Best performances by players on a losing team?

[CSKreager]

Sometimes a player can do everything as best they could and still come up short.

A few examples of this from areas of pro football we pay attention to:

QB- Tony Romo's 500 yard game in 2013 against the SB-bound 600 point Broncos

RB- Barry Sanders' 176 yards and 2 touchdowns on a 1990 MNF game against the Raiders, one of the very few instances in which a player was named Offensive Player of the Week despite not being on a team that won

WR- Jimmy Smith's 15 catch, 291 yard, 3 touchdown game against a soon-to-be-legendary (though you wouldn't have known it on this day) Baltimore defense

[Brian wolf]

I still remember DE Kony Ealy for the Panthers in the 2015/16 SB against Denver. Had 3 sacks, Interception, forced and recovered a fumble, but Denver still won with Cam Newton standing like a statue and getting hit constantly.

[JohnTurney]

Derrick Thomas has 7 sacks in a loss to Seattle

Bobby Dillon had 4 picks in a loss to the Lions in Thanksgiving, 1953. He also got hurt that day.

He's been notified that he'd been voted to the Pro Bowl team but back then if you got hurt right before the announcement
you didn't get credit --- like now, you make the team, and are replaced.

Dillon, Doug Atkins and Lee Roy Selmon are three examples of that.

Patrick Mahomes threw close to 500 yards and had 6 TDs in loss to the Rams

Stafford had a 500 yard game and 6 TDs and lost. Aaron Rodgers have an amazing game vs Cards in 2008 in PO

Gabe Davis had 200 yards receiving and 4 TDs in a loss.... with passing and receiving sometimes it's comeback yards and TDs ...

[Brian wolf]

We just lost Charley Johnson who threw for 6 TDs in a loss to the Saints in 1969. Dan Marino threw 6 TDs in a loss against the Jets in 1986.

[74_75_78_79_]

TOM BRADY, SUPER BOWL LII!

Just LOOK at his STATS! Best QB-performance ever??

Perhaps Best performance-period, regardless of position!

If you throw that at all of us before the game, you REALLY think we all see Nick Foles still leading the 'Birds to Victory??

THAT'S the Majesty of those 2017 Eagles!

[Brian wolf]

That and recovering a late Brady fumble ... haha

[74_75_78_79_]

That and recovering a late Brady fumble ... haha

Yeah! And if you throw that fumble at us, we STILL don't picture it!

[Brian wolf]

Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith had a great running duel on a MNF game in 1994. Sanders ran for 194 yrds in the victory but Smith had 143 yrds and a TD, 49 receiving yards and a 45 yrd TD run called back ...

[74_75_78_79_]

Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith had a great running duel on a MNF game in 1994. Sanders ran for 194 yrds in the victory but Smith had 143 yrds and a TD, 49 receiving yards and a 45 yrd TD run called back ...

SUCH a Classic game! I remember watching it with a friend and us being blown away in its entirety!

Think I'm going to watch it again!!

[Sonny9]

Howley, Super Bowl 5, MVP on a losing team