I think you could take some WWE guys into consideration. They are pretty amazing athletes, but I'm sure most are on roids.
How would you guys rate 2 sport stars like Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders if they were in their prime today? I'd think both would probably be up there. Probably Bo a little higher.
I don't know about his jump shot, but Jevon Kearse in his prime was ridiculous. LeBron probably has the title now
Undertaker would kick the shit out of him..........with that said, Herchel is still fighting MMA at the grand old age of "old as [uck fay]"
My first thought with NFL guys was Peterson or other running backs, but guys like Demarcus Ware are freaks with their size and footspeed. A man that size isnt supposed to be able to move like they are.
(1) endurance is essentially irrelevant in the NFL. A football game has about 14 minutes of actual action. Guys only play half the game. So nobody in the NFL is running for more than 7 minutes total. (2) I agree that no other sport has guys with the same combination of speed and strength than Pro Football. BUT (3) Athleticism also includes hand-eye coordination. Some positions in football require hand-eye coordination. Two of them, to be specific. The rest don't. (4) I think that, broadly speaking, the NBA has the best athletes in the world. At a young age, the very best athletes will gravitate towards basketball. Guys like Allen Iverson, who were very good at both sports in high school, will choose basketball. (5) Not all tennis players are great athletes, but the best four tennis players in the last 20 years -- Sampras, Federer, Djokovic, Nadal -- have been *absurd* athletes. I can see Sampras as an NFL safety. Nadal as a cornerback. Djokovic as a receiver. Federer as a QB (if he has a good arm...otherwise a pro soccer player, though it should then be noted that Nadal *definitely* could have played pro soccer). Agassi didn't have the raw athleticism of those guys, but he would have been an excellent baseball player. His hand eye coordination is otherworldy. (6) I use the above tennis examples because I do think a good way of thinking about athleticism is thinking about what other sports a guy might be able to play. (7) All that being said, the definition of athleticism is very fluid indeed. If this were 5 years ago, would anybody argue that Tiger Woods wasn't very much in the conversation for best athletes on the planet? And he plays a sport that I drink while I play.
Deion Sanders was an absurd athlete. And that would have been true even if he only played football. Same goes for Bo. I'd actually rate Sanders as a better overall athlete than Bo. The point is certainly arguable, though.
