24/7 Tempo reviewed sports records and media reports to determine the greatest two-sport athletes of all time.
| Data for MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL athletes came from the Sports Reference family of sites. 21. Kyler Murray | Sports: Baseball, football | After winning the 2018 Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in the country, quarterback Kyler Murray was drafted first overall by the Arizona Cardinals. He was also selected ninth overall by the Oakland A’s, making him the only top-10 pick in both the MLB and NFL drafts. 20.
He was drafted by the MLB's San Diego Padres, the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, the ABA's Utah Jazz, and even the the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, even though he did not play college football. This made him the only athlete ever to be drafted in four leagues. Winfield chose baseball and excelled, making a dozen All-Star teams and becoming a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He signed the largest contract in sports history at the time, worth $23 million, in 1980. 9.