2025 NFL Rank: Predicting top 100 players for this season - ESPN

The NFL regular season is almost here! The real games begin when the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles host the Cowboys on Sept. 4. Now it's time for our annual ranking of the league's top 100 players. Who do we project to be the best players in 2025?

To create our list, we asked 10 NFL analysts and insiders — Aaron Schatz, Ben Solak, Dan Graziano, Jeff Legwold, Jeremy Fowler, Liz Loza, Matt Bowen, Mike Clay, Seth Walder and Stephen Holder — to rank players based on expected performance for the 2025 season. Their rankings are based on predicting potential greatness rather than past performance. We used those 10 sets of votes to come up with our consensus top 100 list.

The Eagles lead the pack with 10 players, followed by the Lions with eight and the 49ers and Ravens with six each. The Saints and Panthers are the only teams without a representative. Quarterbacks and wide receivers dominated, with 15 players each making our list.

NFL Nation reporters weighed in on every player's outlook for the season, ESPN Research provided a stat to know and fantasy analyst Mike Clay projected 2025 stats. Here's our list, starting at No. 100 and working our way to No. 1.

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CB | Seahawks
Age: 24
2024 rank: 84

Witherspoon barely cracks the list despite two straight Pro Bowl appearances to begin his career. With an endless motor and aggressive playing style that belies his 185-pound frame, the No. 5 pick of the 2023 draft has filled a dual role at outside corner and nickel. Most of his biggest plays have come inside, and it remains to be seen how much he'll line up there now that Seattle plans to use second-round pick Nick Emmanwori as a third safety in