Derrick Thomas Football Cards

About Derrick Thomas, Hall of Famer

Derrick Thomas was a dominant linebacker who spent his entire 11-season NFL career with the Kansas City Chiefs. The fourth overall pick in the 1989 draft out of Alabama, he earned nine Pro Bowl selections and two first-team All-Pro honors while becoming one of football's greatest pass rushers. Thomas set a single-game sack record in 1990 and finished his career with 126.5 sacks, ranking among the all-time leaders. A car accident in January 2000 left him paralyzed, and he died two weeks later from a pulmonary embolism. He was posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

Did you know? In 1990, Thomas set an NFL single-game sack record with 7 sacks against the Seattle Seahawks, but missed what would have been an eighth sack on the game's final play—a play he later said he wished he could do over.

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