While most average people would probably pick an NBA career over the NFL if they had to choose — due to less long-term injury risk, better pay, more marketability at this point — you don’t usually hear that perspective from current or former pros. Of course, there are always exceptions and one of those is former Syracuse Orange quarterback Donovan McNabb.
He recently told TMZ Sports that assuming he could have had the same sort of success (big assumption), he’d pick basketball over football for his pro career. McNabb played for SU basketball and appeared on the 1996 Final Four team, so he had the skills to play at the Big East level at some point.