NFL Top 100 Players 2026: The List So Far, Rankings & Biggest Snubs

NFL.com has now published 90 of the 100 places on the Top 100 Players of 2026 — everything from No. 100 down to No. 11. The top 10 starts on Monday and finishes on 4 September.

Friday 21 August was the last day of the two-a-day reveals that began on 22 June. What is left is the part everyone argues about.

When does the NFL Top 100 top 10 come out?

One player per weekday, starting Monday 24 August at 10 a.m. ET, ending with No. 1 on Friday 4 September.

That schedule is NFL’s own: it states that one top-10 player is unveiled each weekday at 10 a.m. ET from 24 August through 4 September. Ten players over ten weekdays lands exactly on No. 1 on the final day, which is the check that the order runs downward as it has all summer.

The reveal happens on X and NFL+, which is worth knowing if you have been waiting for a television countdown show.

Who is on the NFL Top 100 list for 2026?

All 90 published places, with each player’s move since the 2025 list.

A dash means the player was not in last year’s top 100 at all.

Who moved the most?

Lamar Jackson fell 67 places, from No. 2 to No. 69.

That is the largest move in either direction on the published list, and it is the kind of swing this vote produces when a season goes sideways: the players are ranking last year, not next year.

Saquon Barkley’s fall is the more symbolic one. He was No. 1 on the 2025 list. He is No. 34 on this one.

Going the other way, James Cook climbed 69 places to No. 20 after leading the league in rushing, and Christian Gonzalez rose 56 to No. 28. Sam Darnold gained 51 and Dak Prescott 48 — two quarterbacks whose 2025 seasons repaired reputations that the 2025 list had already marked down.

Travis Kelce is at No. 79, down 42, and A.J. Brown at No. 80, down 51.

How much of the list is new?

A third of it. Thirty-three of the 90 players published were not ranked in 2025.

That turnover is the single most useful number for reading this list. It is not a stable ranking that shifts a few places a year, and the churn is concentrated at the bottom: nine of the ten places from 91 to 100 are held by players who were not ranked in 2025, and seven of the ten from 81 to 90.

Quarterbacks are the largest group with 16 of the 90 — and that is before the top 10, which will almost certainly add more. Edge rushers are next with 14, then wide receivers and linebackers with 13 each.

Six Philadelphia Eagles appear in the published 90, more than any other team, with Carolina, Houston, Detroit, Denver and Baltimore on five each.

Who are the biggest snubs?

At least eleven well-known players are already out — and you can prove that without guessing who is in the top 10.

Here is the arithmetic. Twenty-one names that any preseason conversation would treat as top-100 players do not appear anywhere in the 90 published places:

Twenty-one candidates, ten places. Whatever the top 10 turns out to be, at least eleven of those names are not in the Top 100 of 2026 at all.

⚠️ What this page will not do is name them. Every article that publishes a confident snub list this week is guessing at the same ten unknown slots. The honest version is the count, not the names — check back after 4 September and the arithmetic becomes a list.

One name is worth flagging as a near-snub rather than a snub. Lamar Jackson is on the list, at No. 69. For a two-time MVP, being ranked below sixty-eight other players is a harsher verdict from his peers than being left off entirely would have been.

What is the NFL Top 100 actually measuring?

A vote by the players, on last season.

NFL describes the Top 100 as voted on by the players themselves, and every entry on the 2026 list is accompanied by that player’s 2025 statistics. Two things follow.

It is backward-looking. The 2026 in the name is the season the list is published for, not the season it judges. Rookies from the 2026 draft class cannot appear; players who missed most of 2025 fall a long way regardless of how good they are.

It is a popularity-adjacent measure, not a model. Voters are teammates and opponents with partial views of the league, which is why the same list can hold a 67-place fall and a 69-place climb in the same year. That is a feature of the method, not an error in it.

Bottom line

Ninety places are public and ten are not. The top 10 arrives one name per weekday from Monday 24 August, and No. 1 lands on Friday 4 September.

The published list is defined by turnover: a third of it is new, Lamar Jackson has fallen from second to 69th, last year’s No. 1 is 34th, and 16 of the 90 are quarterbacks.

And the snub question already has a provable answer even though it does not yet have names — twenty-one obvious players, ten remaining places, at least eleven left out.

Sources

Checked on Friday 21 August 2026, after the Nos. 20-11 article went up and before the top 10 began. The remaining ten places will change every weekday until 4 September.