Deion Sanders won a Super Bowl with two teams- the San Francisco 49ers (XXIX) and Dallas Cowboys (XXX), but he did not win a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens.
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The Atlanta Falcons drafted Sanders with the fifth pick of the 1989 NFL draft.
Sanders proved himself ready from the start, returning a 68-yard punt against the Los Angeles Rams in his first NFL game. Sanders carried that excellence through the subsequent 14 years of his career in the league, racking up numerous awards in the process.
Sanders appeared in eight Pro Bowls. He earned nine consecutive first-team All-Pro selections as a cornerback, from 1991 to 1999.
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Sanders also earned first-team All-Pro selections as a kick returner and a punt returner. In 1994, he took home the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award.
During one season, Sanders became one of the very few players in history to play both offense and defense.
Sanders also holds the impressive distinction of being the only player to score a touchdown in six different ways: punt return, interception return, kickoff return, rushing, receiving, and fumble recovery.
He is the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.
Born on August 9, 1967 as Deion Luywnn Sanders, the former football and baseball player was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
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