All-Time Greatest Jet: Don Maynard vs. Sauce Gardner

[Edgy MD]

I like when we get head-to-head contest of guys who face each other on the field — wide receivers vs. cornerbacks or offensive tackles vs. defensive ends, and the like.

Don Maynard	Sauce Gardner
WR	CB
1960–1972	2022–Present
Four-time Pro-Bowler (1965, 1967–1969). First- Team All-Pro (1969). Three-time Second-Team All- Pro (1965, 1967–1968). Sixth in voting for 1968 UPI AFL Player of the Year. Sixth in voting for 1969 AP AFL Player of the Year. Five seasons with over 1,000 receiving yards. Led league once (1967) in receiving yards, once (1965) in touchdown catches, once (1968) in yards/reception, and twice 1967– 1968) in receiving yards per game. Super Bowl III Champion. Pro-Football Hall of Famer (1987). Jets Ring of Honor. Number 13 retired by Jets. All-Time AFL Team member.	AP Defensive Rookie of the Year (2022), Eighth in voting for AP Defensive Player of the Year (2022). First-team All-Pro (2022). Pro-Bowler (2022). Led league in passes defended by a defensive player (2022), which is a apparently a thing, and has been since 1999.
Played a single season in the NFL in 1958, allowing him to be a rare player to not only participate in Super Bowl III, but also to take part in the 1958 NFL championship, also known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played," in which he returned two kicks and recovered a fumble. He then played a year in the CFL before becoming a Titan/Jet.	Has partnered with Buffalo Wild Wings to endorse a sweet and spicy barbecue sauce known as "Sauce Sauce."

[MFS62]

Maynard is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Gardner isn't ... yet.
When both careers are over, this maybe a really tough question, but not now.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Happy to find out that 'Sauce' is not his given name.

[Edgy MD]

Unfortunately, Snacks Harrison (DT, 2012–2015) ended up on the wrong side of the bubble.