Travis Kelce ranked 79th on the player-voted NFL Top 100, his 11th straight appearance. He doesn’t appear on Pro Football Network’s Top 100 at all.
That isn’t an oversight, and it isn’t disrespect. It’s arithmetic. PFN’s list runs on a weighted three-year evaluation window, and once you understand how the weighting works, the biggest surprises on the board stop being surprises and start being consequences.
Why Travis Kelce and Chris Olave Missed PFN’s NFL Top 100
Jacob Infante laid out the math on PFN’s Hot List.
“That’s the evaluation period we’re looking at for these top 100 rankings, is the last three years,” Infante said. “Obviously, the heaviest weight to the 2025 season, but 30% of weight in the score goes to 2024 and 10% goes to 2023.”
Apply that to Kelce and the outcome writes itself. “You can’t deny the fact that the last couple of years or so, he’s been in decline,” Infante said. “In 2025, he finished as the fifth tight end, still very good, the fifth tight end, not quite that typical All-Pro level you come to expect out of Travis Kelce. In 2024, though, that was even lower. He ranked number 11 in Pro Football Network’s tight end Impact Scoring.”
Four tight ends made the cut ahead of him: Trey McBride at 21, George Kittle at 31, Brock Bowers at 73 and Sam LaPorta at 87. Kelce landed as an honorable mention. He caught 76 passes for 851 yards and five touchdowns in 2025, a third straight season under 1,000 yards after seven in a row above it, and he still led the Chiefs in all three categories. Being the best pass catcher on a 6-11 team is exactly the kind of thing a three-year model discounts.
Chris Olave is the same story running the other direction. He was a second-team All-Pro last season with 100 catches for 1,163 yards and nine touchdowns, and PFN graded him the No. 8 wide receiver in the league. He still didn’t make the list, because 2024 barely exists for him.
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“He didn’t even qualify in 2024 because he missed nine games,” Infante said. “He had those issues with the concussions, so availability has been a concern.” Infante didn’t hide his own history with the player, either: “I had him in a dynasty league and I traded him. I looked like an idiot for that.”
The verdict was more sympathetic than dismissive. “He was somebody who was certainly in the mix for a top 100 ranking,” Infante said. “He’s someone that the Pro Football Network staff certainly considered, but there’s so many talented wide receivers out there, man, it’s tough to narrow it down.”
Patrick Mahomes at QB5 Is the Ranking That Should Start Arguments
Penei Sewell at No. 4 is the ranking most readers will pause on. Infante won’t apologize for it.
“Personally, Sewell, in my opinion, is the best offensive lineman in the NFL,” he said, noting that Sewell’s 93.4 OL Impact score led every lineman in football and that he graded as the top overall lineman in both 2023 and 2025. “It’s unbelievable levels of consistency and reliability.”
The one worth arguing about is the quarterback. Infante flagged Patrick Mahomes as “QB5” on the board, then immediately argued the number was generous. On PFN’s published list, Mahomes sits 15th overall with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Drake Maye, Joe Burrow and Matthew Stafford ranked ahead of him.
“His QB Impact Score rankings have indicated that QB5 is honestly maybe a little too high for him,” Infante said. “The last time that he had a QB Impact ranking in the top eight was 2022.”
PFN’s own numbers back that up, listing Mahomes ninth, 10th and 11th in QB Impact Scoring over the past three seasons after five straight top-three finishes.
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Brock Purdy at 32 and Jordan Love at 34 round out the surprises, both riding efficiency into territory their reputations haven’t reached yet. That’s the whole point of a three-year window. It rewards what you did, not who you are, and it doesn’t care that one of these guys has three rings.
