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Top NFL rookies 2022
Oct 12, 2022
Multiple Contributors
The 2022 NFL rookie class has
wowed through five weeks. Twelve first-year players have
already caught at least one touchdown pass and nine have rushed for one.
Thirteen have an interception and 14 have at least one sack in their early pro
careers. A pair of rookie quarterbacks have even gotten a start and plenty of
2022 draft picks are playing prominent roles for their teams.
So how do the rookies stack up so
far? Let's rank the top 10 coming out of Week 5. We polled our own Matt Bowen,
Jeff Legwold, Matt Miller and Jordan Reid for their personal lists and combined
them to make a consensus ranking of the top 10 rookies. Our experts then
weighed in on each player who made the list, along with a few who just fell
short. Finally, they picked out a riser to watch, an underperforming first-rounder
and an overperforming late-rounder and took a quick look at the first-year
quarterback situations.
Tyler Linderbaum,
C, Baltimore Ravens: Sometimes it comes down to a combination of
body work and degree of difficulty. Linderbaum has started since Day 1 at one
of the most challenging positions on the field for a rookie outside of the
quarterback room. He has played all but two snaps this season and has a 97.3%
pass block win rate. – Legwold
