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Oct 3, 2021 · Entering the 2021 season, Tom Brady officially ranks as the oldest active player in the NFL. At 44 years old, Brady is the only current NFL player in his 40s.
- Tom Brady
- Steve Deberg
- Ben Agajanian
- John Nesser
- Gary Anderson
- Bobby Marshall
- John Carney
- Adam Vinatieri
- Morten Andersen
- George Blanda
Brady joined this list in Week 3 of the 2021 season against the Los Angeles Rams, which ironically is the same team it looked like he would end his career against. When the Rams beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneersin the Divisional Round, he was 44 years, five months, and 20 days old. Related: Ranking the 10 Best Seasons of Tom Brady's Career Not too long...
The journeyman quarterback played primarily as a backup for 21 seasons with six different teams. In 1998, he was second-string to Falcons quarterback Chris Chandler, who suffered a bruised left shoulder and ribs against the Saints in week seven and was unable to play the next game with the Jets. At 44 years, nine months, and six days, DeBerg became...
Agajanian had four toes in his kicking foot crushed in a work accident in college but persevered to play for nine different professional football teams. In his last season, he kicked for the AFL's San Diego Chargers in 1964 and was 45 years, three months, and 29 days old when the team lost the league championship 20-7 to the Buffalo Bills.
Nesser played lineman for the Columbus Panhandles in the 1910s and was still on the squad when it helped form the NFL in 1919. He was 45 years, four months, and 17 days old when he played his final game with the team in 1921.
The first South African to play in an NFL regular-season game kicked for 23 seasons with five different teams. When he played his last game with the Titans in 2005 at 45 years, five months, and 17 days, Anderson held the career records for points scored and field goals made.
One of the first Black players in the NFL played end for three different teams in the first six years of the league's existence. He finished his career playing for the Duluth Kelleys in 1925 at 45 years, seven months, and 20 days.
The veteran placekicker signed with the Buccaneers in 1987 and is one of only two players in NFL history to play in four different decades. On Oct. 3, 2010, the 46-year-and-nine-day-old Carney booted three field goals as the Saints beat the Panthers, 16-14. The Saints released him two days later, and he did not sign with another team.
The NFL's all-time leader in points scored, postseason points scored, field goals made, and overtime field goals made would also become its oldest player if he plays in week one of the 2021 season. Given that he is currently unsigned, it is unclear if that will happen.
One of two primary placekickers to be inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Andersen had the most accurate season of his career in 2007, making 25-of-28 field goals. However, he was not signed by any team in 2008 and waited until December 8 to retire. Had he played on or after Dec. 6, 2008, he would have topped this list. Instead, he is second...
The irony is that pro football's grand old man retired from the Bears after a 10-season career in 1958 because head coach George Halas only wanted to use him as kicker. He came out of retirement in 1960 to play both quarterback and placekicker for the AFL's Houston Oilers and won two league titles. After signing with the Oakland Raiders in 1967, Bl...
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Mar 4, 2024 · At 45 years old, quarterback Tom Brady is by far the oldest player in the NFL, five years older than the next oldest player. Also on the list of oldest football players are QBs Joe Flacco Brees and Aaron Rodgers and kickers Matt Prater and Mason Crosby.
May 3, 2024 · Who Is Tom Brady? American football player Tom Brady won a record seven Super Bowl championships as a former NFL quarterback. Drafted by the New England Patriots in 2000, Brady won three...
George Frederick Blanda (September 17, 1927 – September 27, 2010) was an American football quarterback and placekicker who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).
Oct 30, 2022 · George Blanda holds the record as the oldest man to ever play in the NFL, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Blanda was a quarterback and placekicker who retired in 1976 at the age of...
Aug 28, 2023 · Here's a look at the oldest NFL players of all time — including some quarterbacks who played within the shadow of their 50th birthday. Some of these guys you probably already know pretty well, and some of them you are probably hearing of for the first time ... all of them legends.
