Talk about a harsh reality check. The latest list of the top 100 NFL players, this one from CBS Sports and Pete Prisco, throws buckets of cold water on the Detroit Lions.
No Matthew Stafford. No Kenny Golladay. No Trey Flowers. Newcomer Jamie Collins isn’t anywhere to be found either.
Not a single Lions player earned a spot on Prisco’s list of the best 100 players in the NFL today. Golladay was the only Lion to earn “just missed” status in the list of afterthoughts beyond the top 100.
That’s the national perspective on a Lions team that fell from six wins in 2018 to just three in 2019, with several key players suffering injuries or just not playing as well as hoped. Darius Slay was the only 2019 Lion to make the list. The new Eagles CB checks in at No. 96 after his worst season since his rookie campaign in 2013.
Golladay, a healthy Stafford, Flowers, Frank Ragnow and perhaps Collins are the best candidates to appear on the list at this time next year. It will take more than three wins to get any of them on the list, however.