Napoleon at quarterback. Dracula at corner. A $15 salary cap to fix the rest.

Sherlock Holmes

The detective of 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, who can tell where you've been from the mud on your boots. Reads a defense in one look.

Special

Turns 10% more scoring drives into touchdowns.

Alexander the Great

King of Macedon who built an empire from Greece to India before he turned 33. Has never met a defense he didn't want to march through.

Special

Turns 8% more scoring drives into touchdowns.

Cleopatra

The last ruling pharaoh of Egypt, who spoke several languages and kept Rome off balance for years. Calls plays in whatever language works.

Leonardo da Vinci

Painted the Mona Lisa, filled notebooks with flying machines, and wrote a lot of it backwards. Draws up plays nobody else can read.

Abraham Lincoln

The 16th US president, who led the country through the Civil War. Six foot four, and a pretty good wrestler in his younger days.

Achilles

The greatest Greek fighter at Troy, dipped in the River Styx as a baby and held by the heel. Unstoppable, as long as nobody goes for the ankles.

Special

Scores 5% more often late in the game.

Hermes

Messenger of the Greek gods, with wings on his sandals and on his hat. Fast isn't a strong enough word.

Special

Turns 8% more scoring drives into touchdowns.

Genghis Khan

Founded the Mongol Empire in 1206, which grew into the largest land empire in history. Covers a lot of ground.

Pecos Bill

The cowboy of American tall tales, raised by coyotes, who once rode a tornado. Nothing in the backfield scares him.

Peter Pan

The boy who won't grow up, from J. M. Barrie's stories. He can fly, which helps when the line is stacked.

Loki

The Norse trickster who shape-shifts, lies, and causes most of the gods' problems, then sometimes solves them. Impossible to cover.

Special

Turns 10% more scoring drives into touchdowns.

Mowgli

The boy raised by wolves in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Learned his footwork from Baloo and Bagheera.

Cheshire Cat

The grinning cat in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland who fades away until only the grin is left. Hard to cover when he isn't there.

Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain's Missouri boy who talked his friends into whitewashing his fence for him. Gets the other team to do his work.

Benjamin Franklin

Printer, inventor and founding father who flew a kite in a thunderstorm to show lightning is electricity. Not bothered by a little weather.

Robin Hood

The outlaw of Sherwood Forest from the old English ballads, robbing the rich and splitting an arrow in the target. Kicks like he's still aiming for the bullseye.

Special

Field goals go in 10% more often.

Isaac Newton

Worked out gravity and the laws of motion and published them in 1687. Knows exactly where the ball is coming down.

Galileo

Pointed a telescope at the sky and found four moons going around Jupiter in 1610. The Church made him take some of it back. His kicks, he never takes back.

Nostradamus

French astrologer whose 1555 book of prophecies people still argue about. Says he saw this field goal coming.

Rip Van Winkle

The man in Washington Irving's 1819 story who fell asleep in the Catskills and woke up twenty years later. Sometimes misses the snap count.

Frankenstein's Monster

Built from spare parts by a student who then ran from him, in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. Eight feet tall and reads Milton. Don't call him Frankenstein, that's the guy who made him.

Special

15% chance to wipe out the other team's first score.

Milo of Croton

Six-time Olympic wrestling champion from ancient Greece, said to have trained by carrying a calf every day until it was a full-grown bull. Very comfortable at the point of attack.

Bigfoot

North America's most famous creature that nobody can get a clear photo of. Great size for the line. Hard to scout.

Peter the Great

Tsar of Russia who stood about six foot eight, built St. Petersburg, and dragged the country into the modern world. Plenty of reach on the line.

Henry VIII

King of England, married six times, who broke the country away from the Pope to get a divorce. Mostly looking forward to the postgame meal.

Thor

The Norse god of thunder, who swings a hammer that always comes back to him. Hits hard enough to change the weather.

Special

15% chance to wipe out the other team's first score.

Boudica

Queen of the Iceni who led a revolt against Roman Britain around AD 60 and burned three of its towns. Not someone to make angry.

Theodore Roosevelt

The 26th US president, who led the Rough Riders and in 1912 finished a speech after being shot. You can't knock this guy out of a game.

Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll's other half, from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 story. Smaller, meaner, and a lot less interested in the rules.

Big Bad Wolf

The villain of more fairy tales than anybody can count. Huffs, puffs, and has been known to wear Grandma's nightcap.

Count Dracula

Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire, a count with a castle in Transylvania and a very bad habit. Covers receivers like it's always night.

Special

The other team's first 3 drives are 6% less likely to score.

Headless Horseman

A soldier who lost his head to a cannonball, from Washington Irving's 1820 story. Still riding around Sleepy Hollow looking for it.

Blackbeard

Edward Teach, the pirate who tucked lit fuses under his hat to look even scarier. Ran the Caribbean and the Carolina coast until 1718.

The Invisible Man

Griffin, the scientist in H. G. Wells' 1897 novel who made himself invisible and couldn't figure out how to undo it. Good luck covering him.

Queen of Hearts

The ruler of Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's book, who wants everybody's head cut off. Nobody on the other team wants to find out if she means it.