Randall Wade Cunningham Sr. is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for 16 seasons. He spent the majority of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles and is also known for his Minnesota Vikings tenure.
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Who is better Michael Vick or Randall Cunningham?
Though they arrived in the NFL to different levels of fanfare and expectations, both Cunningham and Vick took some time to acclimate to the pace of pro football before being fully unleashed and terrorizing opposing defenses with both their arms and their legs.
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When he arrived as a freshman at UNLV, Cunningham was not a particularly heralded college recruit, though, by his junior and senior years, he would become a College Football All-American, albeit at punter (Cunningham would actually end up punting occasionally in the NFL and will forever be remembered for his booming 91-yard punt vs. the New York Giants in 1989).
Though he was highly sought after by the Tampa Bay Bandits of the upstart United States Football League (USFL), they would ultimately fold and the Philadelphia Eagles would draft Cunningham with the 37th overall pick in the second round of the 1985 NFL Draft.
In comparison to Cunningham, Vick was one of the biggest stars in college football at Virginia Tech. As a redshirt freshman in 1999, he led the Hokies to a perfect 11-0 regular season record and into the BCS National Championship Game, where they would lose to the Florida State Seminoles; that year, Vick led the NCAA in passing efficiency and would win the ESPY Award for the best college football player, the first-ever Archie Griffin Award as NCAA MVP, and finish third in the Heisman voting behind Ron Dayne and Joe Hamilton
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