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July is the driest month of the year when it comes to NFL news, which makes it the perfect time for something like a top 100 players list. For the fourth straight year, we’re happy to bring you our 2025 NFLTR Top 100 Players.
We’re not the only outlet that does a top 100 — NFL Media has done one with at least some democratic input from current players since 2011 — but our goal is to give more credit to players and positions that are often easy to overlook, especially in the trenches. We build it using traditional and advanced statistics, awards, positional value, career trajectory and a good old-fashioned dash of the eye test. Our list won’t be perfect but the goal is to give as much credit where it’s due as possible.
We’ll be rolling this list out over the next couple of weeks, so keep checking back for updates to our 2025 NFLTR Top 100 Players list.
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Mailata’s remarkable NFL story just continues to add chapters, as the former seventh-round rugby player who got his shot via the International Player Pathway keeps getting better and better, year after year. He represents so much of what has made Philadelphia’s offensive line the gold standard for the league over the last few seasons, from raw size, power and athleticism at 6-8 and over 360 pounds, to how his development blossomed under elite OL coach Jeff Stoutland and his eye for talent. Mailata has been a mainstay in the starting lineup since 2020 and has been an asset as a run blocker for most of that time. It’s his strides as a pass protector that have helped him climb the pecking order of the league’s top tackles, however.
Not only was Mailata the NFL’s top-graded tackle last year per PFF, he had the second-best pass blocking grade of his peers per the service. ESPN charted Mailata with a 92 percent pass block win rate, ranking 14th in the NFL, and PFF had him at a career-high 97.8 efficiency in pass protection. Mailata also tied a career high with a 96.9 efficiency in true pass sets — plays where the pass rush has no threat of a run to worry about — ranking eighth out of 83 tackles. Still in the midst of his prime at 28 years old, Mailata has established himself as one of the league’s best tackles.
The stats don’t quite do Nacua justice for how outstanding he was last year. He missed six games, so his raw totals of 79 catches for 990 yard don’t leap off...
