{"id":760854,"date":"2026-07-13T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760854\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:34:08","slug":"lamar-jackson-falls-67-spots-on-the-nfln-list-of-top-100-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760854\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson falls 67 spots on the NFLN list of top 100 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, players will claim that they are uniquely positioned to assess the skills of other players. And then they\u2019ll completely undermine that position by making a horribly flawed assessment of a given player.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: In the NFL Network list of the NFL\u2019s top 100 players, as determined exclusively by players, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFL\/status\/2076683070187643022?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">came in at No. 69<\/a>. A full sixty-seven spots below where he was ranked in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the Ravens didn\u2019t make the playoffs (barely). Yeah, Jackson missed four games due to injury. OK, his passing yards fell from 4,172 to 2,549. Right, his rushing yards dropped from 915 to 349.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, he\u2019s Lamar Jackson. There aren\u2019t 68 players better than him in the NFL. There aren\u2019t 28. There aren\u2019t 18. There arguably aren\u2019t eight.<\/p>\n<p>So how did it happen? As the voting process was explained at some point during the years NFLN has conducted the top-100 voting, an unspecified number of players are asked to list their top 20 NFL players. Points are assigned, 20 down to one, based on where a player lands. If a player, no matter how objectively good he is, is having an off year, he\u2019ll slip farther than he should \u2014 because the players who are currently playing at a high level when a given ballot is constructed will end up in higher spots on more ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Really, it\u2019s not on the players. The process is flawed. As evidenced by the fact that Lamar Jackson fell 67 spots to No. 69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From time to time, players will claim that they are uniquely positioned to assess the skills of other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-760854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}