But Tyreek Hill was voted number 1
Tyreek Hill becomes the first receiver to be named the No. 1 player in the NFL | NBC Sports
Ordinarily, we don’t care about this list. The methodology is flawed. There’s little or no transparency. An unspecified number of players are asked to list the top 20 players in the league during the prior season. The outcome will be influenced by the specific timing of the voting.
Indeed, in specific stretches of the 2023 regular season (when Hill was on pace for more than 2,000 receiving yards and the Chiefs’ offense was so-so at best), he would have been the top choice for many players. By the time the dust settled on the season, however, it was clear that the best player in the league is Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. (Mahomes finished fourth, behind Hill, Lamar Jackson, and Christian McCaffrey.)
Three Chiefs Named Among the Top 10 Players in the NFL for 2024 | The Mothership
Three members of the Kansas City Chiefs were named among the top players in the NFL on Friday as quarterback Patrick Mahomes (No. 4), defensive tackle Chris Jones (No. 6) and tight end Travis Kelce (No. 9) each landed in the annual “NFL Top 100” rankings.
The Chiefs were the only team to feature three players in the top 10 of the rankings, which were voted on by the players themselves.
4. AFC West
Raiders: Brock Bowers, Michael Mayer
Obviously, we know all about Kelce. If he’s not the single-best tight end in the league, he’s damn close. People around the league have those kind of hopes for Bowers, though we obviously haven’t seen it from him yet. Both Dulcich and Mayer have a lot of talent, but not yet a lot of production. And Hurst is your prototypical “solid veteran who will be in the right spots but probably not be a big part of the offense.”
2024 Preseason NFL Offensive Line Rankings: Which Team Tops The List? | The 33rd Team
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Critical question or takeaway: The Kansas City Chiefs have the league’s best interior trio led by personal favorite Trey Smith, who is one of the NFL’s best finishers. Now, they need someone to step up and take the left tackle spot plus RT Jawaan Taylor to play close to his contract.
There were no running backs in the NFL last year who matched his touchdown tally.
Still, the Miami Dolphins back believes he’ll always be running the race to recognition, despite coming off a season in which he earned his first Pro Bowl and NFL Top 100 accolades.
“I’m always going to be underrated, no matter what,” Mostert said Friday, via team transcript. “I’m an underrated, under-the-radar type of guy, that’s fine with me.”
Playing in his second season with the Dolphins, Mostert had the best year of his nine-season, five-team career. The speedster scored a franchise-record 18 rushing touchdowns, led the league with 21 scrimmage TDs and rushed for 1,012 yards. It was his first career 1,000-yard season and the first for the Fins since 2016.
Prescott: Extension ‘can be done,’ Lamb’s ‘ready to get back’ | ESPN
“I’m a guy that grew up with two older brothers,” Prescott said. “You understand what a brotherhood means, not only for just this team but the fraternity of the NFL and the players. The money is out there and the money can happen. It can be done. There’s ways to make everything work for both ways. That’s in that sense it’s always about pushing the envelope for the next man.”
Owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Friday that talks are continuing with Prescott, as well as with wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, who missed his 10th day of training camp in a holdout.
“I would not have a legitimate progress point there at all [with Prescott] and I really don’t have one for Lamb either,” Jones said. “And it’s not negative. I’m just not thinking that it will do any good to talk about progress.”
Chiefs News: RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire details mental health struggles
On Wednesday, Edwards-Helaire was on the field at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph for the team’s next practice. Then after Thursday’s session, the fifth-year pro met with the media to discuss his off-the-field struggles that began in December of 2018, when he and an LSU teammate killed an individual who was attempting to rob them.
“I had a self-defense situation,” he began. “I would say that’s probably where the majority of things stem from, but I wouldn’t necessarily say everything stems from that.
“I have best friends that passed away at young ages from gun violence — just not being in the right places at the right time. Just knowing that I have people that were close to me or around me who’re not in the situation or could be in the same spots that I am.
“When I go back home, I’m visiting some of my friends at gravesites and doing those things. It’s different when you feel like your whole life is ‘football player’ or everything is geared towards this. It’s so much more than just putting the pads on.”
As Edwards-Helaire has matured, he has realized that the effect of these kinds of terrifying incidents do not simply go away.
“I would say with that happening at such a young age,” he observed, “my first couple of years, you just try to block everything out and be like, ‘Oh, at some point I’m going to get over it.’ You start to realize that that just doesn’t happen. You get older, and you realize no matter the age, no matter the person, no matter the situation, everyone needs help at some point.”
