As we said in Thursday’s AFC column, identifying an “underrated” player is a truly subjective exercise. A player I might find underrated, you might simply see as a replacement player. Who I might see as a replacement player could be Pro Football Focus’s third-highest-graded interior pass rusher. This is the beauty of the NFL.
I once talked to a former Bengals scout about a moment when he was watching tape on a player. Marvin Lewis walked by and the scout said (I’m paraphrasing a bit): Look at this defensive lineman. Isn’t what he’s doing terrible?