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Power Ranking Top 100 Players in NFL History (Part I: #100-51)

May 29, 2017

Embed from Getty Images It’s no easy task to look at the National Football League’s 97-year history and select the 100 best players to ever wear a uniform. The game has evolved from a run-heavy, pass-resistant environment to one in which the modern rules cater to high-volume passing attacks. Statistics are readily available to today’s fans, but that wasn’t the case 50, 40, even 30 years ago. I can’t…

Sam Bradford for NFL MVP? Really?

October 5, 2016

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Embed from Getty Images As a football junkie, I read dozens of articles per week on anything from fantasy football projections to Sunday recaps to power rankings of the best head coaches in the game. Peter King’s MMQB column has long been one of my absolute favorites, even if I don’t always agree with what he writes. His recent article on Why Sam Bradford is MVP intrigued yet baffled me….

Previewing Each NFL Team’s 2016 Season

August 31, 2016

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Embed from Getty Images It’s just over a week until the official start of the 2016 NFL season. I’ll be publishing a series of NFL articles. This one will focus on a brief preview of each team, ranked in order of how I think they will finish in the division. An asterisk means a wild-card berth. My playoff predictions are below. Stay tuned for a 50 bold predictions article…

Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Best Players Heading Into 2016 Season

August 6, 2016

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Embed from Getty Images You’ve likely seen the NFL Network top 100 list, a ranking accumulated by fellow players around the National Football League. It’s a passing league dominated by quarterbacks and skill position players, and the rankings reflected that. Forty nine of the 100 players were skill position players, and nearly half the league’s quarterbacks made the cut. In making my list, I tried to put as much…

Power Ranking 50 Active NFL Players With Best Chance at Pro Football Hall of Fame

July 9, 2016

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Embed from Getty Images It’s always difficult to speculate Hall of Fame chances for a professional athlete, especially one in the National Football League. A player can be on track for Canton, Ohio one day and rehabbing a potentially career-ending injury the next. That’s what makes it fun to guess which players will keep up their dominance. I evaluated active players based on the usual criteria – individual positional…

Power Ranking NFL’s 100 Greatest Running Backs of All-Time (Part III: #20-1)

July 1, 2016

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Embed from Getty Images Running back is a unique position. It’s constantly devalued in today’s NFL as the modern game is centered primarily on pass-happy offenses and high-volume numbers. But when you have a special player like Adrian Peterson – a ball-carrier who can run with the football, catch passes, and block – he’s a franchise player worth keeping around. The greatest of all-time were those who could do…

Does it Make Sense for the Philadelphia Eagles to Pick Ezekiel Elliott Eighth Overall?

March 21, 2016

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Embed from Getty Images When the Philadelphia Eagles sent Byron Maxwell and Kiko Alonso to the Miami Dolphins, it was more than just a salary dump and moving on from an oft-injured ex-Oregon player of Chip Kelly’s. It was general Howie Roseman’s way of moving the Eagles from the 13th overall selection in the first round to the Dolphins’ eighth pick – a move more necessary considering Roseman says there…