The list of truly great, transcendent, gold jacket-destined NFL players is short. But the list of really good current players is rather long, and sometimes because of age or circumstance, the lines between great and good are blurred for legends on the decline.

That's why the 2025 NFL Rank project celebrating the league's top 100 players has a healthy batch of snubs.

ESPN's NFL experts rated players based on performance expectations for the 2025 season in comparison to their peers. The project arrived about a month after we put a bow on our annual Top 10s project , in which NFL executives, coaches and scouts ranked the top players at each position entering 2025.

A review of the two rankings shows plenty of similarities in the order of each position -- and a whole bunch of differences

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