M.D. Wright
11.1.09
Like the DT position, safety is the same -- free safeties and strong safeties are going to be considered alongside each other. Besides, the best safeties play all over the field.
1. ADRIAN WILSON.
Adrian Wilson FROM?!?! High Point, NC. This guy never gets his due. He's like Aeneas Williams. Won't appreciate him until his career is over. Williams was one of the best CBs ever and Wilson, while not one of the best safeties ever, IS playing like it this year. He is a ballhawk. He plays at the line in the box like a linebacker at 6'3" 230 lbs and has the coverage skills to cover anyone on the field.
2. DARREN SHARPER.
Gets by on guile alone and makes it look easy in the process.
3. BRANDON MERIWEATHER.
FROM?! The U. He is another in the long line of great secondary players from the University of Miami. A ballhawk (like all the others from that school) and plays bump and run like some of the greats from the 90s like Troy Vincent, Sam Madison, Bobby Taylor and Pat Surtain.
4. TROY POLAMALU
The stark difference ALONE between the way the Steelers play on defense when he's in the lineup versus when he is not is enough to have him here.
5. ED REED.
The best ballhawk maybe ever. That is the only reason he is here, because he is the Deion Sanders of tackling. But INTTDs are game-changing like TD passes and 57 yard punt returns, so he belongs.
Honorable Mention: Kerry Rhodes, Quintin Mikell, Brian Dawkins.
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