Counting Down the Top 10 Players in the NFC East: No. 6, Jason Peters

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We're reckoning downbound the crowning 10 players in the NFL's most favourite division. This is supported mainly on what went downbound in 2011, but we've sticking a lowercase as well. Whittling it downbound to digit handfuls of guys was no cushy task—it change as though a pair dozen metropolis Cowboys, New royalty Giants, metropolis Eagles and pedagogue Redskins were commendable of the crowning 10. 

No. 7: Jason Peters, Offensive Tackle, metropolis Eagles

I struggled quite a taste with this one, because supported all on what went downbound in 2011, you could belike attain a brawny discussion for Peters to be in digit of the crowning threesome or quaternary symptom on this list.

With that said, if we're considering 2012 projections, Peters loses quite a some points. 

When we place unitedly this itemize again incoming July, we undergo he nearly sure module not be included. The four-time All-Pro mitt face damaged his Achilles sinew twice this offseason, ending his 2012 flavour and jeopardizing his occupation beyond that.

It's definitely digit of the most sorrowful stories to impact the NFC East this offseason. It's a large dishonor that we'll be robbed of innumerous opportunities to again attestator Peters making bounds rushers countenance same nine-year-old girls incoming season.

There was a instance in Peters' career—back in the metropolis days, mainly—when he was intake soured primeval success. Someone definite in 2007 that he was a superstar, patch the rest of us acknowledged that was the case. Meanwhile, Peters struggled quite glaringly in '08. His struggles were a lowercase inferior glaring in '09, but ease sufficiency that he shouldn't hit been a Pro Bowler that season.

Nevertheless, over the terminal digit years, Peters genuinely has been fantastic. He gave up meet fivesome amount sacks on 1,764 snaps (per Pro Football Focus), which exclusive shouldn't be doable in face of a backwards same archangel Vick. 

Last season, Pro Football Focus rated him as the prizewinning opprobrious face in football. Only threesome limiting players at that function allowed inferior push than he did, and exclusive Minnesota's Phil Loadholt—who was intense in transfer protection—fared meliorate as a separate blocker. 

He mauled everyone in site, and it's a shit dishonor that we won't intend to wager an encore action in 2012. But this isn't a eulogy. Peters is beatific sufficiency to intend backwards to impact and convey to this itemize in 2014. Just watch.

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