Nothing makes winning in the NFL easier than having elite players. Stockpile enough of them, especially at key positions, and a team is going to be good. The NFL isn’t the NBA, where stars are everything, but every team in football wants as many elite players as possible.
The Green Bay Packers, despite losing receiver Davante Adams, still have elite players up and down the roster, at least according to the NFL.
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler polled over 50 executives, coaches and players inside the NFL to discover who the league thinks are the elite players.
Of the major position groups on offense and defense, the Packers had a player mentioned in nine of the 11.
Here’s a breakdown of where the Packers ended up in the final poll/rankings: