{"id":140904,"date":"2025-06-19T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/140904\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:11:10","slug":"one-patriots-player-made-cbs-sports-top-100-player-rankings-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/140904\/","title":{"rendered":"One Patriots Player Made CBS Sports&#8217; Top-100 Player Rankings For 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots are out to improve significantly in 2025, even if they don\u2019t possess many nationally recognized stars.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports insider Pete Prisco released his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/priscos-nfl-top-100-players-of-2025-saquon-barkley-cracks-top-5-five-other-rbs-make-top-50-4-qbs-in-top-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top-100 NFL player rankings<\/a> on Tuesday. Prisco included 10 Philadelphia Eagles but highlighted just one Patriots player following a four-win campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Gonzalez took the No. 62 spot in Prisco\u2019s rankings. The 22-year-old places fifth among cornerbacks behind Patrick Surtain II (No. 9), Derek Stingley Jr. (No. 23), Sauce Gardner (No. 24) and Trent McDuffie (No. 46).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his second season with the Patriots, Gonzalez emerged as an elite cover player,\u201d Prisco wrote. \u201cHe should only get better and his pairing with Carlton Davis will give the Pats a nice 1-2 corner combo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A torn labrum halted Gonzalez\u2019s rookie season after just four games, but the No. 17 pick returned strong in 2024. Gonzalez earned a second-team All-Pro nod with 11 pass break-ups, two interceptions, and a fumble recovery. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GonzCh00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stymied opponents<\/a> to a 55.7 completion percentage and 6.0 yards per target in pass coverage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fans will be happy to see Gonzalez, who didn\u2019t make the Pro Bowl, at least receive some national praise. Earlier this month, Pro Football Focus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-cornerback-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked him<\/a> as the No. 13 cornerback after <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/05\/patriots-star-defender-snubbed-from-offseason-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">excluding Gonzalez<\/a> from its top-25 players under 25. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, none of Gonzalez\u2019s teammates joined him on Prisco\u2019s top 100. Last year, Christian Barmore (No. 70) was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/top-100-nfl-players-of-2024-lamar-jackson-maxx-crosby-make-big-climbs-in-priscos-rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only Patriots player<\/a> ranked. Blood clots limited the defensive tackle to four games last season after he tallied 7.5 sacks in a breakout 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez can solidify his status as one of the league\u2019s top corners with a successful third season, and perhaps some other Pats will catch Prisco\u2019s attention for next year\u2019s rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots are out to improve significantly in 2025, even if they don\u2019t possess many nationally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[6032,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-140904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-christian-gonzalez","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}