Pro Football Reference is an excellent resource that, like Football Outsiders, provides a bounty of untraditional statistics intended to accurately identify trends throughout NFL history.
This particular chart was created from the Approximate Value method. The idea behind it is to determine the best all-time players for each club. The folks over at PFR can explain it better than my 5AM, caffeine-less mind can right now so head on over there and check it out.
Halfbacks and fullbacks were lumped into one category along with tight ends and receivers.
Today we'll look at the offense and soon enough I'll post the defense.
| QB | Len Dawson | 98 |
| RB | Priest Holmes | 69 |
| RB | Ed Podolak | 54 |
| RC | Tony Gonzalez | 94 |
| RC | Fred Arbanas | 66 |
| RC | Otis Taylor | 65 |
| RC | Henry Marshall | 53 |
| T | Jim Tyrer | 95 |
| T | John Alt | 68 |
| G | Will Shields | 95 |
| G | Ed Budde | 77 |
| C | Jack Rudnay | 62 |
In an ideal situation, I'd like to see Dwayne Bowe and Brandon Albert up on that list someday. Other than that, I don't think we have any offensive players on the current team that will warrant consideration.
What other current players have a shot to replace one of the all-time greats on there?