​NFL players voted Lamar Jackson the 69th-best player in football on Monday, a drop of 67 spots from his No. 2 ranking a year ago. Pro Football Network’s own top 100, published hours earlier the same day, has him at No. 2.That is not a rounding error. That is two lists looking at the same quarterback and reaching opposite conclusions, and the distance between them is the most useful thing either one has to say.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe player vote was the starting point for the whole exercise. “This year, one thing that came to mind is why Lamar Jackson is ranked number 69 in the entire league,” Jacob Infante said on the Hot List. “That didn’t make too much sense to me. It didn’t make too much sense to all of us at Pro Football Network.”PFN’s answer is a scoring model rather than a ballot. “The primary focus of this is to take an analytical look at who’s been the most impactful players over the last three seasons,” Infante said, describing a weighted window that gives 2025 60% of the weight, 2024 30% and 2023 the remaining 10%. Film and context can move a player manually, but the spine is the math. “It’s very much an objective right down the middle,” Infante said. “It’s straight and narrow as you can possibly get.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRun Jackson through that and the picture changes. He missed four games last season and finished with 2,549 passing yards, 21 touchdowns and a career-low 349 rushing yards, sliding to No. 13 among quarterbacks in PFN’s QB Impact Scoring. He still ranked fourth in the league in passer rating at 103.8, which is not the profile of the 69th-best player in football.BUILD YOUR OWN TOP 100: PFN’s FREE NFL Top 100 BuilderThe two seasons before that, he led PFN’s entire QB metric in 2024 and was a first-team All-Pro in both 2023 and 2024, winning MVP in the first and finishing runner-up in the second. A player-voted list is a snapshot of last fall. A three-year ledger is a body of work. Josh Allen, No. 1 on PFN’s list, is what happens when a quarterback never gives the model a bad year to average in.The system cuts the other way too, and Marlon Humphrey is the proof. PFN ranked the Ravens cornerback No. 7 overall a year ago. He isn’t on the list at all in 2026. He was the No. 2 corner by PFN’s CB Impact Score in 2024 and didn’t crack the top 35 at the position in 2025.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“He’s been in the league for a long time, he’s accomplished a lot, but he’s getting older,” Infante said. “Could he make it back in the top 100? I mean, maybe, but one thing’s for sure, I definitely don’t anticipate he’s gonna finish in the top 10 again anytime soon.”Drake Maye occupies the space Humphrey vacated. The Patriots quarterback debuts at No. 8, the only player PFN has entering the list for the first time inside the top 10, on the back of a 91.8 QB Impact Score that led the NFL and finished nearly five points clea