Now that we’ve entered the long darkness between the draft and training camp, get ready for an endless succession of best-players lists. We need talkers and lists are how you generate talkers.
The internet loves lists. The internet loves arguing about lists.
Pro Football Focus is one of the best outfits at creating talker-worthy lists, because they are perceived as having a deep, thorough approach that gives their take credibility above those who simply throw together a top 100 based on what the eye-test and/or cursory statistical analysis tells them.
In other words, they do more work than you and me, so their list means something.