Who Are the Best Athletes to Come From an HBCU? We Found a Few

The epitome of a “dual threat” QB, McNair threw for over 5,000 yards his senior year at Alcorn State and rushed for nearly 1,000. When the Houston Oilers drafted him with the No. 3 pick in the 1995 NFL Draft, it made McNair the highest selection of a Black quarterback in NFL history. McNair’s career took off after the franchise moved to Tennessee and eventually became the Tennessee Titans, leading the team to within a yard of a Super Bowl Championship in 1999 and winning the MVP award in 2003.

Sadly, McNair was shot and killed by a woman in a muder-suicide on July 4, 2009.