Though Mike Florio is an admitted Pittsburgh Steelers fan who grew up watching the Steel Curtain, it’s not bias to think linebacker Jack Lambert is the toughest player in NFL history. It’s just reality. Florio listed Lambert No. 1 overall on his competing list of NFL’s toughest players alongside co-host Chris Simms.
“I’ll go with a guy that defined my era,” Florio told Simms via the NFL on NBC YouTube channel. “When I first discovered football…he was the toughest son of a gun I had ever seen.”
Considered too skinny and lanky coming out of Kent State, Lambert made up Pittsburgh’s historic 1974 NFL Draft class.