NFL Top 100 players of 2018

#81. Leonard Williams

#82. Melvin Gordon

#83. Kirk Cousins

#84. Devonta Freeman

#85. Lavonte David

#86. Yannick Ngakoue

#87. Mark Ingram

#88. Andrew Whitworth

#89. Davante Adams

#90. Jarvis Landry

Williams was my number one prospect back in the 2015 NFL draft and while that year provided a special class of running backs (Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, David Johnson and Jay Ajayi), the Jets D-linemen has been the most consistent player of that class. His combination of athleticism and effort is outstanding.

Over the next few spots, I have three backs who I have rated very similarly. I went with Gordon over the other two because of his involvement in the passing game. The former Wisconsin member finally reached the 1000-yard mark last season, after coming three yards short in 2016, but he also caught 58 balls.

The first man ever to get an 84-million dollar contract fully guaranteed, Cousins still is one of the most underappreciated quarterbacks in the league.

In his three years as a full-time starter, he has completed exactly two-third of his passes (66.7 percent) for 81 touchdowns compared to 36 INTs. He has yet to win the really big game, but he hasn’t always had the most to work with.

I have Freeman coming up next. He would have probably been higher had he not missed any time, but his numbers went down a little and he had six games with less than 50 yards rushing. Regardless, he is one of the angriest runners in the entire league and plays with incredible balance.

Nobody talks about this guy anymore, but I still think Lavonte David is one of the best linebackers in the NFL. He can sink in coverage, erase tight-ends as well as guys coming out of the backfield and shows up in the behind the line against the run time and time again.

Ngakoue is becoming the league’s next strip-sack artist. His unbelievable burst off the line and ability to flip his hips towards the quarterback led him to force six fumbles coming off his 12 sacks. Oh, and this was just his second season down in Sacksonville.

I actually wanted to put Ingram a little higher on the list, but him being suspended for the first four games of this upcoming season, I thought this spot was right for him. He and his division rival Devonta Freeman are very similar in terms of being violent runners with the ball in their hands.

Whitworth came over from Cincinnati a year ago and instantly transformed the Rams’ offensive line. He gave them stability on the left side and made everybody on that front step up their game. Whit will turn 37 this season and we saw some signs of him slowing down late in the season, but he definitely deserves a spot on the list.

I know Jordy Nelson had been the favorite target of Aaron Rodgers for years now, but Davante Adams has developed into the Packers’ top receiver and made Nelson expendable. His total numbers decreased slightly with Rodgers missing half the season, but he is almost untouchable off the line, goes over the top of the defenders and is hard to bring down with the ball in his hands.

In his first four years in the league, Jarvis Landry has caught a total of 400 passes. Last season he came up just short of the 1000-yard mark and the Dolphins traded him because they saw him as “just” a slot receiver, but I love the fire he plays with and he will be a reliable target in Cleveland.