For the majority of lay fans, a team is composed of the good players who people universally believe are the reason why the team is good, and bad players who routinely get their mistakes magnified during broadcasts and local talk radio shows. The middle tier is less discussed, despite their utmost importance. Most of the best NFL teams are great because of a foundational middle tier of players who, for one reason or another, are considered “middle tier” because we don’t pay enough attention to their individual efforts to ascertain how important they really are in the grand scheme of things.
Every AFC Team's Most Underrated Player
