The best NFL players from Oklahoma State are fairly easy to pick. Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas.
The college-teammate tailbacks went on to Pro Football Hall of Fame careers, Sanders in 10 years with the Lions and Thomas in 13 seasons with the Bills. Sanders is considered among the top three or four greatest running backs in football history, with Thomas only a rung below that.
But beyond Sanders and Thomas, who are the greatest Cowboys in NFL history? Earlier this week, I ran a list of the greatest Sooners in the NFL, using profootball-reference.com’s career approximately value tool, which measures seasons in a variety of ways, then computes the career totals with 100 percent of his best season, 95 percent of his next-best season, 90 percent of his third-best season, etc.