25 Players in 25 Years: Mina Kimes on Nos. 25-21
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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Summary
Gregg Rosenthal is joined by ESPN's Mina Kimes to reveal numbers 25 through 21 of NFL Daily's Top 25 Players of the Last 25 Years. Gregg and Mina start the list with Kansas City Chiefs TE Travis Kelce (02:59), followed by Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Terrell Owens at number 24 (13:20), Pittsburgh Steelers OLB T.J. Watt at number 23 (22:59), Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Walter Jones at number 22 (32:05), and Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson at number 21 (41:05).
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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. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years. |
| 0:14.0 | Yes, this is the first episode. |
| 0:15.5 | It's going to be a six-part series that I'm really excited about, |
| 0:19.6 | and there is no one I would rather start the |
| 0:22.2 | series with than my friend, Mina Kimes of ESPN. This is a big responsibility, Mina, taking the first |
| 0:30.5 | episode. Hello, I'm excited to do this. The players that are in this bunch are great. This is a great group. I mean, |
| 0:38.9 | they're all great. That's the general premise of this entire thing. But they're really fun players |
| 0:43.1 | to talk about. So I'm particularly excited to be 25 through 21. Yeah, a couple things I noticed |
| 0:48.6 | putting the list together. It's backloaded. Like the current players are more towards the back. |
| 0:52.9 | Don't blame Mina or any of the future guests that are coming on the show. It is my list, but they're coming on to give their impressions. And we have a lot of great guests. Kevin Harlan is going to be on the show coming up. Your buddy, Nate Tice, Brian Baldinger, Steve Weish. It's going to be really great. Just a couple little ground rules, though, for the listeners out there, if they're curious. |
| 1:12.5 | It was more about sustained greatness over like a three to five year period, was like where I started. |
| 1:19.4 | Like, you're not going to be on this list if you only had one or two great years. That's almost a prerequisite. |
| 1:25.3 | But it wasn't about longevity to me. It was like, who was the very best? And maybe |
| 1:30.6 | longevity is a little bit of a tiebreaker. Do you think that's like a fair way to do it? Yeah, I do. |
| 1:37.3 | I mean, we're talking about, especially when you're talking about top 25. It's tough, man. Yeah, |
| 1:43.1 | you're going to have to make some really difficult cuts. And you're going to have to set guidelines, I think, around, like, it's kind of like when we do general debates over, like, who's the greatest of all time? You have to take longevity into account. You can't just be like a guy at his peak. I actually think the player you're starting with is a great. |
| 2:01.9 | He really is. |
| 2:02.8 | He really is perfect fodder for this exact question and this exact debate |
| 2:06.2 | because there's another player who he's constantly compared to, |
| 2:09.6 | who I think is probably also on your list. |
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