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Watching MNF and started thinking about the journeys of each player. Made me think.....what if you had to build and NFL franchise of current & retired players but could only pick players that were born or grew up in your home state?

I'm from Texas (duh), so I limited the list to people that were born in and played their whole high school career in Texas. Strahan was technically a military brat born in Germany but his family is from TX and he played high school and college ball in Texas, so it made sense to include him. Center, guard and tight end didn't feel the strongest. I focused on mostly on guys that were either HoF or close enough. Tried to mix old school and new school players but didn't dig that deep. If we can find more o-line depth, I like our chances being able to run the ball A LOT and then set up play-action. The defense is going to be nasty.........

QB - Patrick Mahomes, Drew Brees, Sammy Baugh

RB - Eric Dickerson, LaDainian Tomlinson, Earl Campbell, Adrian Peterson

FB - Larry Centers

WR - Tim Brown, Mike Evans, Cliff Branch, Raymond Berry, Don Maynard, Charley Taylor

TE - ??

T - Forrest Gregg, Richmond Webb, Jason Peters

C - Bulldog Turner

G - Gene Upshaw

DE - Michael Strahan, Harvey Martin, Von Miller

DT - Joe Greene, Bob Lily, John Randle, Sam Adams

LB - Mike Singletary, Tommy Nobis, Zach Thomas

CB - Dick "Night Train" Lane, Darrell Green, Mel Renfro, Mike Haynes, Emmitt Thomas

S - Earl Thomas III, Ken Houston

P - Shane Lechler

K - Matt Stover

Coaches - Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson

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[–] koalabear9301@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

For Maryland

Offense

QB: Doug Flutie

WR: Stefon Diggs, Antonio Freeman, Bryant Johnson, Jermaine Lewis

RB: Todd Gurley, Brian Westbrook

TE: Darren Waller, Freddie Jones

LT: Irv Pankey

LG: Keith Sims

C: Hank Fraley

RG: Ron Solt

RT: Rob Havenstein

Defense

DT: Darnell Dockett, Larry Webster

DE: Chase Young, Cameron Wake

LOLB: Shaquil Barrett

MLB: Navorro Bowman

ROLB: Julian Peterson

CB: Trevon Diggs, Joe Haden, Kyle Fuller, Ronald Darby

FS: Adrian Amos

SS: Robert Griffith

P: Sean Landeta

K: Brian Franco (The only kicker the state has ever produced)

HC: Bill Belichick wasn't born in Maryland but he was raised in Annapolis so I'll put him here.