Sticking near the line of scrimmage for another week, it’s time to check out the top 10 DTs in preparation for the 2022 season. These players can often be underrated, particularly when their premier skill is run stuffing. Those DTs are traditional nose tackles; they are critical on 1st and 2nd down, but often leave…
Next up in our position examinations: linebackers! In particular, we’re talking about inside linebackers who lined up in a traditional linebacker spot. OLBs that played primarily on the edge as pass rushers were covered in last week’s article. In spite of the emphasis placed on outside LBs, MLBs are still highly valuable, with the largest…
Rather than go with another offensive position group this week, I’m going to give the defense some love. Specifically, we’re going to examine the top 10 edge rushers in advance of the 2022 season. Defensive ends don’t need to be appreciated by me; their teams know their value, as evidenced by DEs/OLBs possessing the highest…
This time, we’re looking at the top 10 TEs for 2022. I am really glad I didn’t write this article before Gronk announced his retirement. Tight ends have diversified in recent years, with some that are pure blockers like an extra lineman or fullback, some that are pure receivers and look almost like large WRs,…
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the top 10 RBs ahead of the upcoming NFL season. This time around, we’re going to examine the top 10 WRs heading into the 2022 season. After all, they’ve been obliterating the market in their free agency deals and extensions the past few months. This is an…
I know. This isn’t the type of fun topic you were likely hoping to see me write about this week. Unfortunately, new developments have necessitated that we talk about Deshaun Watson the man again, not the football player. In this article, we’ll briefly review what has happened to this point, and then we’ll discuss the…
Quarterbacks get all the love (see this page for some talk about them), but teams that run the ball well tend to have sustained success, particularly in the playoffs and in games played in cold weather. With that in mind, I thought it would be nice to compile a list of the top 10 RBs…
Hope springs eternal before the games are actually played. Each person thinks that their team is this season’s turnaround story or that their QB will take the leap to elite status. But obviously everyone can’t be right. So let’s inject a little reality into the situation. I’ve already discussed how I think teams’ rookies will…
Now that the draft is behind us, it’s time to look forward. What better way to do that than to look at the players just selected and try to guess which of them will take home hardware at the next NFL Honors? I’m going to do my best to project the upcoming rookies of the…
Every year, hundreds of players who hoped to hear their names called go undrafted. This is not the end of their journey, however. Many of these players will be signed by NFL teams and given a chance to make their rosters; many of them will do just that. As Field Yates of ESPN recently pointed…