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Readers pick their most underrated player in NFL
By Gregg Rosenthal
So the powerful wizards behind the NFL's social media accounts asked a simple question on Tuesday: Who is the most underrated player in the NFL?
The question pairs nicely with Elliot's Harrison's "All-Underrated Team," a squad that makes a lot of sense. Our readers are a different matter. To the results, from 6,586 users on Facebook:
1. Tim Tebow: 15.1%
2. Tony Romo: 13%
3. Von Miller: 7.6%
4. Matt Ryan: 7.1%
5. Russell Wilson: 6.9%
6. Alex Smith: 5.5%
7. Joe Flacco: 5.5%
8. Cam Newton: 4.8%
9. Tom Brady: 4.2%
10. Steven Jackson: 3.9%
Yeah, I'm speechless. The results were so surprising that our crack staff re-checked the results many times. Tim Tebow is a lot of things, but "underrated" as a player is not the first one that comes to mind. My strong guess: Tebow and Romo also would land near the top of many "overrated" lists. (For the record, I like seeing Romo so high. He's been knocked too much. He'd have a lot more playoff success if he played for a different organization.)
Let's go to the Twitter results:
1. Matt Ryan: 30.3%
2. Ben Roethlisberger: 21.9%
3. Sean Lee: 14.8%
4. Tony Romo: 6.9%
5. London Fletcher: 4.7%
6. Cam Newton: 4.0%
7. Stevan Ridley: 3.8%
8. Alex Smith: 3.6%
9. Marques Colston: 3.1%
10. Antonio Cromartie: 2.6%
The lesson, as always: Twitter users are a lot smarter than Facebook users on average. Sean Lee is an inspired choice to be third. Roethlisberger absolutely belongs so high; he didn't even make the Facebook list. Ridley, Colston and Fletcher also were nice choices.
Thanks, that's all I'm saying.Was horribly overrated in Denver when he was winning, but is underrated in the sense that people think he's not a chance as a starter despite him having shown in Denver that he's worth a shot at least (but that said, he doesn't belong on the above list). Was also very harshly done by in NY.
Hope he ends up with Jacksonville. He is better then the 2 Quarterbacks they got.
sorry to talk about football ( ) but I think tebow is almost certain to be playing at jax next year if the jags don't improve with gabbert.
I just can't fathom why people who saw his last 2 months at Denver are still saying he's no good.
Number 1 quality in a good quarterback? He wins...
As A FB at best... I'm on the MATT SCOTT pre-bandwagon for the Jags QB. GG is likely to be pressing for the same claim I believe.
Thanks, that's all I'm saying.
He's no Tom Brady but he can definitely win games and brings a reliability in close games. There's no way he's been given a fair opportunity at New York and yet has been dealt a huge amount of trash talk. I really think he'd surprise people with a full season at starter. I know not all college stars make it but we're talking about arguably the best college player ever (at least stats wise) and he's never been given a full season to start. Has he's flaws but I think he would have done better than some 2012 starting QBs.
If it weren't for the circus and Peyton getting his neck broke (blessing in disguise) he'd still be starting for the Broncos. He'd probably still be backup if it weren't for the circus.Indeed, he did very well with 3/4 of a season as one. He has flaws, but so do a lot of "developmental" QBs out there, yet apparently he's un-fixable.
He's also no worse a passer than half the back-ups in the league, yet he has the running ability (and the leadership) to somewhat compensate. Would at worst be useful as a 3rd-string QB and 2-pt conversion specialist (I'm guessing his percentage on those is a fair bit higher than average).
Would be disappointing to not see him get a chance somewhere, his major downside is the circus, which isn't even his fault.
“If he wants to come to Canada he would be in the same situation as the one he was in with New York,” Popp said, via Dave Naylor of TSN.ca. “He can come here and compete to be the backup to Anthony Calvillo and learn the game, just like Jeff Garcia did [behind Doug Flutie]. And one day he might be the guy; that’s our vision. He can learn from the best.”
Wow, TT needs to ditch the QB dream and come down to reality like Denard Robinson did. He would not start in Canada! Arena league anyone?