Years: 1938, 1940-41
Teams: Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Lions
College: Colorado
The fourth overall pick in the 1938 draft, White led the NFL in rushing as a rookie. That year, for the 2-9 Pirates, White carried the ball 152 times for 567 yards and scored seven touchdowns. He even had an incredible 79-yard touchdown run and an intereption that nearly led the team to a win over Philadelphia.
White chose to pursue a Rhodes Scholarship but returned from Oxford in 1940 to again lead the NFL in yards and carries, this time for the Detroit Lions.
But with America's involvement in World War II, White joined the Navy and became an intelligence officer, winning a pair of Bronze Stars.
When he returned from the Pacific, he attended Yale Law School, graduating magna cum laude. A decade-and-a-half later, White was named to the U.S. Supreme Court by fellow Navy man John F. Kennedy.
He spent 31 years on the bench, presiding over such important cases as Gideon vs. Wainwright, Roe vs. Wade, and Miranda vs. Arizona.
White retired in 1993 and passed away in 2002, but was one of the most respected jurists of the 20th century and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.
