At Auburn Bo ran for 4,303 yards and scored 43 touchdowns in the regular season. His senior year of college he had four 200 yard games on his way to 1,786 rushing yards which earned him the Heisman Trophy.
On the baseball team was his junior season when he batted .401 and hit 17 homeruns and 43 RBI in only 42 games!
His invitation to the 1989 All Star game and the 1990 Pro Bowl made him the first athlete in history to be an All Star in both the MLB and NFL
He also ran a 4.12 40 yard dash, still considered the fastest verifiable 40 time at an NFL Combine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But forget all these stats - if you ever saw bo jackson play football or baseball you would know why I feel he is the best ever. He would smash towering homeruns literally out of the ballpark. He could run a 90 yd touchdowns which would display how fast he was to match how strong he was. He would catch baseballs with his bare hands while jumping or running up baseball stadium walls robbing hitters from homeruns. THink of the modern day adrian peterson who is considered the best running back in todays NFL game. THis was Bo back in the day only faster and stronger and to balance an NFL career with a Baseball Career. The only reason he is not considered the best by many espn polls, etc is that his career was short lived due to a career ending hip injury where he decided to try to run over a defender rather than run out of bounds on a random NFL afternoon.
Bo Jackson was hands down the best athlete ever.
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