Recorded answers
2,710 recorded answers
How to approach it
The workable method is to move sport by sport instead of chasing a single lucky memory. Pick one of the four careers, walk through its seasons in order, and for each stop recall two or three squad members who were never the headline: the reserve who filled in for a month, the veteran signed for depth, the youngster given a handful of minutes. Write those names down as they come, then repeat the sweep for the other three careers, because the overlap between a football dressing room and an American one is almost nil and each sport needs its own pass. Only after that list feels exhausted should you check the marginal cases, such as short loans, mid-season trades and tournament squads, where a connection of a few weeks still counts.
Get a hint
Start with the biggest squads you can recall from the last two decades and work backwards: club seasons, franchise rosters and national-team camps all supply names.
A little more
Narrow by role rather than fame: back-up goalkeepers, rotational bigs, special-teams specialists and one-cap internationals are the richest vein, because they shared a dressing room without ever being the story.
One step further
Aim for the edges of a roster, such as a single season, a short loan, a practice-squad promotion or a late substitute appearance, since those bit-part connections are the ones most people never think to say.
Reveal answers 2,710
- Blaine GabbertDeep Cut85points
- Blaise MatuidiDeep Cut85points
- Blake GriffinDeep Cut85points
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- Blidi Wreh-WilsonDeep Cut85points
- Bo RuudDeep Cut85points
- Bob FraumannDeep Cut85points
- Bobby CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Bobby HamiltonDeep Cut85points
- Borja LópezDeep Cut85points
- Borja MayoralDeep Cut85points
- Brad CostelloDeep Cut85points
- Brad HermanDeep Cut85points
- Brad MillerDeep Cut85points
- Brad SeatonDeep Cut85points
- Bradley FletcherDeep Cut85points
- Bradley PinionDeep Cut85points
- Brandon BoldenDeep Cut85points
- Brandon BrownerDeep Cut85points
- Brandon DeaderickDeep Cut85points
- Brandon DixonDeep Cut85points
- Brandon GibsonDeep Cut85points
- Brandon GorinDeep Cut85points
- Brandon KingDeep Cut85points
- Brandon KornblueDeep Cut85points
- Brandon LaFellDeep Cut85points
- Brandon LloydDeep Cut85points
- Brandon McGowanDeep Cut85points
- Brandon MeriweatherDeep Cut85points
- Brandon MitchellDeep Cut85points
- Brandon SpikesDeep Cut85points
- Brandon TateDeep Cut85points
- Brandon WaltonDeep Cut85points
- Brandon WeemsDeep Cut85points
- Brandon WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Braxston CaveDeep Cut85points
- Braxton BerriosDeep Cut85points
- Brendan HaywoodDeep Cut85points
- Brennan WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Brent CummingsDeep Cut85points
- Brent WashingtonDeep Cut85points
- Breshad PerrimanDeep Cut85points
- Bret LockettDeep Cut85points
- Brett RatliffDeep Cut85points
- Brian BarthelmesDeep Cut85points
- Brian GlasperDeep Cut85points
- Brian GrieseDeep Cut85points
- Brian HoyerDeep Cut85points
- Brian KinchenDeep Cut85points
- Brian SchwenkeDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here follows obscurity, not fame. The single hundred-point return came from a name almost nobody outside one special-teams unit would reach for: Nate Ebner, a rugby convert who spent years covering kicks alongside a certain quarterback. Everything in the long middle of the table sits at eighty-five, and that band is enormous, with A. Q. Shipley, Aaron Dobson, Adalius Thomas, Akiem Hicks and Alan Branch all landing there; the common thread is that each was a genuine squad member rather than a marquee name. The sixty-point band is where the obvious names end up, the stars whose link to one of the four is common knowledge and therefore cheap. That gradient is deliberate. A puzzle of this shape has thousands of legitimate answers, so the only way to reward skill is to pay for recall depth. Anyone can name a fellow icon; the points go to the player who remembers the third-string guard, the loanee with four appearances or the special-teamer whose career lasted two seasons.