NFL Week 17 Practice Squad Power Rankings: Indulging on New Year’s Eve

What’s your traditional New Year’s Eve dinner? Do you go out? If you stay in and cook — do you make your favorite dish? Do you splurge on filet mignon or NY strip and seafood? Crack open some top-shelf drinks to usher in the new year in style?

The latter is what my in-laws always do — steak, crab legs, sometimes some lobster, and primo whiskey — and since Christmas night, I’ve been trying to decide what I should buy at the grocery store to begin a special culinary New Year’s Eve tradition of my own.

At time of publication, with time running excruciatingly short in 2023, I still don’t know what to prepare for Sunday night after what I’m guessing will be another wild weekend of NFL action. Heck, all 16 games include at least one club still in playoff contention … that basically never happens in the penultimate week of the regular season. 

Because I’m being so indecisive about my New Year’s Eve food choices, I’ll be assertive when it comes to the New Year’s Eve edition of The Practice Squad Power Rankings. Because it’s customary to eat your favorite indulgent food before the start of the new year, I’m going to indulge in Week 17’s PSPR with all former immense draft crushes I’ve had since I started evaluating full draft classes in 2014. Even if I know there’s little to no chance of them actually getting The Call, they deserve some shine. And going all draft crushes this week will serve as at least one major indulgence for me I’m sure of entering Sunday. 

Before I get to Week 17’s rankings, there were two elevations from Week 15 — Dolphins EDGE Melvin Ingram and Steelers LB Myles Jack, meaning we’re at 26 elevation + poaches on the season [insert cork popping from champagne bottle GIF here].

And let’s not forget to once again pay homage to Practice Squad Power Ranking alums like Saints TE Juwan Johnson, 49ers wideout Jauan Jennings, Cardinals center Hjalte…


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Author : Chris Trapasso

Publish date : 2023-12-29 13:07:01

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