J.J. Watt is the NFL’s best player according to his peers, who voted him atop NFL Network’s annual list of the league’s top 100 performers.
If you’re talking bona fide, hand-in-the-dirt football players — many will argue quarterbacks struggle to qualify in the 21st century given the protections NFL rules now afford them — Watt is a clear-cut choice. He’s won two of the past three defensive player of the year awards; he’s the only man in league history with multiple 20-sack seasons; heck, he even moonlighted as a tight end last year with all three of his receptions producing touchdowns.