Is it possible that Pittsburgh Steelers’ outside linebacker and reigning Defensive Player of the Year T.J. Watt is the best non-quarterback in the NFL from a roster-building perspective?
It’s not that far-fetched, to be quite honest. Playing a premium position and being the best player at that position has Watt — who is already on a Hall of Fame trajectory — ranked as the top non-quarterback franchise cornerstone by Bleacher Report’s Gary Davenport, who ranked the top 10 franchise cornerstones in the NFL Thursday.
Watt ranked sixth overall in the top 10, but was the first non-quarterback behind the likes of Los Angeles’s Justin Herbert, Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson, Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow, Buffalo’s Josh Allen and Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes.