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Wendell Tyler is my choice.
Younger fans know nothing about this guy because his time with the Rams was before their time. He was a star RB at UCLA (ughh!), and he was uber talented. He was so good in many ways as a RB, but for me it was all undone by his tendency to swing his arm wide with the football out in space. I know it helped him to maintain balance, but I remember watching that swinging football arm as he wound through defenders.I would scream at the TV for him to tuck the d@mn football in! But he rarely did. It may have seemed to happen more than it actually did, but I know it happened more than once: Tyler would be in the midst of a spectacular run, and it was like a nightmare-slow-motion sequence where I see the defender coming and I knew he would hit that arm and dislodge the football. I was a kid at the time and I would scream in agony when he did this.
Maybe another scary choice is for a guy outside of the football field, which was Lawrence Phillips