Rick Gosselin has covered the NFL for nearly a half-century and is universally considered the guru of special teams. Each year, he publishes his Special Teams Rankings, which factors in 22 different categories and results in a numbered grade.
“I love Rick Gosselin,” Detroit Lions special teams coordinator Dave Fipp told the Lions media in early December. “He does a great job, for years. I think the world of him. He’s reached out to me time-to-time. I have a lot of respect for the rankings that he does. I really mean that.
“His rankings come out at the end of the season, so people use those at the end of the season.