Defense
| Position | Player | Team(s) played for | College | Hall of Famer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defensive end | Doug Atkins* | Chicago Bears New Orleans Saints |
Tennessee | Yes |
| Willie Davis* | Green Bay Packers | Grambling State | Yes | |
| David "Deacon" Jones* | Los Angeles Rams | South Carolina State | Yes | |
| Defensive tackle | Alex Karras | Detroit Lions | Iowa | No |
| Bob Lilly* | Dallas Cowboys | Texas Christian | Yes | |
| Merlin Olsen* | Los Angeles Rams | Utah State | Yes | |
| Linebacker | Dick Butkus* | Chicago Bears | Illinois | Yes |
| Larry Morris | Chicago Bears | Georgia Tech | No | |
| Ray Nitschke* | Green Bay Packers | Illinois | Yes | |
| Tommy Nobis | Atlanta Falcons | Texas | No | |
| Dave Robinson* | Green Bay Packers | Penn State | Yes | |
| Cornerback | Herb Adderley* | Green Bay Packers Dallas Cowboys |
Michigan State | Yes |
| Lem Barney* | Detroit Lions | Jackson State | Yes | |
| Bobby Boyd | Baltimore Colts | Oklahoma | No | |
| Safety | Eddie Meador | Los Angeles Rams | Arkansas Tech | No |
| Larry Wilson* | St. Louis Cardinals | Utah | Yes | |
| Willie Wood* | Green Bay Packers | USC | Yes |
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Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in London—he arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswell—turned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.”
—Jeffrey Hart (b. 1930)