Frank Pollack Madden Career 1995-1998 - Peak 94 OVR

Frank Pollack was a sixth-round tackle out of Northern Arizona who spent two separate stints in San Francisco across the 1990s, a swing lineman and occasional starter who won a Super Bowl ring on the 1994 team. He was a dependable, low-drama body a line needs on the bench, the sort who starts a dozen games when injuries hit and disappears back into the rotation when everyone is healthy.

Madden's grades for him are noisy in the usual way. His best card was a 94 for the 1994 season, inflated by a 99 awareness rating that looks like a data artifact rather than a real evaluation, and his other numbers sat much lower, a 59 and a 67, the honest range for a reserve lineman. The 94 is a glitch; the high-50s and 60s are the player.

Pollack, like more than one lineman on this roster, found his real calling as a coach. He became a respected NFL offensive line coach, running fronts for the Cowboys, Bengals and others across more than a decade on the sideline. The player was a rotational tackle with a ring. The coach shaped some of the better running games in the league, which is the more lasting legacy of the two.