10 college football players that scared the crap out of us

Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh (93) and Larry Asante (4) tackle Texas's Tre' Newton (23) during Big 12 Championship Game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, December 5, 2009. (Photo by Richard W. Rodriguez/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh (93) and Larry Asante (4) tackle Texas's Tre' Newton (23) during Big 12 Championship Game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, December 5, 2009. (Photo by Richard W. Rodriguez/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) /
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UNDATED: Running back Bo Jackson #34 of the Auburn University Tigers moves the ball with his teammates against the Florida Gators during the 1980’s. (Photo by Focus on Sport via Getty Images) /

10. Bo Jackson

What’s the one thing you don’t want coming after you inside of this asylum that you now find yourself trapped in? Is it a masked man with a chainsaw or a butcher knife? Is it a serial killer from your dreams with knives on his hands? Whatever scares you, you prefer it to move slowly.

One thing is for sure, you don’t want something coming at you with 4.12 40-yard dash speed, sprinting down the dark moon-lit hallway of that abandoned asylum. Bo Jackson had that speed and was equally terrifying on the gridiron.

His speed and agility are notorious for breaking ankles, and embarrassing even the nation’s best defensive stars are some of the traits you really don’t want to face on any type of football field or a dark hallway.

Jackson ran for 1,786 yards in his 1985 Heisman Trophy-winning season, and as one of the fastest to ever grace the gridiron, earns his spot among one of the scariest players in college football history, perhaps simply because his shiftiness and ability to find open space could terrify even the most stingy of defenses.