1. Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs QB (2018: 22): Must-watch television, a froggy-voiced gunslinger touched by the hand of God, as Dave Gettleman would say, or perhaps the hand of Brett Favre.

2. Kyler Murray, Cardinals QB (NR): The poster boy for 5-foot-10 quarterbacks with a rocket arm and legs that could have beaten out plenty of hits and stolen plenty of bases for the Oakland A’s.

3. Eli Manning/Daniel Jones, Giants QBs (37/NR): The Giants’ 38-year-old icon desperately tries to hold off the new regime’s rookie eye candy. High drama building in East Rutherford.

4. Al Riveron (NFL VP of officiating) and the zebras (33): The last line of replay defense for coaches now able to challenge clear and obvious pass interference, which often is not so clear and obvious.

5. Baker Mayfield, Browns QB (21): Might blow his mind that he’s not higher on this list, but he’ll be fun to watch and fun to listen to because he has no fear of the consequences.

6. Freddie Kitchens, Browns coach (NR): Browns GM John Dorsey has entrusted a rookie head coach to keep a wildly hyped, combustible mix of personalities with great expectations in a championship-starved city from imploding.

7. Jimmy Garoppolo, 49ers QB (4): Back from his torn ACL, the 49ers paid him $137.5 million to remind them what it was like when Joe Montana left his heart in San Francisco.

8. Carson Wentz, Eagles QB (8): Nick Foles is gone. Nick Foles was the one who won the city’s first Super Bowl. Now stay healthy and win one yourself so they can call you Wentzylvania again, young man.

9. Nick Foles, Jaguars QB (NR): Not exactly a tough task following in the footsteps of Blake Bortles, but Tom Coughlin paid Foles $88 million to be Saint Nick and get him back to a Super Bowl.

10. Jerry Jones, Cowboys owner (15): The flamboyant marketing genius loves the cameras as much as the president does, and after showing the money to Ezekiel Elliott, he’ll have to do the same for Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper to see his first Super Bowl since SB XXX.

11. Andrew Luck, ex-Colts QB (7): His shadow will loom over Indianapolis and the Colts … over all NFL players, really, who might decide to reassess their own futures. Is he really done before his 30th birthday?

12. Tom Brady, Patriots QB (11): Still happily married to Gisele. Still Robert Kraft’s adopted son. No longer 41. Still the scourge of Jets fans. Super Bowl rings: Brady 6, Jets 1.

13. Aaron Rodgers, Packers QB (2): The NFL’s most gifted quarterback, and his relationship with rookie head coach Matt LaFleur will determine whether he ends his two-year playoff drought.

14. Odell Beckham Jr., Browns WR (5): The conflicted superstar dropped the ball with the Giants. Now he gets to catch passes from Baker Mayfield. Happy now?

15. Le’Veon Bell, Jets RB (NR): This playful, outsized personality and rapper seems perfect for the bright lights and big stage, but how rusty will he be after sitting out the 2018 season?

16. Kliff Kingsbury, Cardinals coach (NR): His much-ballyhooed Air Raid offense experiment comes to the desert, with his beloved Murray running it.

17. Antonio Brown, Raiders WR (36): Wonder if Jon Gruden is getting cold feet about welcoming this helmet case with that $50.125 million contract.

18. Sean McVay, Rams coach (29): The young offensive wunderkind got schooled in the Super Bowl by Bill Belichick, but most believe he’s too good and too resilient for any hangover.

19. Saquon Barkley, Giants RB (10): Dynamic weapon, magnetic smile, a bigger, modern Frank Gifford perhaps who should again accumulate more than 2,000 total yards.

20. Sam Darnold, Jets QB (19): You won’t see him in any pantyhose commercials, or swigging Johnnie Walker Red, or wearing a fur coat or a Fu Manchu. There was only one Broadway Joe. He can be the next best thing by being himself.

21. Rob Gronkowski, ex-Patriots TE (12): Expect a flood of “Gronk mulling return” whispers and headlines. Prediction: He’ll miss the game and come out of retirement to chase another ring.

22. Dwayne Haskins, Redskins QB (NR): Jay Gruden’s best chance to survive the firing line is picking the right time to take the ball from Case Keenum and hand it to Dan Snyder’s QB of the Future.

23. Vic Fangio, Broncos coach (NR): The 61-year-old football lifer and defensive guru banned music during his first training camp as head coach, and not because they weren’t playing Sinatra: “There’s no music in games.”

24. Sarah Thomas, official (NR): First full-time female official and first woman to officiate a playoff game (Chargers-Patriots last January.)

25. Gregg Williams, Jets defensive coordinator (NR): His bark may be worse than his bite post-Bounty scandal, but his time in New York won’t be boring. Check last season’s “Hard Knocks” for context.

