NFL Trade Rumors
July is top 100 season in the NFL as everyone tries to kill the days until training camp and the start of the new season. Unfortunately, the official top 100 list from the league is not good. We’re not trying to hate; it’s just a well-accepted fact at this point in time.
For five years, we’ve been trying to do better. The time has come for the 2026 version of our NFL Trade Rumors Top 100 Players. Instead of using player polls, we aim to better reflect reality with traditional and advanced statistical analysis, evaluations from league personnel, positional value, awards, career trajectory and, of course, the good old-fashioned gut check. Our hope is to give more credit to players who are overlooked, either because they don’t play a glamorous position or because they’re not household names (yet).
We’ll have updates daily over the next couple of weeks, so keep checking back!
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Injuries suck. In the fourth game of the 2017 season, the Giants lost superstar WR Odell Beckham Jr. to a season-ending injury and his career would never be the same after that. In the fourth game of the 2025 season, another young budding star Giants receiver in Nabers crumpled to the turf with a major injury.
Hopefully this time the outcome is different. Nabers’ rookie season wasn’t quite as good as Beckham’s, but it speaks volumes that he did enough to put himself in the conversation with 109 catches, 1,204 yards and seven scores. In Year 2, he was off to a tremendous start with 18 catches, 271 yards and two scores in three-and-a-half games. It’s tough to prorate that small of a sample size over a full season but Nabers’ ESPN open score of 74, 10th among all wideouts, offers a little glimpse of the sky-high potential that’s still there — as long as Nabers can make it back. Months after his injury, it still seems like there’s a ways for him to go in his rehab, and it’s possible we don’t see peak Nabers again for a while.
Thuney was exactly what the Bears were hoping for when they traded for him last year, prying him away from the Chiefs who had to make some hard business decisions. In his age-33 season, Thuney was named a first-team AP All-Pro for the third straight season. He started all 17 games, plus the playoffs, and was one of just two interior offensive linemen to rank inside the top 10 in both pass block and run block win rate (he finished top three in both for good measure)....
