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PFW ranks the greatest jersey numbers in Patriots history
How do you select the greatest numbers in Patriots history? Does having three or four good players wearing a number top one great one? PFW tries to sort it all out with our top-10 list of the greatest numbers in team history.
A pair of terrific third-down backs in Tony Collins and Kevin Faulk plus an all-time favorite fullback in Sam Gash.
Hall of Famer Mike Haynes can carry a number by himself but versatile RB Larry Garron also donned the number in the 1960s.
Mr. Patriot is the poster boy for No. 80 but don't forget about Don Hasselbeck and Irving Fryar.
All-World TE Russ Francis shared his number with Jim Colclough, Stephen Starring and even Randy Moss.
Perhaps the most versatile number in team history, 32 has been the choice of Andy Johnson, Craig James, Willie Clay, Antowain Smith and current Pro Bowler Devin McCourty.
The number of choice for TEs Lin Dawson, Ben Coates and Rob Gronkowski as well as the underrated David Givens.
Defensive standouts Nick Buoniconti and Julius Adams donned 85, as did TEs Marv Cook, Jermaine Wiggins and Aaron Hernandez.
John Hannah - need we say more?
Only three players have worn 56 and two of them - Andre Tippett and Jon Morris - are in the Patriots Hall of Fame.
Sometimes individual greatness trumps all else and Tom Brady certainly does.
