Has any NFL player won a championship at all 3 levels? (moved to LambeauLeap)

[Kpanz20]

---------------------------------

Note:
I've copied all the posts in this thread over to LambeauLeap.

Has any NFL player won a championship at all 3 levels?

Feel free to continue the discussion over there.
--1992casey

---------------------------------

 

I know most of the interests on this site are related to baseball, but this question is driving me nuts. I haven't found an answer yet so I thought I'd try here...

 

High school, College, and in the NFL.

I know Addai won in college and pro, but I didn't see a hs one.

Does anyone know of someone who has completed the trifecta??

[PlayerHader]

I would be shocked if there wasn't anyone.

 

That said, I'm not going to go and look.

[Kpanz20]

I found that Derrick Brooks did it... there's gotta be others tho.

[ccbrew]

I'm sure there are a bunch.

 

Mike Doss

1997 & 1998 Canton McKinley HS

(1997 USA Today HS National Champion)

2002 Ohio State Buckeyes

2006 Indianapolis Colts

 

Jeremy Shockey

1998 Ada HS (lost in state championship)

2001 Miami Hurricanes

2008 New York Giants

[chuckiehacks]

The hardest part of this is defining a high school national championship. Are we saying that the USA Today rankings are the definitive "title?"

[jwill535]

the league has to have been littered with players that won state, NCAA and the Super Bowl. Remember there are 52 players or so on a roster, everyone was a star to some extent in college and defiently in high school. You can almost gurantee that at least 50% or more of players in the NFL won state in high school, 10-15% of the the NFL were members of NCAA championship teams.

[JJHardy7]

10-15% of the the NFL were members of NCAA championship teams.

 

This would assume that there are 170 - 254 players in the NFL with NCAA championships (53 man roster x 32 x 10% or 15%). I don't know if that's really the case. The vast majority of NCAA championship players never play a down in the NFL.

[Dmiles23]

the league has to have been littered with players that won state, NCAA and the Super Bowl. Remember there are 52 players or so on a roster, everyone was a star to some extent in college and defiently in high school. You can almost gurantee that at least 50% or more of players in the NFL won state in high school, 10-15% of the the NFL were members of NCAA championship teams.

50% or more of NFL players won a state championship in high school? No way! That's crazy. I'd even say 20% would be very high.

 

And 10-15% won a NCAA championship? Adding to what JJHardy7 said... say there's 80 players on a college team. And say the average shelf life of an NFL player is 6 years. That's 480 players that have won a national championship in that time frame. So, according to your %'s, 35-53% (170/480 and 254/480) of each national championship team would need to be in the NFL. Just looking at the Packers roster right now, and not doing any research, I'd say between 3-6 of the 74 men on the roster now won a NCAA national championship. I'd say the correct % is between 5-8%

 

[jwill535]

i was just throwing numbers out there, but when it comes to High School, most of these guys played as Frosh or Sophs, with the amount of different levels in high school in different states it isnt that hard to think that 50 of upper level D1 players played on State teams. 4-6 Divisions per state, 3-4 years to accomplish that and you it isnt that much of a stretch.

[1992casey]

I've copied all the posts in this thread over to LambeauLeap.

 

Has any NFL player won a championship at all 3 levels?

 

Feel free to continue the discussion over there.