They didn’t serve missions.



Eldon Fortie – first team AA,

Virgil Carter, honorable AA, nfl draft pick,

Gary Sheide - Sammy Baugh award, nfl draft pick,

Brad Oates – AP 2nd team AA, nfl draft pick,

Gifford Nielsen – first team AA, nfl draft pick,

Marc Wilson - Sammy Baugh award , third in Heisman, consensus AA, NFL 1st round draft pick

Clay Brown – multiple AA, NFL draft pick

Nick Eyre – consensus AA, NFL draft pick

Jim McMahon - Davey O’brien award, Sammy Baugh award, consensus AA, nfl 1st round draft pick

Gordon Hudson - consensus AA x2

Steve Young – NFL MVP, Davey O’brien award, Sammy Baugh award, Heisman runner up, consensus AA

Todd Shell – Nfl 1st round pick, honorable AA

Robbie Bosco – Sammy Baugh award, Davey O’brien runner up, 3rd in Heisman x2, multiple AA teams,

Kyle Morrell – AP 1st team AA, nfl draft pick

Leon White – AP honorable mention, NFl draft pick

David Mills – multiple AA teams

Mark Bellini – AP 3rd team AA, NFL draft pick

Jason Buck – Outland award, nfl 1st round pick and consensus AA

Shawn Knight – NFL 1st round pick

Mo Elewonibi - Outland award and consensus AA

Ty Detmer – Heisman award, college football hall of fame, Davey O’Brien award x2, Maxwell award and consensus AAx2

Evan Pilgrim – AP second team AA

Steve Sarkisian - Sammy Baugh award, third in Davey O’Brien award , second team AA

Luke Staley – Doak Walker award and consensus AA

Todd Watkins – honorable AA, nfl draft pick, SI “nations top deep threat”

Harvey Unga –BYU all time leading rusher, NFL supplemental draft pick,

Kyle Van Noy- nfl 2nd round pick. multiple AA second and third teams.

Ziggy Ansah – , NFL pro bowl, 5th overall NFL draft pick and honorable AA

Cody Hoffman – BYU all time leading receiver, SI AA honorable mention

And some of the best players on current team:

Tejan Koromoa – freshman all American – best returning offensive linemen
Jamaal Williams – best returning running back, likely to break all time rushing records
Nick Kurtz - best returning receiver.
Fred Warner – best returning linebacker
Kai Nacua – best returning safety
Michael Davis – best returning cornerback
Other starting cornerback – Either Troy Warner, Akile Davis, Isaiah Armstrong, Michael Shelton, or Chris Wilcox.

If serving a mission was such an advantage, I’m sure most of these players would have served one.