I’m not gonna sit here and pretend that Ravens Flock doesn’t know who Ed Reed is, but just in case someone reading this is unaware… Ed Reed is the greatest safety to ever play the game of football. Ronnie Lott is the only safety I would even listen to an argument for, but Reed has more than a respectable resume to his name for this claim.
Reed was never the tackling machine that other safeties such as Lott or Steve Atwater were, but there was something that Reed was simply better at than any other safety in NFL history: his ball-skills.