Best player to ever wear any given number?

[daullaz]

Jerry Rice looked lonely in the 80s:

TIm Brown #81
Andre Reed #83
Shannon Sharpe #84
Lynn Swann #88 (or Michael Irvin, if you're a bigger fan of 90s football)

[daullaz]

Here are a few RBs for you:

#36 Jerome Bettis
#28 Marshall Faulk (or Curtis Martin)
#40 Gale Sayers

Another WR:
#82 John Stallworth

Some TEs:
#87 Dave Casper
#89 Mike Ditka

Linemen:
#54 Randy White
#74 Bob Lilly
#78 Anthony Munoz

If Faulk or Martin don't appeal to you, Darrell Green also wore #28.