Blue Chips

[Verge]

I was having a conversation with some friends, and we were debating the "blue chip players" on each team, and were attempting to use that to predict how well they would do next season. We went through each teams and counted up how many players on that team could be legitimately argued for top 10 at their respective positions. The numbers might surprise you.

 

Nine blue chip players:

Seahawks

Panthers

 

Eight blue chip players:

Broncos

 

Seven blue chip players:

Patriots

49ers

Browns (!)

 

Six blue chip players:

Texans

Bears

Chiefs  

Saints

 

Five blue chip players:

Cowboys

Lions

Packers

Cardinals

 

Four blue chip players:

Bengals

Ravens 

Colts

Redskins

Buccaneers 

Rams

 

Three blue chip players:

Bills

Jets

Steelers

Titans

Chargers 

Eagles 

Giants 

Vikings 

 

Every other team ended up with two or less.

 

Of course, as you all know, stars can rise any day and become a blue chip player. Also, qb play can make a huge difference on if your blue chips count, but it is an interesting topic none the less.

[Ivan The Awesome]

What criteria were you using and if we have so many do you mind naming them and their respective position?

[RoaringRiot]

Luke

Kraken

CJ

Cam

Tolbert

Olsen

Maybe

Star

That's all I've got - who am I missing?

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[Verge]

What criteria were you using and if we have so many do you mind naming them and their respective position?

 

 

Essentially, we all named players on the roster, and if the majority of us agreed that that player could legitimately be argued as top 10 at their position, we put them on the list. It was two Broncos fans, a Falcons fan, Steelers fan, Raiders fan, and myself. So it made it interesting.

 

As far as our blue chips go;

Cam Newton

Deangelo WIlliams (This one was the hardest to argue honestly, but we eventually agreed)

Ryan Kalil

Greg Olsen

Greg Hardy

Charles Johnson

Star Lotuleilei

Thomas Davis

Luke Kuechly 

[B.BERSIN]

Luke

Kraken

CJ

Cam

Tolbert

Olsen

Maybe

Star

That's all I've got - who am I missing?

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Kalil and Davis

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[RoaringRiot]

Kalil and Davis

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Kalil for sure

As good as TD is I don't think he's a top 10 LB. There are some really good LBs in the league.

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[Verge]

Kalil for sure

As good as TD is I don't think he's a top 10 LB. There are some really good LBs in the league.

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We all agreed he is a top 10 OLB

[micnificent28]

I dont think anyone could argue against Davis. He's about as good as it gets as far as coverage lbs go.

[Frizzy350]

TD could very well be the best coverage linebacker in the game.

 

In terms of 4-3 OLBs, he's very high up there.  The pass rush specialist OLBs (Hali, Houston, Ware,etc) are all very good at what they do, but their primary function is to be a pass rusher rather than playing linebacker.

 

The only guy who gets nation recognition as a typical OLB is Lavonte David.

 

Heck many of us can and will debate Davis is currently better than Luke (and yes, there is some legitimacy to that argument, IMO).

 

I'd definitely throw Star in at top 10 at his position.  In terms of run-stuffing space eaters, there aren't many better than him.

 

You need to factor in the roles these guys play rather than just looking at what the depth chart labels them as.  

[RoaringRiot]

Didn't mean to start a debate on TD. I was grouping all the LBs together....which he is still arguably in, in my opinion. My mistake.

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[toldozer]

I'd disagree with dlo, but add Tolbert in at fb and that's still nine

[Verge]

I'd disagree with dlo, but add Tolbert in at fb and that's still nine

 

We decided not to add in FB, P, or K. Even as a rb he would not make it. Dlo is a legitimately great RB, I don't see why people fail to see it.

[Frizzy350]

We decided not to add in FB, P, or K. Even as a rb he would not make it. Dlo is a legitimately great RB, I don't see why people fail to see it.

 

 

Difficult to see with a line as poor as ours.

[csx]

I dont think Deangello comes close and Olsen is on the bubble. TD for sure though.