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Who was the best player in the NFL in 2015? Not based on the past 10 years or just one game, but over the past year: Who was the best?

Well, that's what the NFL 1000 series aims to do by scouting, grading and ranking the best players at each position before putting them in order and breaking ties to come up with the top 1,000 players in the league last season. No narratives, no fantasy football points, no quarterback rating. This is just cold, hard scouting.

The NFL 1000 metric is based heavily on scouting each player and grading the key criteria for each position. The criteria are weighed according to importance for a best possible score of 100.

Potential and career accomplishments are not taken into consideration.

In the case of ties, our team asked, "Which player would I rather have on my team?" and set the rankings accordingly.

Subjective? Yes. But ties are no fun.

Each player was scouted by a team of experienced evaluators (Dan Bazal, Cian Fahey, Duke Manyweather, Marshal Miller, Luke Easterling and Matt Miller) with these key criteria in mind. The following grades are the result of months of film study from our team.