( I think he wore 6)
7 Matt Wyatt
8 Justin Jenkins
9 Slay
10 Ray Ray/ Cam Lawrence

[Schultzy]

2. Walt Harris (Started the tradition of #2 at DB)

1st round to the Chicago Bears, 13th overall pick.

[Schultzy]

---

What about Anthony Derricks? #6?

I always liked him. Made some big plays for us

He had a pick six for 70 something yards to put us up a TD early at Auburn against Buster Browns crew, we went on to win 20-0 that day. I'm two and 0 at Jordan Hare by the way.

[klong-dog]

Eric Brown was 18. I'd take him over the others mentioned.

[Johnson85]

1 Moulds
2 Smoot
3 Derek Pegeus
4 Charles Mitchell
5 Nickoe Whitley
6 Fred McCrary
7 Matt Wyatt
8 Justin Jenkins
9 Slay
10 Cam Lawrence
11 Scott Westerfield
12 Kevin Prentiss/Norwood
13 John Bond/Johnathan Banks
14 Omarr Conner
15 Don Smith (not going to piss off the engines)
16 FANT
17 Tyler Russell
18 Eric Brown
19
20

[State82]

#8

Glen Young

endzone to endzone

Hail State!

Bear nailed #8. No question about it. Dual sport guy, too.

[Tbonewannabe]

Greg Plump was 10

Just cried silently to myself.

[Bubb Rubb]

I love Robert Bean more than most- but #13 will always be Bond- John Bond

This was an oversight on my part, and an embarrassing one

[Bubb Rubb]

The only ones I'd quibble with are:

Brandon McRae. Maybe if he had been on a better team with a better QB, but I'd give Malcolm Johnson the nod over him.
Kelvin Love. I remember Justin Jenkins more, so I assume he was better. Mostly I remember Kelvin Love for throwing him a bunch of jump balls that he couldn't come down with. But I really don't remember paying attention to either enough to know which one is better or which one had better stats.
Robert Bean. I know Bean was good and he and Smoot were a great tandem, but was he as good as Banks?

I'm on the fence with:
Madkin. He was winningest QB at MSU when he finished, played in a SEC CG, and also had a good three year stretch, but he was still almost a game manager. Slay was obviously NFL talent, but we spent a year with him playing special teams and even when he started Wilson's scheme didn't take advantage of having him and Banks opposite of each other. Not sure he should be docked because we got so little out of him. Tough call.
Kevin Prentiss. He was electric and I wish we could see him in today's spread offenses. I think he'd put up gaudy numbers. But Norwood you can say the same about Norwood. Both are way up there on my list of favorite players. Another tough one.

I try to keep from playing revisionist history with the newer players, which is why I probably gave preference to some of the older ones.

Madkin has to be over Slay in my opinion. He was a four year starter during a successful era, and held several records for a while. While Slay was NFL talent, he was a one year starter on our defense.

Brandon McRae was a helluva player, and I would've loved to have seen him in an offense like the one we have now. Same for Kelvin Love. He gets the nod over Jenkins for #8 because he made so many big catches. For better or worse, Jenkins is remembered in my mind for a lot of big drops. It was rumored at one time that he didn't like Madkin and didn't exactly play his hardest, but I don't know how much of that is true, and how much of that is just an excuse for his poor play. He obviously had NFL talent, but he struggled too.

Norwood is one of my all time favorites, too. I just think Prentiss was special. I'll never forget the punt return against Tennessee in 1998, where for a fleeting moment, he made it possible for us to think that we were about to win the freaking SEC championship.

[PSYCHO(thesis)DEFENSE]

Jenkins for #8

My stepdad at the time was a campus cop & pulled Jenkins over once. He said Jenkins was talking on the phone & playing with a yo-yo the whole time he was stopped so he gave him a ticket. I always LOL'd at that.