It’s Christmas in January. Again. Thanks to the tireless work of Mike Kania and the P-F-R staff, PFR has now generated the Approximate Values for every player in the NFL this year. For the uninitiated, you can review how AV is calculated here. And if you’re so inclined, you can thank Mike or PFR on twitter. (You can still thank Neil, although he has now officially moved on.)
Here’s a list of the top 100 players. AV is also listed for each player on each team’s roster page on PFR (for Seattle, it’s Richard Sherman). You can use the PFR player finder for all sorts of AV-related fun, too. For example, you could see the player with the most AV on your favorite team (for the Jets, it’s Muhammad Wilkerson), or by position (among wide receivers, it’s a three-way tie between Antonio Brown, Alshon Jeffery, and Demaryius Thomas), or by age (among those 35 or older, it’s Peyton Manning, or John Abraham for non-quarterbacks; Vontaze Burfict and Luke Kuechly lead the 23-and-younger crowd.)
Here’s a list of the 25 players with an AV of 15+ or greater:
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Rk | Player | Year | Age | Draft | Tm | G | GS | PB | AP1 | AV |
1 | Peyton Manning | 2013 | 37 | 1-1 | DEN | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
2 | Richard Sherman | 2013 | 25 | 5-154 | SEA | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
3 | Louis Vasquez | 2013 | 26 | 3-78 | DEN | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
4 | Navorro Bowman | 2013 | 25 | 3-91 | SFO | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
5 | Vontaze Burfict | 2013 | 23 | CIN | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 18 | |
6 | Luke Kuechly | 2013 | 22 | 1-9 | CAR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
7 | Drew Brees | 2013 | 34 | 2-32 | NOR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
8 | Jason Peters | 2013 | 31 | PHI | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 17 | |
9 | Jamaal Charles | 2013 | 27 | 3-73 | KAN | 15 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
10 | Karlos Dansby | 2013 | 32 | 2-33 | ARI | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
11 | Cam Newton | 2013 | 24 | 1-1 | CAR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
12 | Robert Quinn | 2013 | 23 | 1-14 | STL | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
13 | Philip Rivers | 2013 | 32 | 1-4 | SDG | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
14 | Tyron Smith | 2013 | 23 | 1-9 | DAL | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
15 | J.J. Watt | 2013 | 24 | 1-11 | HOU | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
16 | Muhammad Wilkerson | 2013 | 24 | 1-30 | NYJ | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
17 | Russell Wilson | 2013 | 25 | 3-75 | SEA | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
18 | Matt Forte | 2013 | 28 | 2-44 | CHI | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
19 | Greg Hardy | 2013 | 25 | 6-175 | CAR | 16 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
20 | Colin Kaepernick | 2013 | 26 | 2-36 | SFO | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
21 | Andrew Luck | 2013 | 24 | 1-1 | IND | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
22 | Robert Mathis | 2013 | 32 | 5-138 | IND | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
23 | LeSean McCoy | 2013 | 25 | 2-53 | PHI | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
24 | Patrick Peterson | 2013 | 23 | 1-5 | ARI | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
25 | Ndamukong Suh | 2013 | 26 | 1-2 | DET | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 15 |