If Pat Surtain II were choosing, he’d have been nine spots higher.
As it stands, though the Broncos’ star corner and reigning defensive player of the year is in heady company.
Surtain checked in at No. 10 on the NFL’s countdown of the best players in the league.
“If I had to write a text book on cornerback play, it’d be Pat Surtain,” Baltimore cornerback and fellow 2024 Associated Press first-team All-Pro Marlon Humphrey said of Surtain in a video published by the NFL. “… There’s very few people that move that smoothly at his height, his size.