Seven Former Ohio State Players Make NFL’s Top 100 Players of 2023

By Dan Hope on August 7, 2023 at 10:06 pm
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Seven former Ohio State football players have been ranked among the NFL’s top 100 players entering the 2023 season.

Ohio State has the second-most players of any school, behind only Alabama, on the NFL’s Top 100 Players of 2023, this year’s edition of the annual countdown of the league’s best players as voted on by NFL players. 

Nick Bosa leads Ohio State’s contingent on the list as the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year was ranked as the league’s fourth-best player, moving 21 spots up the list after he was ranked 25th in 2022. Bosa is the top-ranked defensive player on this year’s list, coming in behind only Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts.

Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cameron Heyward, fresh off of his sixth consecutive Pro Bowl appearance, is the second-highest-ranked Buckeye on the list, coming in as the 45th-best player in the league.

Bosa’s older brother Joey is ranked as the league’s 70th-best player despite an injury-plagued 2022 season in which he played in only five regular-season games due to groin surgery.

Garrett Wilson makes his debut in the NFL’s Top 100 after just one year in the league, ranking 74th among all NFL players after winning Offensive Rookie of the Year honors with an 83-catch, 1,103-yard, four-touchdown first season with the New York Jets.

Justin Fields also makes his first appearance in the NFL’s Top 100 this year, coming in as the league’s 86th-ranked player after he ran for 1,143 yards – the second-most ever by an NFL quarterback in a single season – and eight touchdowns while also throwing for 2,242 yards and 17 touchdowns in his second season with the Chicago Bears.

Marshon Lattimore is ranked as the NFL’s 89th-best player for the second year in a row as he makes his fourth consecutive appearance on the list. Terry McLaurin rounds out Ohio State’s contingent on the countdown as the Washington Commanders wide receiver, who made his first Pro Bowl in 2022, is ranked as the league’s 94th-best player.

Alabama leads all schools with 12 former players on this year’s edition of the NFL’s Top 100. Ohio State’s seven players were two more than any other school, as Clemson and Oklahoma tied for the third-most players on the list with five each.

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