This list is about who are the better players right now or next season (2012), and not about last season (2011). So here it is the list that they have revealed so far: Rank Player 31 Eli Manning 32 Jahri Evans 33 Matt Forte 34 Tamba Hali 35 Steve Smith 36 Charles Woodson 37 Steven Jackson 38 Ndamukong Suh 39 Victor Cruz 40 Cam Newton 41 Matthew Stafford 42 Jason Peters 43 Vernon Davis 44 Jason Babin 45 Vonta Leach 46 Champ Bailey 47 Mike Wallace 48 Devin Hester 49 Maurkice Pouncey 50 Peyton Manning 51 Brian Urlacher 52 Von Miller 53 Tony Gonzalez 54 Brian Cushing 55 Patrick Peterson 56 Greg Jennings 57 Trent Cole 58 Jonathan Vilma 59 Jake Long 60 Darren McFadden 61 Philip Rivers 62 Justin Tuck 63 LaMarr Woodley 64 Logan Mankins 65 Roddy White 66 Earl Thomas 67 Joe Staley 68 Elvis Dumervil 69 Carlos Rogers 70 Michael Vick 71 DeSean Jackson 72 Lance Briggs 73 Johnathan Joseph 74 Joe Flacco 75 Jason Witten 76 Carl Nicks 77 A.J. Green 78 Derrick Johnson 79 Nnamdi Asomugha 80 Jordy Nelson 81 Vince Wilfork 82 Joe Thomas 83 Fred Jackson 84 Chris Long 85 NaVorro Bowman 86 Darren Sproles 87 London Fletcher 88 Michael Turner 89 Dwight Freeney 90 Hakeem Nicks 91 Tony Romo 92 John Kuhn 93 Cortland Finnegan 94 Marshawn Lynch 95 Tim Tebow 96 D'Qwell Jackson 97 Donald Penn 98 Willis McGahee 99 Ryan Kalil 100 Chris Johnson Discuss if the players should be higher, lower or off the list.
It's obviously not a truly legitimate list. I doubt most NFL players can even name 100 of their fellow players, and many probably just had someone else google some online rankings mixed in with their own favorite guys. Although I am curious to see the top-10 players. For a true top-100 list, you'd probably want to interview front offices and get their scouting reports for that, which of course will never happen.
21. Rob Gronkowski 22. Ray Rice 23. Wes Welker 24. Jason Pierre Paul 25. Arian Foster 26. Julius Peppers 27. Clay Matthews 28. Frank Gore 29. James Harrison 30. Ben Roethlisberger Damn, Gronk and Foster definitely should be in the Top 20.
I agree, how Foster is as low as 25 is beyond me. I wouldn't put Rice before Foster. Also Chris Johnson at 100? Wtf?
This list is such a joke. Just looking at the QB position.......Vick? Flacco? TEBOW?????? Ok.......what NFL Network employee's 12 year old daughter made this list?
The rankings are based on NFL players voting on their peers based on their belief of how the player will perform the following season. so the players with their votes, were the ones to make this list.
Ah - that explains why it's a bad list. Players are the worst to ask for this kind of stuff. There's no perspective. Other than ESPN background drivel (Tebow), these guys focus one week at a time. The Texans only played 13 opponents last year, for example, and they were a team that went deep into the playoffs. Of the 31 other teams, they missed the majority (18). With the 13 teams they did play, most of them they saw a single time. So if a player has a career game, or just happens to have an off day... they don't have the perspective to grasp what it means. I know there's film study, but the vast majority of that is done by the coaches and scouts in private. They then drill their team accordingly in practices throughout the week. With the exception of quarterbacks and the postseason, there's not THAT much thorough film study that goes on for NFL players. There's just way too much else on their plate to get ready to play a game each and every week. So "lists" like these... are largely based on a combination of ESPN hype, the buddy system (who's most likable/social), small sample sizes and reputation (which many times is representative of where a player was two years ago, not today). There's a reason sportswriters, not players, vote for awards like MVP... it's because they have a better shot at having a broader perspective of where individual things fit in in the broader context of the NFL. Players are far too focused on specifics to take their opinions seriously on stuff like this.
Tebow, I agree on, but you don't think Flacco or Vick belong on the list, even though the list has about 12-14 QBs on it.
Vick maybe. Flacco.....hell no! There are at least 15 to 17 QB's I would put ahead of Flacco. Joe Flacco is not in the Top 10 Baltimore Ravens list.....let alone the NFL top 100.
Aaron Rodgers Tom Brady Drew Brees Peyton Manning Ben Roethlisberger Eli Manning Philip Rivers Tony Romo Matt Schuab/Stafford/Ryan Michael Vick Cam Newton Andy Dalton He's fairly rated for now, though might fall with emergence of Luck and Griffin III.
So I got the list of the top 10 players in the ranking, but not in order. - Demarcus Ware - Haloti Ngata - Patrick Willis - Darrelle Revis - Calvin Johnson - Larry Fitzgerald - Adrian Peterson - Drew Brees - Aaron Rodgers - Tom Brady
6 offensive 4 defensive players. My rankings: Defensive players: 1a) Patrick Willis 1b) Demarcus Ware 2) Darelle Revis 3) Haloti Ngata Offensive players: 1a) Tom Brady 1b) Aaron Rodgers 2) Drew Brees 3) Calvin Johnson 4) Larry Fitzgerald 5) Adrian Peterson
