Has Ed Oliver had the most successful NFL Career out of any UH football player?

Hogan Wharton was an All American OL in 1958. Do you know how hard it was for a UH player to get recognition in the 1950s?

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he wasv the center on the bballb team too

Love Hogan and if there is a thread for greatest professional wrestler he would be it. But Seabass is the choice for best professional OL.

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I agree with the pro careers, but just wanted to remind everyone how good Hogan was in college.

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Hogan was terrific. So was Maceo Fifer.

Maceo is a dude people should talk about.

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Found this in the 1982 SI college football preview issue. Note the ‘Cougs’ reference. :roll_eyes:

Houston’s most fearsome player, 6’6", 263-pound second-team All-America Offensive Tackle Maceo Fifer, has the unfearsome nickname Bunny. His mother dressed him up as a rabbit one Halloween, and the inevitable nickname stuck. The Cougars have seven other offensive starters returning, but they still might be shy of the runners—particularly sticky-fingered runners, in view of the 39 fumbles Houston lost last season—they need to get their veer in order. Houston can count on junior Quarterback Lionel Wilson, who passed for 1,225 yards and ran for 65 more to lead the Cougs to a 7-4-1 finish. The defense, which last season ranked third nationally, giving up an average of 235.6 yards per game, has six starters back, including Cornerback Butch LaCroix, a premed senior with a 3.2 grade-point average who was No. 3 in the country with seven interceptions in 10 games.

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Fifer - from Kerrville Tivy

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There was a QB from that H.S. that went on to Texas A&M n did decent. Pro level not so much.

I don’t understand how “greatest individual” can be based on the teams success. Should be based on that particular results, not the results of the teams he played on. This would require indepth research.

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I say Simon Fletcher had the best career of UH player. Played in Denver had like 5 years of 10 plus sacks.

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I’ve always thought that many very good high school QBs, and other players, go unnoticed because they were on a really bad team and maybe had a bad coach as well. It’s much easier to show your skills behind an OL full of all-district or all-state linemen and throwing to good receivers.

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That’s why I emphasized pro bowls and all pro selections.

They are the best indicators of who was considered best at their positions during their NFL careers.

Odoms with four pro bowls and Anders with three are tops there.

Brezina and Vollmer were pro bowlers as well.

Fletcher was not.

Cam Ward


I’ll remember ‘little Eddie’ for what he wasn’t.