25 Players in 25 Years: Kevin Harlan on Nos. 7-4

NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Gregg Rosenthal is joined by broadcasting legend Kevin Harlan to reveal numbers 7 through 4 of NFL Daily's Top 25 Players of the Last 25 Years. Gregg and Kevin kick off this tier of players with Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Ed Reed at number 7 (01:42), quarterback Aaron Rodgers at number 6 (16:30), defensive end J.J. Watt at number 5 (38:03), and wrap the show with defensive lineman Aaron Donald and number 4 (50:52).

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Don't miss any of NFL Daily's Top 25 Players of the Last 25 Years where Gregg is joined by ESPN's Mina Kimes and Bill Barnwell, Yahoo! Sports' Nate Tice, NFL Network's Steve Wyche and Brian Baldinger and broadcasting legend Kevin Harlan to break down the best NFL players since the turn of the century.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:06.8	Welcome to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years.
0:14.7	Yes, this is episode five of our six-part series going through all the greats of the 21st century.
0:22.6	And we've talked with some great guests.
0:25.6	But this time, we're actually going to have one of the greats of the last 25 years on the show
0:31.6	to go through players number 7 through 4.
0:36.6	And I'm talking about Kevin Harlan.
0:39.7	When we decided to do this, Kevin, you were the first name we thought of in terms of
0:46.3	who has announced more of these games, who has helped us enjoy the game more than Kevin
0:53.9	Harlan.
0:54.4	He's been broadcasting the NFL for 40 years.
0:58.4	National broadcaster of the year three times.
1:01.9	I would have given it to him more.
1:02.8	I feel like he was snubbed a few times there.
1:04.5	Also, NBA on TNT.
1:06.3	Of course, he wrapped up that great run there in the NBA playoffs welcome Kevin appreciate having you
1:13.6	thank you for your kind words great great to be on flattered you to ask me and it's uh it's NFL
1:19.4	season 365 a year it never goes away and thank goodness it doesn't no it doesn't this is
1:26.2	basically the dead time of the year,
1:28.1	and yet people we've heard, like, they want more this time of year. So we're giving it to them
1:32.0	and we're doing something that I love to do, which is talking about some of the greats of the game.
1:37.3	And as you might have heard, Kevin, we've already gone through a lot of our list. So you're
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