Who are the top 10 players without a Super Bowl ring? - ESPN

Every NFL player has the same goal: win a Super Bowl ring.

But football is the ultimate team sport, and with the exception of maybe someone such as Tom Brady, it's hard for one player to will his team over the championship finish line. In the NFL today, active players such as Baltimore Ravens' Calais Campbell (19th season) and New Orleans Saints' Cameron Jordan (16th season) are still chasing a Super Bowl ring. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (ninth season) has taken his team to the AFC Championship Game twice in eight tries and ran into Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs dynasty both times.

How hard is it to win a Super Bowl? We ranked 10 of the best retired players who played at least half their careers in the Super Bowl era but never won a ring. Some of them made multiple appearances in the big game and came up just short, while others never made it beyond the conference championship. The methodology, which utilized Pro Football reference approximate values, included ESPN analyzing the statistics and intangibles of players in the Super Bowl era who didn't win a ring and put together a list ranking the best of the best.

Here are 10 of the best players in NFL history who finished their careers without a Super Bowl win. Let's start with a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback who spent his career with the Miami Dolphins.

COUNTDOWN TO SUPER BOWL LXI: ESPN will televise the Super Bowl for the first time in February. We are counting down to the big game with a Super Bowl Top 10 series — featuring rankings on everything from best catches and performances to biggest upsets — that will run every other Sunday leading up to Super Bowl LXI on Feb. 14, 2027.

Teams played for: Miami Dolphins (1983-99)

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