Vontae appears #59 on NFL Top 100 List

[12isthenew18]

Lands at 59

[12isthenew18]

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-top100-2015/0ap3000000495487/Top-100-Players-of-2015-No-59-Vontae-Davis

[Hoosiernsavga]

I figured he would be around high 40's - 55 so pretty close.

[12isthenew18]

only ones i think you can put ahead or argue are grimes, trufant, rhodes, norman, revis, sherman, harris, haden. I think vontae is above all but revis

[mattceinicram]

It makes sense, it's voted by players.

[CR91]

basically where I expected vontae to be. I expect hilton will be on next week

[bananabucket]

At least he's on the list.  I see him as top 40

[bestQBever]

I wonder who's ahead of him... Harris Jr, Sherman, Revis,peterson for sure... then grimes, talib. Just wait till next year, he will be a top 30 player and a top 3 corner. ( already is but he will get recognized ).

[Andrew Luck's Beard]

only ones i think you can put ahead or argue are grimes, trufant, rhodes, norman, revis, sherman, harris, haden. I think vontae is above all but revis

Norman? Who's that? And I don't think Trufant should be mentioned with the other guys you listed.

[NewColtsFan]

I was hoping Vonte would reach the top 50,  but that's hard to do when you've never been in the top-100 before.

 

So, if Vonte can have another very good year,  perhaps next year he'll reach the 40's....    that would be nice for him......

[bananabucket]

I wonder who's ahead of him... Harris Jr, Sherman, Revis,peterson for sure... then grimes, talib. Just wait till next year, he will be a top 30 player and a top 3 corner. ( already is but he will get recognized ).

 

 

it would be a joke if Peterson is above Vontae.  IMO the only ones with arguments are Revis, Sherman, and Harris (in that order).

[ColtsLegacy]

it would be a joke if Peterson is above Vontae. IMO the only ones with arguments are Revis, Sherman, and Harris (in that order).

The list is a joke every year, so what else is new?

[Narcosys]

Found this article when debating Davis' place on the list.  Would love to hear some feedback from everyone else on it.

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/film-room/2014/film-room-vontae-davis

[ColtsLegacy]

Found this article when debating Davis' place on the list. Would love to hear some feedback from everyone else on it.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/film-room/2014/film-room-vontae-davis

Considering that was posted after week ~5 of the season and we now know after all 16 weeks Davis didn't give up a TD all season and he had the worst QB rating against him amongst CBs and he does it almost exclusively on an island . . . The author of that FO piece can kindly kiss my *.

[Superman]

Found this article when debating Davis' place on the list.  Would love to hear some feedback from everyone else on it.

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/film-room/2014/film-room-vontae-davis

 

I'm not really interested in where Davis is ranked on this list. But I would like to point something out. Per FO's breakdown (based on presnapreads.com's charting and grading), they discerned Davis had 89 qualifying man coverage snaps through the first five games of the 2014 season. That's 17.8 / game.

 

Per the same source, in 2013 -- the best year of Richard Sherman's career, most would say -- Sherman had a total of 238 qualifying man coverage snaps. Over a 19 game season (including their playoff run), that's 12.5 / game. Based on that alone, it suggests that Sherman has man coverage responsibilities about 70% as much as Davis.

 

As an aside, the Seahawks coverages often look like man when they really aren't, so we're using the best judgment of someone else; I wonder how many of those qualifying man coverage snaps are actually zone. Davis plays in a defense that almost never plays zone. The Colts also played fewer total defensive snaps in 2014 than the Seahawks did in 2013.

 

This just illustrates that Sherman plays less man coverage than Davis (and the other top notch corners).

 

http://presnapreads.com/2014/02/19/richard-sherman-the-numbers-the-tape-the-verdict-2014/

[Caleb3502]

Norman? Who's that? And I don't think Trufant should be mentioned with the other guys you listed.

He might mean Josh Norman, CB for the Panthers.

[ColtsLegacy]

He might mean Josh Norman, CB for the Panthers.

Which begs the question, who the hell would argue Josh Norman is better than Vontae Davis?

[Dark Superman]

For a guy who didn't give up a passing TD all season and didn't have Robert Mathis bull rushing the QB.. I'd say he should have made the top 50. The guy can tackle as well and had some pretty decent hits as well.

[Dark Superman]

Which begs the question, who the hell would argue Josh Norman is better than Vontae Davis?

Josh Norman. lol

[BlueShoe]

If we want to be realistic about it then Vontae is a top 10 player in the NFL. 

[COLTS449]

This isn't right. Vontae should be ranked quite a bit higher than 59. Top 25-30 anyways. I don't care what anyone says, Vontae Davis is the 2nd best CB in the league behind only Revis.

[COLTS449]

Who's talking about Josh Norman? Come on. He's not a bad corner, but he isn't a top tier CB either. He's not even a real number 1. The top corners are Revis - Davis - Sherman - Harris Jr, and after that its debatable between several others like Grimes, Haden, etc. The way Jimmy Smith looked the year before last he'd be the 5th best corner.

[bananabucket]

If we want to be realistic about it then Vontae is a top 10 player in the NFL. 

 

 

That's probably pushing it.  He probably played like one last season but let's see if he can sustain that level of play.

[tvturner]

Vontae Davis allowed a completion % of just 43.7, best in the NFL among starting CB's. pic.twitter.com/crlJoz0nLJ

— Pro Football Focus (@PFF)

July 5, 2015

[Jules]

At least he is on there.

 

He can be underrated like crazy, we all know this. People who really study the Colts though and know this team know how valuable and good he is.

[CR91]

For a guy who didn't give up a passing TD all season and didn't have Robert Mathis bull rushing the QB.. I'd say he should have made the top 50. The guy can tackle as well and had some pretty decent hits as well.

 

just ask gio bernard

[pgt_rob]

just ask gio bernard

[wesd2890]

Vontae wont get recognized til he starts covering the best wide out.. haden , peterson and revis do what the best are spose to do.. Sherman get recognized for his amazing hands, which leads to big plays.. vontae just doesnt make plays.. you guys just repeat that hit on bernard over n over.. most nfl fans only see highlights.. and sadly vontae is never on the highlight reels

[ColtsLegacy]

Vontae wont get recognized til he starts covering the best wide out.. haden , peterson and revis do what the best are spose to do.. Sherman get recognized for his amazing hands, which leads to big plays.. vontae just doesnt make plays.. you guys just repeat that hit on bernard over n over.. most nfl fans only see highlights.. and sadly vontae is never on the highlight reels

So getting constantly burned and giving up 8 TDs with a ~97 QBR on the season is what the best are supposed to do?

"Most NFL fans" don't know what the # they're talking about, so I don't see how that's relevant.

Plus, Davis had the same amount of ints as Sherman and more than the rest of your list. Tied for the 2nd most ints in football. Oh, yeah and he gave up 0 TDs . . . So . . .