It’s not often you get to be around greatness. For Ryan Clark, he spent most of his career not just teammates with a Hall of Famer but standing right alongside him. But it’s no bias for Clark to call Troy Polamalu one of the five-greatest safeties in NFL history, including him in that illustrious list during his episode on All Things Covered.
Bryant McFadden and Patrick Peterson tasked Clark to come up with his top-five safeties of all-time. Given the difficulty of comparing players, free versus strong safeties, and eras, Clark didn’t list the names in order.