Best college football players of all time from every state

New Hampshire – Greg Landry

A native of Lashua, New Hampshire, Greg Landry gets the call-up as the greatest college football player ever born in the Granite State, which ranks as the No. 46 state in land area, and No. 42 in population. Due likely to size, New Hampshire doesn’t have a program in the country’s top level, and hasn’t since 1977, easing the path for Landry.

Landry was a dual-threat gunslinger for the University of Massachusetts and was the main pass thrower for the Minutemen in his three seasons as the team’s starter. Likely the most impressive feature that Landry adds to this fact is that he also led the team in rushing in two of his three seasons.

Massachusetts won Yankee Conference titles in two of his three seasons with the Minutemen, and Landry played well enough to, despite the size of his program and conference, be drafted as the No. 11 player in the 1968 NFL Draft, the first quarterback coming off the board.

He was a two-time All-Yankee Conference team member, who would go on to play at football’s top level, even setting a couple of passing records along the way, before becoming a coach and coordinator at both the college and NFL level. He was a Pro Bowl player in 1971 and was First-Team All-Pro that same year.