Earlier this week, Sports Illustrated’s Monday Morning Quarterback released its 400 best players in the NFL, as ranked by Andy Benoit. You may remember Benoit from his recent smash hit, “backup quarterbacks better than Colin Kaepernick,” plus the terrific “Is Richard Sherman on the decline?” column (citing precisely zero statistics to back anything up), and the 2015 classic, “Move over Seattle, the Rams have the NFC West’s best defense.”
Okay, before we get to the meat of the story, here’s how Benoit’s rankings system came together:
Ranking football players is an imperfect science; one position is far too different from the next.