NFL1000: Ranking the Top 1,000 Players from Week 5

October 13, 2016   ·   Doug Farrar   ·   Jump to comments

The 5-0 Minnesota Vikings are the lone undefeated team remaining in the 2016 NFL season, and our top player in this week’s NFL1000 should give the rest of the league pause. We know that head coach Mike Zimmer’s team has a stellar defense with playmakers at every level—defense is Zimmer’s stock in trade, and he has done a brilliant job in that regard. But it’s quarterback Sam Bradford, acquired by Minnesota after it lost Teddy Bridgewater for the season, who could be the difference when playoff time comes around.
Bradford’s history is well-known. He was amazing at Oklahoma but struggled to find his feet in a series of restrictive offenses in St. Louis. His move to Philadelphia in 2015 allowed him to start to show the kind of quarterback he could be. And when Vikings general manager Rick Spielman traded two draft picks, including his 2017 first-rounder, for Bradford in early September, the perfect marriage of player and scheme was on.
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