All-Time Greatest Jet: Mickey Shuler vs. Marvin Powell
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 1:08 pm
The contest that no one wanted gives us two guys who were almost exact contemporaries, often playing side by side.
| Mickey Shuler | Marvin Powell |
 |  |
| TE | OT |
| 1978–1989 | 1977–1985 |
| Two-time Second-team All-Pro (1986, 1988). Two- time Pro-Bowler (1986, 1988). New York Jets All- Time Four Decade Team. Second in team history in consecutive games with a reception (86) and second in most touchdowns in a game (three). Third all-time in total receptions. | Two-time First-Team All-Pro (1979, 1982). Second- team All-Pro (1980). Five(!)-time Pro Bowler (1979–1983). He was part of the 1979 line that blocked for a backfield that led the league in rushing despite a star-free corps of Clark Gaines, Kevin Long, Scott Dierking, Bruce Harper, and Tom Newton, before blocking for Freeman McNeil the first seven years of his career. |
| His son, Mickey, Jr., followed his career path, playing tight end at Penn State, and going on to the NFL with the Vikings. | Worked during his career to earn his JD from New York Law School (1987) and after his career, went to work for the Beverly Hills law firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer, & Susman. |