{"id":973697,"date":"2026-08-15T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/973697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:54:36","slug":"nfl-top-100-players-seahawks-sam-darnold-soars-to-21-after-super-bowl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/973697\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Top 100 Players: Seahawks\u2019 Sam Darnold soars to 21 after Super Bowl win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Darnold came in at 21, making a 51-spot jump from last years ranking, with glowing endorsements from some of the best defenders in the league, including Byron Murphy II who said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cTop five quarterback in the league. And not five either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Grey Zabel also gave his stamp of approval of Darnold, stating,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThat\u2019s my guy. That\u2019s my QB. That\u2019s a guy you want to go to war for and protect him at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Derek Stingley, Houston Texans star and one of the best cornerbacks in the league, had this to say about Darnold,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cNothing seems to rattle him. Like, if he has pressure in his face, it seems like he still somehow makes the right throw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He ranked fifth in the league in 2025 in passing yards with 4,048 yards as well as fifth in DVOA. He also tied for ninth in touchdown passes and tied for fourth in game winning drives in 2025. There are currently four quarterbacks that have yet to be unveiled, so by the players estimation, Darnold is the fifth best quarterback in the league (unless your name is Byron Murphy).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">What do you think? Is Darnold ranked to low? Too high? Or just right? Leave a comment and let\u2019s discuss! As Darnold said in the video, MOB on three!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darnold came in at 21, making a 51-spot jump from last years ranking, with glowing endorsements from some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,52201,84696,2635],"class_list":["post-973697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-seahawks","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","tag-seattle-seahawks-discussion","tag-seattleseahawks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117098686964077431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973697","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=973697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}