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Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back Jalen Ramsey landed at No. 82 on the NFL Network’s annual Top 100 Players list. Ramsey was ranked No. 66 in 2025, No. 25 in 2024 and has appeared on the list every year since 2017.
The Top 100 Players list is voted on by the players. Ramsey is the first Steelers player to make the list.
In 17 starts last season, Ramsey recorded 88 tackles, including 53 solo stops, eight passes defended, one interception, four tackles for a loss and three sacks.
Ramsey joined the Steelers last offseason after being dealt by the Miami Dolphins. He has appeared in 152 career games, starting 151, with 116 passes defended and 26 interceptions.
Ramsey has received first-team All-Pro honors three times. He is also an eight-time Pro Bowler.
New Steelers’ associate head coach and secondary coach Joe Whitt Jr. compared Ramsey to Hall of Famer Charles Woodson, who played under the coach from 2009-12. He described him as a “multi-positional player.”
“His skillset lends himself to doing that,” Whitt said during OTAs. “I’m not gonna really compare him to a guy that I coached, but the way we used Charles Woodson in Green Bay, he played the ‘star’, he played corner, he played safety, he played the ‘money.’ He did those things. Charles could do it all in one game. He’s one of the rare guys that could do it.
“Jalen has a similar skillset, similar size, similar speed, so just excited to see how we could work with him, and the way that we could use him.”
Ramsey has looked up to Woodson for a while now. Woodson stacked up three first-team Associated Press All-Pro nods and earned the 2009 AP Defensive Player of the Year award. He transitioned to safety from the boundary later in his odyssey.
“Probably favorite player ever. Favorite DB, for sure,” Ramsey said last year on “The Pivot Podcast.” “When I used to play nickel at Florida State my sophomore year, I used to go have the video crew go get me clips of Charles playing nickel. So, from then, I started watching him and just studying him. … Just his mindset on things.
“I’ve always wanted my career to look more like that than anybody else. If I had to pick one person that I want my career to look like, it’s always been him, whether that is 12 years, 15, 18, whatever. I’ve always seen my career looking like that.”
Brendan Howe contributed.
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