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Eagles Land a Grand Total of Zero Players on this Top 50 NFL List

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Jul 1st, 2021 · 10:49 AM EDT

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Let’s get it back to the Eagles.

Pro Football Focus is a somewhat controversial entity these days. Actually, “controversial” might be the wrong word, but they are suspect. People are skeptical of what they once thought was an infallible source of football knowledge and data. It seems like the overall attitude towards PFF has shifted in recent years.

Along those lines, the site recently released a list of their top-50 NFL players, and the Eagles have a grand total of zero representatives in the group. Not one.

For reference, these were the last ten guys to slide into their ranking:

• 41: John Johnson (not the WIP host)
• 42: Grady Jarrett
• 43: Terron Armstead
• 44: Michael Thomas
• 45: Stefon Diggs
• 46: Ronnie Stanley
• 47: James Bradberry
• 48: Marcus Williams
• 49: Lavonte David
• 50: Dak Prescott

There’s always a lot of apples-to-oranges comparison that takes place when putting these lists together. How do you compare a safety to a quarterback? You can’t, and so the nature of the ranking is ultimately arbitrary.

But if we’re going like-for-like with positions, I think we’d all say Bradberry is better than Darius Slay right now. None of the Eagles receivers are better than Diggs or Thomas. Obviously Lavonte David would be the best linebacker the Birds have had in some time.

If they were a year or two younger, and/or fully healthy, you’d expect Fletcher Cox, Jason Kelce, Brandon Brooks, and Lane Johnson to be in consideration for this list. But the reality is that they are not a year or two younger. They are aging veterans in the back-half of their careers, and the Eagles are entering a transitional phase that we hope is brief.

That’s the reality of the situation, so it’s hard to argue with a list like this.