Defense
| Position | First Team | Votes | Hall of Fame? | Second Team | Votes | Hall of Fame? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defensive end | Reggie White* | 22 | Yes | Lee Roy Selmon* | 3 | Yes |
| Howie Long* | 21 | Yes | Bruce Smith* | 3 | Yes | |
| Defensive tackle | Randy White* | 22 | Yes | Keith Millard | 7 | No |
| Dan Hampton* | 12 | Yes | Dave Butz | 3 | No | |
| Middle linebacker | Mike Singletary* | 21½ | Yes | Jack Lambert* | 4 | Yes |
| Outside linebacker | Lawrence Taylor* | 26 | Yes | Andre Tippett* | 6 | Yes |
| Ted Hendricks* | 18 | Yes | Carl Banks | 1 | No | |
| John Anderson | 1 | No | ||||
| Cornerback | Mike Haynes* | 13 | Yes | Frank Minnifield | 7 | No |
| Mel Blount* | 9 | Yes | Lester Hayes | 4 | 4 time finalist | |
| Safety | Ronnie Lott* | 23 | Yes | Deron Cherry | 5 | No |
| Kenny Easley | 11 | No | Nolan Cromwell | 4 | No | |
| Joey Browner | 4 | No |
Read more about this topic: National Football League 1980s All-Decade Team
Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
—Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)
“... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
—Barry Goldwater (b. 1909)