26. Jalen Ramsey, Jaguars CB (28): Anyone who shows up for training camp in an armored truck filled with phony bank money bags and walks the talk as the game’s best cornerback gets my attention.

27. DeShaun Watson, Texans QB (3): Thankfully, he won’t have to take another 12-hour bus trip from Houston to a game in Jacksonville — so the air pressure on a plane won’t affect any cracked rib, bruised and partially collapsed lung — now that Laremy Tunsil is his left tackle.

28. Tony Romo, CBS broadcaster (NR): Romostradamus is seeking a $10 million-per-year contract. Is he interested in buying Greenland?

29. Lamar Jackson, Ravens QB (NR): Will he be running even more? Can he evade angry linebackers? Will he be throwing 30 times a game? Will a star be born?

30. Ezekiel Elliott, Cowboys RB (13): Zeke Who? Zeke Who Got The Money, that’s Who. Get ready, Dexter Lawrence.

31. Drew Brees, Saints QB (34): Turned 40 in January. Might be post-Katrina legend’s last chance to win that second Super Bowl.

32. Eddy Piniero, Bears K (NR): Tries to make impatient Bears fans forget Cody Parkey’s infamous double-doink field-goal miss that shattered playoff dreams.

33. Aaron Donald, Rams DT (43): He’s the best defensive player in the game, and I would guess that John Mara wishes Jerry Reese had drafted him instead of Odell Beckham Jr.

34. Bruce Arians, Buccaneers coach (NR): He will be the anti-Belichick at press conferences, but if he can’t fix Jameis Winston, he’ll regret returning to the sideline.

35. Jacoby Brissett, Colts QB (NR): The backup quarterback of the Colts no more, as Luck would have it.

36. Taysom Hill, Saints QB (NR): Former BYU quarterback is Sean Payton’s popular Swiss Army knife and master of trickeration.

37. Philip Rivers, Chargers QB (42): He’s 37 years old, and running out of time to join 2004 classmates Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger as Super Bowl champions.

38. Carli Lloyd, USWNT player (NR): We know she can play fútbol, now let’s see an NFL team desperate for a dependable field-goal kicker give her a chance to kick a football.

39. Jon Gruden, Raiders coach (6): There is certain to be more AB drama as “Chucky” tries to rebuild the Raiders, and it will be entertaining watching him confront more “Hard Knocks.”

40. Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama QB (NR): The soap opera should be called As The Dolphins Tank, and the Alabama quarterback will be linked to them all season.

41. Bill Belichick, Patriots coach (17): The Jets have had six head coaches since 2000. He’s won six Super Bowls. We’re on to No. 42.

42. Adam Gase, Jets coach (NR): He’s the one mandated to be a godsend for Darnold and Jets fans who haven’t had a playoff team since the 2010 season.

43. Travis Frederick, Cowboys C (NR): An inspirational comeback from a rare auto-immune disease known as Guillain-Barre syndrome that cost him the 2018 season and nearly his career.

44. JuJu Smith-Schuster, Steelers WR (NR): What Roethlisberger and Steeler Nation wouldn’t give for their new go-to receiver to make everyone forget Brown.

45. Gil Brandt, Hall of Fame executive (NR): The 86-year-old HOFer is young at heart and an inspirational historical resource and fount of information on Twitter and off.

46. Peyton Manning, Former QB (NR): “Peyton’s Places” chronicles the NFL’s 100-year anniversary season. And he’s still Eli’s Big Brother. And he’s pals with the Jets head coach. And he has ownership interest.

47. Matthew Berry, ESPN fantasy analyst (NR): The King of Fantasy Football.

48. Mike Pereira, Fox broadcaster (NR): The elite Fox rules analyst will once again explain the unexplainable to us.

49. DeMaurice Smith, NFLPA executive director (NR): The fight over an 18-game schedule, a three-game preseason and a player share of revenue larger than 47 percent and the playoff field expanded to 14 will be ratcheted up in negotiations on a new CBA.

50. Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner (50): See No. 49.

Who dropped off last year’s list?

The fans (1), Kirk Cousins (9), Dak Prescott (14), J.J. Watt (16), Khalil Mack (18), Donald Trump (20), Cam Newton (23), Russell Wilson (24), Mitchell Trubisky (25), Malcolm Jenkins (26), Josh Rosen (27), Case Keenum (30), Matt Ryan (31), Von Miller (32), Blake Bortles (35), Colin Kaepernick (38), Marshawn Lynch (39), Hue Jackson (40), Pat Shurmur (41), Matt Patricia (44), Ryan Shazier (45), Shaquem Griffin (46), Larry Fitzgerald (47), Vontaze Burfict (48), Adam Vinatieri (49)