Best all around athlete position in Pro Football (NFL).???

Question

Position..not player.....like QB or FS....Factors are speed, strength, agility, mental strength, leadership qualities, importance to the team.
I say Middle Linebacker because you must take on a huge stonge O-line man straight on and stuff him in the hole... Then you must be able to cover a reciever in pass coverage, then you must be able to run down a speedy back on the corner. They are also the craziest and most dominating players. They must be strong enough to stuff a guard in the hole and run down a running back on the corner....

Answer 1

Not necessarily middle linebacker, but any linebacker position. The linebacker position requires leadership, speed, strength, coverage skills, hard hitting, breaking down plays for your team, agility, emotional leadership and strength, and most importantly the MAN OF THE TEAM!

Answer 2

From an athletic perspective, playing cornerback is the most difficult position to play (in football). You're right, linebackers take on 300-pound linemen on one play then cover shifty running backs, who run sub 4.4. forties, on the next. But linebackers have more help than corners: if the back or receiver gets away from the linebacker, he has to get past the "last line of defense." But when Terrell Owens or Steve Smith or Marvin Harrison--whom a cornerback faces on EVERY play--gets by the corner, he almost always has far less help.

There are superior athletes at every position, but with the possible exception of wide receiver, I think the cornerback position has the most superior athletes. On each play they're matched up mano-a-mano against world-class athletes with world-class speed ... with little help behind them.

Answer 3

I would have to say free safety. They make the defensive set calls in the cover 2 scheme. They have to have the speed to cover a reciever or a back. They have to have the strength to fight off a block on a blitz. They must come up to stop the run at times. Often, they are the last line of defence. They need hitting power and leaping ability. The best MLB in the league now, Brian Urlacher started out as a safety, so what does that tell you?

Answer 4

I think you are on the right track.
I feel on the defensive side, MLB is the team general and field commander. His job intails several facets depending on what the offense throws his way.
On the offensive side, I am a bit torn between QB and RB. The QB is the commander of the offense, but the RB has potentially more to do. A RB can block, carry, catch and pass (see LT).
All that said, I think the RB needs to be most athletic.

Answer 5

Athlete position? i gotta go with the Kicker i mean they got power atleast there legs do they tackle they run they jump i mean any 1 ever took a slow mo replay to there kicks the get higher than lebron james does when he's dunking,and alot of them can secretly throw

Answer 6

RB. 99.9% of the plays they are in on.. They are hit in some way or another... By, generally speaking... Someone who is alot bigger then them. They have to be fast, agile, have great vison, think fast, catch, know blocking schemes, adjust when holes aren't there.. And have indurance. In my opinion.. again, It's the RB

Answer 7

The Center ..... He's the real Qb on the field has to call pass blocking schemes, read the defense's for bliztes, remember the snap count, and has to take a pounding each play while hiking the ball. All the qualities you are looking for and then some..

Answer 8

I would say free safety you must be fast strong decent hands,must be able to break down every pass play so you gotta have a brain and good intuition of the game.

Answer 9

Tight End. They have to block as well as a lineman yet be able to catch and run with the ball like a running back.

Answer 10

Tight End