Pro Football Focus revealed its top 50 players entering the 2020 NFL season. Don’t go looking for any Detroit Lions on PFF’s annual list, however.
There is not one single Lions player in the top 50. No Detroit player grades out high enough at any position to rate as one of the top 50 talents in the NFL at this time.
It’s not a terribly surprising development. Center Frank Ragnow, QB Matthew Stafford, DE Trey Flowers and WR Kenny Golladay all merit some consideration, but the PFF grades and projections leave them all on the outside looking in. The judgment scale needs a little description, so here’s the parameters PFF used,
“We started from the standpoint of a multiyear look at their grading before making adjustments based on situation, relevant injuries and new circumstances that could change a player’s future outlook. Sample size was factored in as well as any suggestion of decline from players reaching the latter stages of their careers.”
Rams DT Aaron Donald tops the list, followed by Patrick Mahomes, Julio Jones, Quenton Nelson and George Kittle.
