Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones is 11th in “The Top 100 Players of 2020.” The former Alabama standout is making his sixth consecutive appearance on the annual Top 100 list, selected for the NFL Network by a survey of league players.
The 2020 ranking is Jones’ first in the top 10 since he entered n. 13th in 2015. Jones ranked eighth in 2016, third in 2017, fourth in 2018, and ninth in 2019.
Despite having only 10 players ahead in the 2020 ranking, Jones will not be the best receiver this year. The NFL released the names, but not the order, of the top 10 players, and included wide receivers DeAndre Hopkins of the Arizona Cardinals and Michael Thomas of the New Orleans Saints.
Jones’ range was revealed Tuesday night, when the NFL Network introduced players ranked 11-40. Also featured on Tuesday night’s presentation was the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill at No. 22 and Pittsburgh Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick at No. 35.
Hill is a prominent standout in western Alabama, and like Jones, Fitzpatrick is an Alabama student. Four other former Crimson Tide stars have appeared in the 2020 standings: Baltimore Ravens running back Mark Ingram at No. 44, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper at No. 49, Las Vegas running back. Raiders Josh Jacobs at number 72 and Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey at n. 86.
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The Green Bay Packers, outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith, a Greenville High School alumnus, reached number 48 in this year’s ranking. Jones prepared at Foley and Humphrey prepared at Hoover.
NFL Network will countdown the top 10 starting at 7 p.m. CDT on Wednesday.
Jones completed his seventh Pro Bowl season and earned PFWA All-NFL honors by catching 99 passes for 1,394 yards and six touchdowns in 2019. During the season, Jones became the 27th player in the NFL with 12,000 receiving yards on his career, and he needs 17 fewer games than any of the others to reach the milestone. In the second game of 2019, Jones broke Roddy White’s franchise record for receiving yards, and at the end of the season, Jones had more receiving yards than any other player in NFL history in his first nine seasons.
Hill made his fourth consecutive appearance in the top 100. It is ranked number 35 in 2017, number 40 in 2018 and number 19 in 2019.
A fourth NFL season meant a fourth Pro Bowl invitation in 2019 for Hill, who added the Super Bowl champion to his NFL resume when the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in the title game. of the NFL.
Hill suffered a posterior dislocation of the sternoclavicular joint in the first game of the season and missed the following four contests. Hill caught 58 tackles for 860 yards and seven touchdowns in the regular season and 17 passes for 213 yards and two touchdowns in the postseason, including a 44-yard reception in the third quarter that sparked the Chiefs’ Super Bowl return.
Fitzpatrick made his first appearance in the top 100 after his second season in the NFL.
The Miami Dolphins traded Fitzpatrick to Pittsburgh two games in the 2019 season. Parked in safety with the Steelers instead of playing throughout the high school as he had with Miami, Fitzpatrick earned an invitation to the Pro Bowl and first team recognition All -Pro. In 2019, Fitzpatrick made 68 tackles, intercepted five passes, broke nine passes, forced two fumbles and recovered three fumbles. He returned an interception and a fumble for touchdowns.
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill catches a touchdown pass against the Tennessee Titans during the AFC Championship Game on January 19, 2020, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.AP Photo / Charlie Riedel
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ AMarkG1.
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