Former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer might be biased, but when it comes to the argument of who the greatest football player ever is, he won’t tell you it’s Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Jim Brown or Jerry Rice.

Palmer, appearing on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM, believes that title belongs to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.

“Larry’s the best to ever do it,” he said. “Put his stats up against any guy.”

That’s an easy one. By the end of the 2018 season, he will most certainly be second all-time in receiving yards and might pass Tony Gonzalez for the second-most receptions in NFL history.

But what makes him the best, according to Palmer, aren’t the numbers.

“To me, he’s the best to ever play the game,” he continued. “It’s not about how good his hands were or the spectacular catches. It’s just everything else. It’s blocking, leading, looking, showing young guys how to do it off the field and on the field. Aside from catching X amount of balls and touchdowns and yards and all that, just the friend and the teammate, the leader. All those things stick out.”

To Palmer, all the numbers and Pro Bowls and accolades Fitzgerald has earned over the years are “irrelevant.”

Why? It is because “he was so great in the locker room and on the practice field, and just showing young guys how to get it done.”

Palmer said that even though he is older than Fitzgerald by a few years, he looked up to Fitz and was helped by him in a number of ways.

“The stats are awesome and it’s amazing,” Palmer said. “He’ll go down in history as statistically one of the greatest ever, but when you factor in all the other things he does and all the other elements he brings to a team and to an offense, he’s the best to ever do it, to me.”

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