These rankings are based on perception and not production and that kinda irks me a little. Does anyone remember Georgia being ranked #1 preseaon last year. That worked out well for the Bulldogs. Anyway, there were a few things that stuck out to me. I haven’t looked at all positions yet, so I guess there will be more but it shocked me to see Steve Smith (Panthers) ranked 10th…you’ve got to be kidding me. Edwards, TO, Lee Evans rank higher than Smith, I don’t think so (but this is just my opinion).

I can deal with Eli being ranked 9th but I find it funny that Eli is perceived as inaccurate (by most) but this poll says that McNabb has a strong, accurate arm. If you check the stats, they posted the same passer rating and completed the same percentage. Here’s that perception thing again, at 60% completion and 86.whatever passer rating, one guy is accurate and the other guy is inaccurate. Go figure.

Ok, one more, before I go to work. Someone is looking like a genius in Texas. I remember when they drafted Mario Williams over Reggie Bush and the general fell was “WTF?”. Boy, did this pan out well for the Texans. Someone was looking at the big picture and down the road. Williams is ranked 3rd (DE) on this poll and Bush doesn’t even appear in the poll. Beanie Wells (a rookie that hasn’t played an NFL down) is ranked over Bush. Oh well, Reggie still has Kim Kardashian

he has a good season this year and he’ll be higher that’s for sure.

Im surprised Jacobs is rated the 3rd best RB in the league tho. I agree with that of course, I just can’t believe a media outlet would do such a thing…..

And I agree with Ed, there is not a chance that A)there are 7 DE’s better than TUck, and B)Osi is not better than Tuck.

As a Giants fan of course I think Tuck is the best DE in the league, but its really not all that far fetched. Jared Allen is great, but you can’t deny that playing with the Williams Wall has helped. He was very good in KC too tho, but I think he may have racked up a bunch of sacks agains the Raiders no?

And while I like the Canty ranking at 5th, I just don’t see how yet. I think he has the chance to be there tho, and I guess these rankings are ‘prospective’ so I guess its fine.

njgiant, great point about McNabb-Eli

How does Freddy Robbins not make the list?

If i’m not mistakened, TSN is more of a fantasy gamers site, rather than a traditional informative site. With saying that, these rankings are somewhat misleading. They’re mixing in intangibles with actual production. I’ve been a member over there for over two years, and everytime a ranking comes out, the whole site is in an uproar, by evidence of all of the negative comments. So i generally take these and any other rankings with a grain of salt.

Thank god i found this site, seriously. If you want hostility and instability, TSN’s forums are the place! lol

Going over most of the positions, you got a Giant or sometimes 2 in the Top 20, mostly top 10, at every postion (and having Orlando Pace at #9, and 6 others ahead of Diehl at tackle is a frickin debacle)

And the sporting News doesn’t even pick the Giants to make the PLAYOFFS!!??

A team with all these great players rated by them (and “real scouts”), and a team that emphasizes ‘team’ first, and they don’t even pick them to make the playoffs….

I find it sad that The Sporting News has become the after thought that it is now in the sports media world. I usually go just about everywhere else before i go to TSN. They have ‘The Sporting Blog,’ which is pretty good, but that’s about it. As for rankings, they are meaningless. But, as you can see already, at least they give us something to talk about.

I have no problems with Peyton, Brady, Big Ben being ahead of Eli. I do have issues with Brees, Mcnabb, Rivers and especially Carson Palmer ahead of him. Are we serious here? What have those guys done, Brees is a stat machine but doesn’t win, McNabb is a choke artist to the fullest, Rivers is young and promising but I take Eli 10 times outta 10 over Rivers and Carson Palmer, wow this guy must love the Bengals or something, i mean new oline whod they get that kid int he draft whose stock plummeted, and new receiving core if they mean by losing Housh. This is a disgrace Eli should be ahead of those 4 for the mere fact he wins games, and what hes done. Not his fault our top WR was an idiot and he had to pickup mid season without a deep threat, no QB could have won with the young WRs we were left with last year. This is a joke for sure.

cant get too worked up about it. not like certain people might get worked up about romo being ranked behind eli anyway.

these are based on production, not necessarily talent. So Eli taking a hit for having a young core makes just as much sense as Jared Allen being upgraded because of the Williams

are garbage.. for defensive ends, how is olshansky higher than luis castillo.. Olshansky was the third best lineman in the chargers three man front

I have no prob w/ Eli at 9. That’s pretty fair. He’ll move up plenty by the end of this season. And I’m glad Jacobs got some love. If any back had to share the ball as often as he has, they would never get ranked anywhere near the top 10 (believe, I’m glad he has to share, a down saved, is a down earned). Along those lines, I’d say it’s hard to justify a spot for any of our D-Line. They share the limelight and take away from each others’ stats (and help pad them, too).