Rank the Roster 2023: #13

[Waldo]

Rank The Roster: 2023 Edition

1. Jaire Alexander (43%)[+2]
2. Aaron Jones (26%)[+6]
3. David Bakhtiari (34%)[+1]
4. Kenny Clark (50%)[-2]
5. Rashan Gary (57%)[+1]
6. Elgton Jenkins (54%)[-1]
7. DeVondre Campbell (29%)[--]
8. Christian Watson (32%)[+14]
9. Jordan Love (32%)[+21]
10. Preston Smith (32%)[+2]
11. Rasul Douglas (29%)[+2]
12. AJ Dillon (27%)[-1]
13. Current (xx%)[--]

Percent of vote the winner got will be in parenthesis, position change vs. 2022 will be in brackets.

Here's how this works:

Each day there is a new thread/poll, starting at #1, on down to whereever we get. The whole point of this exercise is to have something to talk about in the lean news months to carry us to camp. Each poll will be open for voting for 24 hours. New threads will only be created on weekdays. Ties will cause a runoff poll. You may vote up to TWO players (a change that was made mid-poll last year, seemed to work well).

Simply voting is not enough!

Post why you voted for who you did and provide a player to add to the next poll (every poll will be a list of 15-20 guys, new players added in bunches every few days).

Here's the thing. There is no criteria. This is an exercise to foster discussion therefore there are no clear criteria for ranking. Who is better right now? Who will have the best season? Who was better last year? Sort of a combo of them all? Do you take positional value into account? It really doesn't matter.

Previous Years:
Rank the Roster: 2022
Rank the Roster: 2021
Rank the Roster: 2020
Rank the Roster: 2014-2019

[Acrobat]

I'll go Nixon here. Quay is also tempting.

[Waldo]

I was sold on Wyatt last round now that Dillon is finally off the board.

Quay and Wyatt. Our rd 1 picks last year. Both have shown flashes, both have ceilings in the clouds.

[Labrev]

Quay is obviously very talented and showed it a few times last year, but he was *wildly* inconsistent.

I don't see him suddenly becoming reliably good after one season, and I think we are setting ourselves up for disappointment to believe he will.

It would be one thing if he ended the year with a few games in a row with consistent good play, making you come away thinking 'oh yeah, the lightbulb just came on.' He was having a good game against the Lions, then he pulled a Burfict, when he should have learned from when he did that earlier in the year.

I can get behind Wyatt more. Wyatt didn't put as much on tape, but his trajectory over the year was steady improvement, culminating into a really strong game against the Lions. I can see a 'jump' from him more easily than I can with Quay.

Nixon OTOH is a clearly ascending player, quality nickel (basically a starting role) for us and was an All-Pro returner.

[BF004]

I was sold on Wyatt last round now that Dillon is finally off the board.

Quay and Wyatt. Our rd 1 picks last year. Both have shown flashes, both have ceilings in the clouds.

Thems the two I’ve been voting.

Van Ness sooner than later after them.

[Madcity_matt]

I went Quay and Nixon again. Wyatt and Van Ness probably my next two after that.

[Backthepack4ever]

Tom and Nixon.

Tom is one of the starting 5 and our best lineman after Bak and Jenkins.

Nixon for both teams and now on d. He's electric

[paco]

Tom and Nixon.

Tom is one of the starting 5 and our best lineman after Bak and Jenkins.

Nixon for both teams and now on d. He's electric

Same here. I've been voting for Nixon for a while. Considered Wyatt and others, but throwing a vote to Tom. I think he's going to be damn good wherever they put him.

[BF004]

Tom and Nixon.

Tom is one of the starting 5 and our best lineman after Bak and Jenkins.

Nixon for both teams and now on d. He's electric

I think agree Tom is the best remaining OL.

Yet at the same time I feel like he is the most likely lineman of those 4 to be starting the year on the bench.

I think Myers is most likely to just keep starting/least likely to face real competition. Runyan next, so I kind of think it’s between Nijman and Tom for RT.

[bud fox]

I really hope one or more of stokes, Wyatt or quay are much higher on this list by the end of the year.

[Acrobat]

I really hope one or more of stokes, Wyatt or quay are much higher on this list by the end of the year.

We should actually hope they have great years but don't rise up the list because that would mean that everyone higher than them also had baller years.

[BF004]

I really hope one or more of stokes, Wyatt or quay are much higher on this list by the end of the year.

I agree and why I like voting for them now (and earlier).

We are not going to be a good team if AJ Dillon is more impactful than all 3 of these guys.

[bud fox]

I really hope one or more of stokes, Wyatt or quay are much higher on this list by the end of the year.

We should actually hope they have great years but don't rise up the list because that would mean that everyone higher than them also had baller years.

Touche - good point.

[YoHoChecko]

It would be one thing if he ended the year with a few games in a row with consistent good play, making you come away thinking 'oh yeah, the lightbulb just came on.' He was having a good game against the Lions, then he pulled a Burfict, when he should have learned from when he did that earlier in the year.

I agree with your on-field assessments and obviously, two shoving-related ejections were frustrating and inexcusable. But he had no history of being personal foul-prone in college and didn't seem to get into a bunch of skirmishes that fell short of penalties. And the final one, while aesthetically awful, was a player checking on his teammate and having an emotional outburst.

Like I said, inexcusable, but I really don't think the evidence points toward a Burfict-style label.

[TheSkeptic]

I chose Walker and Nixon. I could just as easily have chosen Doubs and Tom. Those 4 are coin flips for me now.

As for that ejection vs the Lions, watch this:

Now tell me why Reed did not get ejected for what he did at 50 seconds and why Wyatt did not get ejected for what he did at 2:39. It seems to me that all 3 should have been ejected and that Reed and Wyatt were being cheap shot artists while Walker could not control his emotions.

[NCF]

Now tell me why Reed did not get ejected for what he did at 50 seconds and why Wyatt did not get ejected for what he did at 2:39.

They didn't caught, I think, is the plain and simple explanation. It was a bad look all around and speaks to a pretty undisciplined defensive unit.