NFL: Brady picked No. 1 by league’s players.
Rodgers ranked No. 6 by players
Tom Brady has won an unprecedented four Super Bowl MVP awards. He’s a two-time NFL MVP. No other quarterback owns five Super Bowl rings.
And now the New England Patriots star is the first player to be twice voted No. 1 by his peers on NFL Network’s annual Top 100 list.
Monday night, Brady was revealed atop The Top 100 Players of 2017, a list solely calculated from the votes of active players and seeking to project who will be the best performers of the upcoming season while honoring players’ past accomplishments.
Two other quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers and reigning league MVP Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons, cracked this year’s top 10. Rodgers is ranked sixth.
The honor comes after a season that Brady began with a four-game suspension for his alleged role in the Deflategate scandal but ended with him leading the Patriots back from a 25-point second-half deficit in Super Bowl LI to become the first team to win the game in overtime.
Young rips Fisher, Fitzpatrick: Former NFL quarterback and college football phenom Vince Young, whose comeback with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League was cut short this year when he suffered a torn hamstring, opened up to Sports Illustrated about the events that pushed him out of the league and to file for bankruptcy. In doing so, he ripped former Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher and current NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Young blasted Fitzpatrick, who recently signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers despite being third in the league in interceptions with the New York Jets in 2016.
“I’d see a quarterback and be like, ‘Dude is garbage, and I’m over here in the kitchen cooking turkey necks,’” Young told Sports Illustrated. “I hate to name-drop, but Fitzpatrick is still playing!?”
Young, who had a rocky relationship with Fisher during their time together on the Titans from 2006-’10, tried to refrain from criticizing his former coach by noting, “I’m saving that for my book.” But Young went on to call Fisher “jealous” and “envious.”