Underrated AFC players, plus top 20 safeties entering 2024 and ranking the NFL’s greatest dynasties

Jordan Dajani here for your daily NFL news roundup, and I hope you and yours had a fantastic Fourth of July. I pray your beers were more plentiful than the safeties on the free agent market, your wines aged like Tom Brady and the fireworks more explosive than the Miami Dolphins offense against a team that won’t be making the playoffs.

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1. Underappreciated players on each AFC team

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The NFL may appear to be built on star power, but it is very much a team game. The league possesses plenty of underappreciated talent, so our Tyler Sullivan decided to go through every AFC team and select one player flying under the radar that shouldn’t be. Here are a few players he highlighted: 

Buffalo Bills- CB Christian Benford: “If you’re outside of Buffalo, you may not know who Christian Benford is yet, but he’s slated to take on a rather significant workload in the Bills secondary in 2024. After Tre’Davious White departed in free agency, Benford is in line to take on a starting spot on the boundary opposite Rasul Douglas. The former sixth-round pick out of Villanova started 14 of his 15 regular season games for the Bills last season. In that stretch, he broke up 10 passes, recorded two interceptions and held opposing quarterbacks to a respectable 88.8 passer rating when targeting him.”

Kansas City Chiefs- LB Drue Tranquill: “Tranquill ended up being a key piece for the Chiefs en route to their second consecutive Super Bowl title last season, especially when fellow linebacker Nick Bolton missed time due to a wrist injury in…


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Author : Jordan Dajani

Publish date : 2024-07-05 16:59:06

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