Every year NFL.com releases their Top 100 NFL players headed into the next season. They are not done unveiling the list, but former NC State quarterback Philip Rivers is ranked as the #56 overall player headed into the 2018 season.
For context, Rivers was ranked 73rd heading into last season.
Rivers maintained his place among the league’s better quarterbacks in 2017, and if it weren’t for kicking miscues early in the season, probably would have been playing in January instead of spending it at home. Rivers’ Top 100 tale is an intriguing one: He’s bounced between the top 30-60 positions for much of its existence, save for the 2013 rankings, in which he missed it entirely after failing to break 4,000 yards passing for the first time since 2007.