Rankings across any professional sport are almost always subjective, but that has never stopped people from engaging in debates as to what is right and wrong in the list. The NFL is finishing up their top 100 players list for the 2026 season.
The top 10 players will get ranked out next week, but we've decided to try and predict how the ranking looks. We do know the 10 players appearing on the list, so this won't be some random guessing.
All 10 players left are incredibly deserving, too, and this is a list voted on by the players themselves. Let's try to predict the top-10 ranking ahead of the real thing being announced next week.
Predicting the order of the final 10 players in the NFL Top 100 list for 2026
Before we get into the ranking, here is a list of the players left to appear:
The remaining 10 players on the NFL Top 100 listed in alphabetical order.
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Let's get into it.
10. Patrick Surtain II, CB, Denver Broncos
Patrick Surtain II is a regular on the NFL Top 100 at this point. He won the Defensive Player of the Year award last year but did miss some time in the 2025 regular season. Still, though, he emerged as a top-10 cornerback in the league during his rookie season and has elevated his game since.
It's early, but he's already on a Hall of Fame pace. If he can keep up this dominance through the rest of his age-20s seasons, Surtain will go down as, perhaps, the best CB in Denver Broncos history and one of the best of all-time.
9. Christian McCaffrey, RB, San Francisco 49ers
Christian McCaffrey is one of the best dual-threat running backs of this generation, and he took on an ultra-heavy workload for the San Francisco 49ers in the 2025 season. McCaffrey wasn't super efficient on the ground, but he was a huge receiving threat and the center of everthing the 49ers did on the offensive side of the ball.
McCaffrey comes in at No. 9 in our 'guess' power rankings for the final top 10. He is getting up there in age, though, which could lead to a decline in production.
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