Barry Sanders
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Unquestionably one of the five greatest running backs of all time (if not higher), Barry Sanders is near the top of the list of “greatest NFL players to never play in the Super Bowl.” Despite averaging just under 100 yards rushing in every single regular season game he played in, Sanders and his Detroit Lions always seemed to find a way to come up short in the postseason, especially with teams keying on stopping him and forcing the Lions’ generally below-average quarterbacks to beat them instead.
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In the six postseason games in which Sanders played, he averaged less than 65 yards rushing (including one game where he had 13 carries for -1 yards), and had a grand total of only one rushing or receiving touchdown.
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