NFLTR Insider: Top 100 Players, Summer Scouting, Barrett, NFL Buzz

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Top 100 - 2024 NFL Players List

The complete 2024 NFLTR Top 100 Players is in the books and we've got the full list below, along with loads more content like honorable mentions, a team-by-team breakdown and links to the full writeups for each section.

This is the third year we've done the series, and you can find the past Top 100's here. Here's a quick rundown of the top 25.

Summer NFL Draft Scouting

Our Ethan Woodley has been looking ahead to the 2025 NFL draft class in his Summer Scouting series. Here’s a collection of links to his early positional rankings:

• QBs

• RBs

• WRs

• TEs

• OTs

• IOL

• DTs

• EDGE

• LBs

• CBs

Shaq Barrett

• Dolphins EDGE Shaquil Barrett informed the team of his decision to retire this past weekend, despite joining the team in March.

• Barrett cited a desire to spend more time with his family in an explanation on his Instagram.

Buzz

• Steelers OC Arthur Smith was not interested in joining the Jets in a senior offensive role because of how vaguely the role was defined with current OC Nathaniel Hackett set to remain on staff. Hackett will return and says he’s expecting much better things in Year 2 of his system. (NFLTR)

• Cowboys executive VP Stephen Jones told Dianna Russini and Chase Daniel with The Athletic that Dallas hopes to pull a Houdini to keep all three of Dak Prescott, Ceedee Lamb and Micah Parsons. (NFLTR)

• Washington’s defensive coaches have been talking up how hard former first-round CB Emmanuel Forbes is working, notable given Forbes’ struggles as a rookie and the exit of the regime that drafted him. (NFLTR)

• Browns G Wyatt Teller says he sees glimpses of the old Deshaun Watson. (NFLTR)

• Bears HC Matt Eberflus hyped up first-round WR Rome Odunze, while GM Ryan Poles weighed in on expectations for Caleb Williams to just lean on the talent they have around him and not have to carry the team. (NFLTR)

• Vikings TE T.J. Hockenson says rehab is going well and is on schedule. (NFLTR)

• Panthers LB Shaq Thompson acknowledged the changes on defense were tough for him to handle personally this offseason, and left unsaid between the lines is that it could be his Thompson’s final year in Carolina. (NFLTR)

• Chiefs IPP Louis Rees-Zammit claims he has timed in the 4.2-4.3 range before. (NFLTR)

Transactions

• Packers Signed DT Kenny Clark To Three-Year, $64M Extension

• Saints Signed WR Rashid Shaheed To One-Year, $5.2M Extension

• Chiefs Activated RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire From NFI List

• Texans Signed RB Cam Akers

• Vikings Signing First-Round EDGE Dallas Turner

• Dolphins Working Out OLB Emmanuel Ogbah Monday

• Lions Place Three Players On PUP List

• Packers Place Three On NFI List

• Broncos Place Three Players On PUP List