Kent Hull

So many great NFL players never get to a playoff game in their career. Others are so much more fortunate.

Former Buffalo Bills center Kent Hull anchored the line of the Jim Kelly offense that went to four Super Bowls and lost all of them, including one when Bill Belichick was with the Bill Parcell Giants team.

The former USFL player only missed two Sundays in an eleven year career with 189 games from 1986-1996. He had three Pro Bowl appearances from 1989-1991 and was inducted to the Bill's Wall of Fame in 2002.

He passed away on Tuesday, October 18th from intestinal in his hometown of Greenwood, Mississippi where he ran a family farm. He loved his spread of 2,500 acres and 700 head of cattle.

He is another example of a former player from another era that suddenly dies.

The game is played and experienced in the present.The players we watch today will age like Hull did. Hopefully, the trend of NFL players with early death will decrease when they get his age.