[yukmunky]

The running back rankings are about perfect(Brown,Payton,Sanders,Smith), although I might even put Sanders ahead of Payton. If you are relying on stats or rings to determine that Emmitt was betten than Payton, you simply must have never watched Walter Payton in his hayday. He put up HOF numbers with zero help for almost the entire prime of his career. But if you want to look at stats, even with perhaps the best offensive line ever, Emmitt had a lower YPC average for his career than Payton. Payton was able to do this because he had the whole package as a RB (speed, power, elusiveness).

The Favre omission is a rather big one though.