The off-ball linebacker is one of the more challenging positions in football to evaluate. As we head towards the NFL draft, there are three consensus top linebackers to choose from: Jihaad Campbell (Alabama), Carson Schwesinger (UCLA), and Jalon Walker (Georgia). Of those three, Campbell and Walker are projected to be first-round selections.

Offense returned in a different way than most were assuming it would in 2024. After an offseason where the running back position was publicly devalued, rushing the ball drove the highest levels of success in both conferences. Efficiency became the name of the game in passing with less attempts for some, but explosiveness is still on the menu.

The first few rounds of NFL free agency are over, and teams are now focusing on Pro Days and last-minute tweaks to their draft boards. One way to create a road map for how teams will approach the NFL Draft is to examine their overall roster pre-free agency, what they did or didn't do to solve those issues, and then project those missing holes into the draft process.

Offenses have been on the downturn statistically, but the emphasis on weapons in 2024 has made the free agency (and draft) moderately interesting. The affordability of some QBs has also diversified the range, but can you find your franchise's linchpin in the open market?

Defensively, 2025 was the year of the DB. Several high-caliber defensive backs switched teams, and a few, including

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Using Field Vision’s Threat Ratings to examine the best of the best offensive weapons from the 2024 season.

Using Field Vision's Havoc Ratings, let's reflect on who had the best-performing units during the 2024 season.

Threat and Havoc measure more in depth than generic stats possibly could by linking production and proven value. Some players with gaudier numbers don't serve as effective a purpose as a seemingly innocuous cog in the machine. The nature of Havoc and Threat is the ability to ignore the narratives of how good a player is or isn't and look strictly at production. Here, we take a look at either end of the spectrum at players who produced better or worse than you may have thought.

Here's what to watch for when each team has the ball.

With just one game being played, the number of bets available are severely limited with just two teams playing. Though the Chiefs and Eagles roster plenty of players that offer masses of monetary value, the outer edges of the gambling sites present some of the most distinct and specific wagers only the Big Game could even attempt to tease.

The Chiefs and Eagles have some of the top football minds employed on their coaching staffs. Kansas City has Andy Reid, a future Hall of Fame head coach, self-proclaimed football historian, and nerd. Reid will watch games from decades past or even high school programs to steal ideas from.

Championship weekend came and went and we saw a multitude of great individual performances in each game. We’ve got 8 days to look ahead at the Super Bowl, but before we get to that, let’s take a moment to look at some of the best performances from Championship weekend and how it will shape the Super Bowl Matchup. In the spirit of keeping the ball moving forward, we’ll focus on performances from players on the winning teams. We’ll break down one player from each position group except the offensive line(sorry big uglies) that had a great Championship game performance and will be competing in Super Bowl LIX.

At Field Vision Sports, our conversations frequently tumble back into schemes and tendencies that coaches and coordinators deploy on Sundays. Ben Johnson just “schemed” himself into a job with one of the cornerstone franchises in the NFL. Frequently, skill players will sign with a brand-new team in free agency and expect comparably excellent statistics in their new digs but melt when the new OC has different plans. Each and every Sunday, we see similarly constructed teams defeated the teams of the other ilk, poorly constructed teams.

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As conference Championship games approach, Field Vision is unveiling our Season awards. These are the biggest awards that will be given out at NFL Honors in a few weeks and we got together as a staff to give you our take on them. We chose our winners with a slant towards our analytics, but it was not exclusively based on statistical measures or our Havoc and Threat Ratings that we know you’ve all grown to love this season. Without further ado, here are the prestigious winners of Field Vision’s End of Season Awards:

Ladies and gentlemen, here we are in heaven.

Saturday Slate

With the NFL All-Pro Team released earlier this week, it’s time for Field Vision to take a look at our All-Havoc team for 2024. Remember, Havoc is a proprietary metric developed at Field Vision that measures the value of a player’s contribution to their team relative to their position group. For more on how Havoc is measured and was developed, you can read Scott Bouska’s article

With the NFL All-Pro Team released earlier this week, it’s time for Field Vision to take a look at our All-Threat team for 2024. Remember, Threat is a proprietary metric developed at Field Vision that measures the value of a player’s contribution to their team relative to their position group. For more on how Threat is measured and was developed, you can read Scott Bouska’s article

Now that there are just eight teams remaining, I believe there are clear and distinct reasons as to why each team can win the Super Bow.l. They've made it this far, so what specifically are they some of the best in the world at?

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Week 18 saw a lot of new faces join the prestigious All-Havoc club as many teams gave opportunities to players who saw less of it throughout the season. It was a great season of looking back at the top performances each week, so here we go one more time. As always, go the Stats Tab of the app to see full Havoc Ratings for every position.

The Final week of All-Threat brought us some studs at the running back position with each of our top 5 backs(excluding Saquon Barkley who sat out) making either the first or second team. It was a fun season of looking back at the best performances each week, so we took one last crack at it. As always, you can find full Threat Ratings for each position in the Stats Tab of the app.

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Week 17 saw two of our top performers all season long in Joe Burrow and Saquon Barkley flex their muscles yet again and make the First Team for All-Threat. As always, visit the stats tab in the app to see full Threat Ratings for every position.

Week 17 saw some of the stalwarts on the defensive line flex their muscle and show up on our All-Havoc team after having terrific seasons all year long. In the secondary, we see a few faces that have been more average throughout the season but had great week 17's. As always, visit the stats tab in the app to see full Havoc Rating lists for all positions.

Sterling K. Brown had a really cool hype segment on Fox about the “penultimate” episode of a television season being the best or most intriguing.

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