Time has an impact on a lot of things. Look at your waistline, or hairline. Think about your ability to handle two consecutive nights out in Vegas, compared to when you were 21.

You would think time would also change the hierarchy of the NFL’s top players.

Surprisingly, it hasn’t done so the past six or seven years.

Any list of the top players still starts with Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. It’s been that way for a while.

Manning and Brady. Brady and Manning.

It’s chic to say Drew Brees has joined the Big Two to make it a Big Three at the top of the quarterback pecking order — and some might even have Brees ahead of Brady. But if you took a poll of general managers and asked them to pick the quarterback they’d most want to play with right now, I’d bet Manning and Brady would get the most votes.

That’s why they top my list of the Top 50 NFL players, just as they have the past five years.

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