5 Most Ridiculous Rankings From Pro Football Focus' Top 101 NFL Players of 2019

For all of the work PFF does in analyzing the game, their annual "grades" are about as controversial as humanly possible, mostly due to the fact that some of the best statistical seasons are not recognized as such due to a vague, subjective grading process.

Their list of top 101 players from last season certainly has some surprising entires, as these five players are either far below where we expected them to be or are WAY too high in the rankings.

5. Packers QB Aaron Rodgers (83rd)

Here's a challenge for you: name 82 NFL players that are better than Aaron Rodgers. Even though the Green Bay Packers signal caller had a down year, both statistically and on film, are we really going to sit here and argue that the guy who helped a rookie head coach go 13-3 and make the NFC Championship Game while having the lowest interception percentage in the league is the seventh-best QB in football. FYI, Kirk Cousins was ranked above him.

4. Titans RB Derrick Henry (65th)

According to the folks over at PFF, there are 64 players and four running backs better than Henry. The Tennessee Titans running back led the league in rushing yards and touchdowns, all the while flattening the Patriots and Ravens in the playoffs, but that wasn't impressive enough for the PFF folks. Henry might get an Ezekiel Elliott-esque contract next season, but PFF seems to believe Austin Ekeler is clearly better.

3. Cardinals EDGE Chandler Jones (47th)

Jones has 60 sacks in 64 games as a Cardinal, and was one half-sack off the league lead with 19 this season, but PFF just barely squeaked him into the Top 50. Their justification for this travesty? he's just a good run defender rather than an elite one. On a bad defense that forced him to eat his fair share of double teams, Jones was a force every single snap, and his dominant 2019 deserved a lot more recognition than 47th place.

2. 49ers CB Richard Sherman (13th)

These grades were finalized before the Super Bowl. After watching Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins slice Sherman apart for 60 minutes, PFF probably wishes they had this grade back. While Sherman's resurgent season certainly should put him in the top 50, slotting him as the best corner in football at No. 13, ahead of Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore at No. 22, can generously be called questionable.

1. 49ers TE George Kittle (1st)

Is there another Shanahan running things over at PFF headquarters? I get that this means Kittle was the most influential player on a snap-to-snap basis rather than "the best", but putting the third-best tight end in the league at No. 1 can be called into question. No one is doubting Kittle's talent, but PFF might want to tweak the formula if whatever equation they have set up spits out Kittle as the most impactful player in the league.