The New Orleans Saints were represented well on the All-Decade Top 101 list from Pro Football Focus, with quarterback Drew Brees joining several teammates on their ranking of the best NFL players over the last ten years. Terron Armstead and Cameron Jordan were each featured in previous updates to the list, as were a few other faces familiar to Saints fans.
But Brees ranked higher than any of them. In fact, he was selected as the third-best player to take the field since 2010. PFF analyst Sam Monson wrote of the high placement:
3. QB DREW BREES
Drew Brees has been the most accurate passer in league history and is closing in on being the most prolific in pretty much every passing category. Brees owns two of the top three seasons in the decade in terms of adjusted completion rate, and for the decade as a whole is more than two percentage points clear of the field. Brees had three seasons in the decade with a PFF grade above 90.0 and two more above 89.0. He has been a model of consistency and production despite rarely having consistent receivers or the depth of some of the other top quarterbacks.
What’s even more impressive is that Brees trails just one other quarterback, who is now his newest division rival in the NFC South: Tom Brady, at the number-one spot. Green Bay Packers signal-caller Aaron Rodgers is the next-best quarterback (at No. 6), but you’ll have to scroll pretty far down PFF’s list to find Peyton Manning (fittingly, at No. 18). How’s that for a gulf between their talents?
