Though the best NFL players see their exploits magnified on a week-to-week basis, every season also sees those players who work very well under the radar, and do not get the attention their level of play deserves. If you’re a great player on a bad team, that can reduce your prominence. If you’re a low-drafted or undrafted younger player just coming into your own, it can take a second for everyone to catch up with how good you actually are. And if you’re coming back from a rough season or two, perhaps recency bias is not your friend.
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That said, a number of underrated defensive players have caught our eye — enough to put a more than credible team on the field — and here’s the list: Touchdown Wire’s most underrated defensive players through the first half of the 2020 season.