In our current era, we think of multi-talented players as quarterbacks who can run or throw with equal prowess (think Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen or Cam Newton) and tailbacks who can run and catch the ball like Christian McCaffrey or Breece Hall, but in my book that's just an all-around athlete playing football.

A few multi-talented players played both offense and defense. “Primetime” Deion Sanders played cornerback and a little wideout (also outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees). Charles Woodson played offense and defense at Michigan to win the Heisman trophy. And of course, Bo knows football and baseball. Vincent Edward Jackson was an NFL Pro-Bowler (1990) and an MLB All-Star (1989).

On the lighter side, who remembers in a 2009 Bengals preseason game Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson successfully kicking an extra point after starter Shayne Graham injured his groin? Or Doug Flutie with a dropkick extra point in 2005?

However, the true multi-talented, multi-dimensional “fantasy football superstars” played on offense AND as a full-time placekicker!

Imagine the damage they could do to your fantasy opponents if you had one of these four players in your fantasy lineup as a kicker.

Gino Cappelletti, Boston Patriots (1960-1970) - Cappelletti was a mediocre receiver for his era, but likely the best kicker of the four two-way players listed here. His total of 289.2 fantasy points (20.65 FPTs/G) in 14 games during the 1964 season would be worth 351 points in a 17-game schedule and would place him in third place among receivers last season behind only CeeDee Lamb and Tyreek Hill. As your starting placekicker you would beat Brandon Aubrey’s 157 points from last season by 194 points. That’s like having an extra player in your lineup like Jaylen Waddle for free.

Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packers (1957-1964) - Can you imagine 15 rushing/receiving touchdowns, two touchdown passes AND 41 extra points and 15 field goals as Hornung produced in 1960? No wonder he was called the "Golden Boy." If you started him as your kicker, your advantage over the opposition would be astronomical. He totaled 176 points in a 12-game schedule to win the 1960 NFL scoring title, which would equal 292.8 fantasy points (24.3 FPTs/G) or 413 points in an expended 17-game season. Last year's top running back, McCaffrey, managed just 395.3 points.

George Blanda, Houston Oilers (1949-1975) - In 1961 Blanda started the year slowly, passing for less than 200 yards in two of the team's first four games. But as the Oilers strung together nine consecutive wins to finish the season, Blanda started hitting his targets with more frequency. Over those final nine games, he cracked 300 yards four times; including a 464-yard, four-touchdown game and a stunning 418-yard, seven touchdown effort against the New York Titans. Remember, this happened 40 years before the league started changing rules to help offenses, and in particular, the passing game. Blanda also went 64-for-65 on extra points and 16-of-26 in field goal attempts. He would have totaled 423.7 points by today's fantasy rules in 14 games which computes to 30.3 points-per-game or 514.5 fantasy points versus 473.7 points for Josh Allen last season. Oh, and he ran the ball just seven times all season for 12 yards. Meanwhile, in 2013, when Peyton Manning threw for 55 touchdowns and 5,477 yards, he scored fewer points (496.8).

Don Hutson, Green Bay Packers (1935-1945) - Hutson was the first of the “great” receivers, the forerunner to Lance Alworth, Fred Biletnikoff, Jerry Rice, Calvin Johnson and Justin Jefferson. And he kicked extra points too. In the 1942 season, Hutson had two 200-yard games and four 100-yard games en route to the first 1,000-yard receiving season in NFL history. He finished the season with 1,211 yards, 17 receiving touchdowns, 33-of-34 extra points, 1-of-4 field goals and intercepted seven passes on defense. His 333.5 fantasy points in an 11-game schedule works out to 30.32 FPTs/G which adjusted for a 17-game schedule would be worth 515.4 fantasy points. That would be 110 more points more than Lamb posted last season and 78 more than Cooper Kupp in his monster 2021 season. Or you could have started him as your kicker and laughed all the way to the fantasy championship.

Oh, if only I could draft one of these guys for my fantasy roster this season, I’d cruise to the title!