Jenkkifutiksessa kovimpana ja likaisimpana pelaajana pidetään usein Dick Butkusta, joka on myös pelipaikallaan kaikkien aikojen parhaita:
"Dick Butkus was the angriest, most ferocious, menacing, and yes, toughest player to ever play the game of football. Butkus's opponents claimed that Butkus was like an odor that you could feel or sense on the field. Anything loose—a knee pad, a shoe, a chin strap—would be ripped off by a Butkus tackle. Butkus has bitten officials, bitten opponents in the groin, scratched, punched, everything. Going across the middle against Dick Butkus was considered attempted suicide. Butkus was a turnover machine and earned eight Pro Bowl selections in his nine seasons. Steve Sabol had the following to say about Butkus: “His career stands as the most sustained work of devastation ever committed on any field of sport, anywhere, any time.”
"He was an animal and he was a well conditioned animal. Everytime he hit you, he was trying to put you on a cemetary, not hospital."
Yksi omia suosikkeja on myös Jack Lambert, jolla Butkuksesta poiketen oli myös todellisen kovanaaman ulkonäkö: