NFL Finally Gets Called Out on Jordan Howard Top 100 Travesty

It's been pointed out several times over the past month and really since the show's inception a few years ago. The NFL Top 100 airing on NFL Network is supposed to be an accurate representation of the absolute best the game of football has to offer. Yet year after year it's obvious that the players voting is out of touch with reality in so many ways. How else does one explain how Jordan Howard has failed to make the list two years in a row? Here's a former fifth round pick who didn't start his first game until week four of his rookie season. Despite this he still manages to finish second in the NFL in rushing, breaking the Bears' rookie record in the process with 1,313 yards. Keep in mind this includes surpassing names like Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, and Matt Forte. Pretty solid group. Then this past season he goes over 1,100 yards rushing, becoming the first Bears running back to ever have two 1,000-yard seasons his first two years and ranks sixth in the NFL. All while he was playing with the 32nd-ranked passing attack in the league. Everybody in the stadium knew he was getting the football and they still couldn't stop him. Any love from the voters? None. At last, somebody decided to make this ridiculous snub known. Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner spoke on his behalf during a Top 100 reaction show. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://www.sportsmockery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1280x720-Who-got-snubbed-from-this-years-Top-100-NFL-Videos000146.754-000244.029.mp4"][/video]

Jordan Howard won't get his due until the Bears start winning

The sad reality is people don't pay attention to losing teams. This makes it so easy to overlook great players. Howard is stuck in this reality after going 3-13 and 5-11 with the Bears his first two seasons. The only way he can raise his profile and get the respect he so richly deserves is for this team to finally break their cold streak in the winning season column. A great example of this was Ottis Anderson in the 1980s. During his early career with the St. Louis Cardinals, he was one of the best backs in the league. A two-time Pro Bowler. Nobody talked about him though. Not like they did Marcus Allen, Eric Dickerson, Walter Payton or others. That's because his team was a perennial loser. It wasn't until he was 32-years old that he finally got his due when he resurfaced with the New York Giants, helping them to win the Super Bowl in 1990. The number he happened to be wearing at that time? None other than #24.