The All Quarter Century team: Let's fill out a 53-man NFL roster, from Tom Brady to Devin Hester
Briefly

As NFL teams prepare their final rosters for the upcoming season, ESPN analysts Aaron Schatz and Seth Walder created an All-NFL roster to celebrate the past 25 years. They evaluated players based on their performance from 2000 onward, incorporating advanced metrics like DYAR to quantify player value. The roster features 25 offensive players, 23 defensive players, and five special teams players, with a practice squad of near-misses, showcasing how analytics shape the understanding of player contributions throughout this period.
At this point of the NFL offseason, front offices are starting to think about their final 53-man rosters for the upcoming season.
To pull it off, we couldn't think of two people better for this job than our stat-loving NFL analysts Aaron Schatz and Seth Walder.
We relied heavily on FTN's DYAR metric which calculates a player's value over the course of the season compared to a replacement-level baseline.
This team includes 25 offensive players, 23 defensive players and five special teams players.
Read at ESPN.com
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