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Ranking the NFL's Best Home Run Threats

Selecting football's top home run threats sounds like a slam dunk. But if we're not careful, we'll get knocked out in the first round.

Yep, we're really mixing the metaphors. That's because there are all kinds of NFL playmakers: sideline sprinters, shifty open-field jitterbugs, jump-ball acrobats, backfield battering rams and All-Pros who are great at just about everything.

A "home run" can be a 50-yard bomb, a kickoff return, a screen pass gone wild, a Hail Mary in the corner of the end zone or a simple inside handoff that turns into a track meet.