Randy Moss and the 10 Biggest Quitters in NFL History | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
David Schmidt
Published Mar 25, 2026
You want a better debate? Ask which of them is the bigger quitter.
Let's start with Owens. Like Moss, he's right up at the top of many of the NFL's receiving records. Also like Moss, Owens will go down as one of the greatest receivers to ever play the game.
He will also go down as the biggest diva in NFL history, if not sports history.
There are plenty of examples we can think of, but we should probably keep this relevant. For that, we need to go back to 2005. Owens was with the Philadelphia Eagles at the time, and his season got off to a very good start, but he made sure it didn't last for long. After heavily criticizing Donovan McNabb for basically being a wuss, Owens was suspended for conduct detrimental to the team. After the suspension was over, Owens was deactivated. For some reason, he and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, then proceeded to make asses of themselves on Owens' front yard.
If you wanted to, you could argue that this is not technically quitting, and that in fact nothing Owens has done during his career should earn him the label of "quitter."
Maybe so. All I can say is that Owens wasn't exactly at his best every time the going got tough. In fact, these moments usually made Owens shrink and whine. One time, he even cried.