Remaking a new topic from years ago. Look let me get this straight, some NFL athletes are absurdly insane in athleticism. No one is beating Tyreek Hill in terms of explosiveness and speed. But am I wrong to say, that NBA players have the higher ceiling? Like if money and long term health weren’t a concern, if NBA players focused on training their bodies on prepping for football, their ceiling would be so much higher. Instead of Kyle Pitts we have KD at tight-end on the falcons, instead of Megatron on the Lions we have LeBron James on the Browns, 3 inches taller. I’m not saying they WOULD be better. But they have the POTENTIAL to be better, their ceiling is higher. Apparently this is a wild take. NBA players are tall, fast, and leap as high as a lot of NFL players.
It terms of pure athletes, NFL players are the best in the world end of story. I think NBA players have a lot more finesse and maybe skill but theres no doubt NFL guys are the best athletes
KD at tight-end on the falcons
You seen the hits Gronk used to take right? KD would take one hit and never get up again.
But back to the point, I think they both require very different types of athletes. For one, the NFL is a specialist sport - linemen for example do one very specific job, which requires them to be huge, wide and extremely strong and durable.
A random NFL lineman would out-lift basically any NBA player in history in squat, deadlift and bench - but would have nowhere near the vertical or speed as your average NBA player. Obviously there are outliers to this, your freak athletes and so on.
Very hard to compare completely different sports.
It’s entirely different. Highest paid players in the NFL are quarterbacks and none of them are even making a G league team.
I think the easiest way to look at is if a guy is good enough to play both he’s choosing the NBA everytime.
KD at tight-end on the falcons
I would hope KD has a good insurance policy cause every bone in his body would turn into dust the moment he attempted to catch a ball over the middle.
The KD example OP brought up is just baffling lol. Out of all 500 or so current NBA players who could potentially contribute to an NFL team, KD would be among the last on my list. Just the completely wrong body type. He’d get killed even as a rarely deployed red zone specialist.
Westbrook would go crazy as a halfback
NBA - less players on team (more exclusive) but most of all they play both ways