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Myles Garrett barely misses top 10 of NFL’s top 100 players

Who does Myles Garrett think should be #1? “If you look at the tape, me.” The votes didn’t add up to that as he falls outside of the top 10:

The NFL has finished up its list of the top 100 players in the league as voted on by the players. The first half of the list included three members of the Cleveland Browns:

  • CB Denzel Ward
  • OL Wyatt Teller
  • OL Joel Bitonio

As the top 50 players started getting rolled out, another Browns member joined the list with RB Nick Chubb ranked #33.

As noted in that article, Chubb’s video ended by noting that he was the team’s second highest-ranked player on the list. To no one’s surprise, that top-ranked player was DE Myles Garrett but how high he was on the list was the big question.

In 2021, Garrett was ranked 16th but his performance last season bumped him up a few spots to #11 this year:

While missing out on the top 10 is surprising, Garrett is the fourth highest-ranked defender behind DT Aaron Donald (at #2), DE T.J. Watt (at #6) and CB Jalen Ramsey (at #9). The luster of the Los Angeles Rams Super Bowl may have helped two of those players.

Our colleagues at Touchdown Wire disagree with the list.

Another big season from Garrett and a playoff run by the Browns should push him up into the top 10 and perhaps higher in 2023 but for now, the defensive end continues to chase greatness.

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Slingin’ Sammy Baugh one of 10 QBs selected to NFL100 All-Time Team

Baugh was one of the greatest players that the Redskins have ever seen, and he’s being honored as part of the NFL100 All-Time Team.

For the 100th season of the National Football League, the NFL has been releasing its list of top 100 players to ever play the game, broken down by position groups.

The release has been coming steadily over the past several weeks, and the naming of the top quarterbacks of all time recently came out to top it all off before the end of 2019. One member of the Washington Redskins was featured in that final grouping of 10, and it’s very well deserved.

Slingin’ Sammy Baugh is one of the best QBs in NFL history, and he’s receiving one of his many days in the sun, more than a decade after his passing in 2008.

Baugh was a renaissance man if there ever was one in the NFL, as he not only excelled at the quarterback position, but he was also a dynamic defensive back and punter as well. In his 15+ plus years with the Redskins, Baugh was a two-time NFL champion (1937, 1942); four-time first-team All-Pro selection; led NFL in completion percentage eight times, passing yards four times, and a member of the inaugural class in Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963).

In our list of the top 100 Redskins in franchise history earlier this year, Baugh ranked as the fifth-best player Washington has ever had, and many could argue that he should be higher. Now he is getting more well-deserved recognition by the NFL itself. Congrats Sammy, we appreciate all you did for the Redskins.

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