The Best Baseball-Football Talents Over The Last 40 Years

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Baseball America founder Allan Simpson provides a sampling of the best combined baseball-football talents, listed by draft year.

1978: Kirk Gibson
1979: John Elway, Jay Schroeder
1982: Bo Jackson, Kenny Williams, Kevin Murray 
1983: D.J. Dozier
1984: Rodney Peete
1986: Greg McMurtry
1988: Deion Sanders, Brian Jordan
1992: Shea Morenz, John Lynch
1994: Josh Booty
1995: Ricky Williams, Darin Erstad
1998: Chad Hutchinson, Drew Henson, Adam Dunn
2000: Joe Borchard, Chris Weinke
2001: Roscoe Crosby, Joe Mauer, Cedric Benson
2006: Jake Locker, Jeff Samardzija
2007: Russell Wilson
2009: Donavan Tate
2011: Bubba Starling
2012: Anthony Alford, Jameis Winston
2014: Patrick Mahomes
2018: Kyler Murray