Today focuses on a budding star in the 49ers’ secondary.
As a refresher, I mainly considered how each performance held up with the eye test. After going back and watching the game film, was it as impressive now as it was at the time?
I also weighed the game’s impact, meaning the stakes of each contest played a role in how these rankings ultimately panned out, and finally, good old-fashioned statistics. I also emphasized the objective numbers a player posted in their respective games.
Talanoa Hufanga @ Chicago Week 1
After being selected in the fifth round of the 2021 draft, Talanoa Hufanga had a meteoric rise culminating in a first team All-Pro nod in his second season in the NFL.