Kansas City Chiefs C Creed Humphrey is getting the ultimate recognition from his peers heading into the 2025 NFL season, and it’s long overdue.
Humphrey will debut at No. 93 on the 2025 NFL’s Top 100 Players List as voted exclusively by his NFL peers. This marks the first-ever NFL Top 100 recognition for the two-time Super Bowl champion, two-time All-Pro, and three-time Pro Bowl center. He’s been the Chiefs’ starting center since his rookie campaign after entering the league by way of the University of Oklahoma in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft. He’s gone on to start 68 regular-season games and 13 postseason games, stamping himself as one of the best and most reliable players in the NFL.
Now, his peers have taken the opportunity to recognize his play with a Top 100 selection.
Chiefs C Creed Humphrey selected for first-ever NFL Top 100
Humphrey has been well-deserving and often recognized as the best center in the league, yet he has never made the NFL Top 100 list. His peers had some great things to say about him and the way that he plays the game.
“When you want to get in this league and you want to play in this league, you got to understand that you will come across dudes who are elite talents, but you got to be willing to face them and want to face them, and then that should make you want to be on that field, make you want to be better.” Los Angeles Chargers LB Daiyan Henley said. “And that is Creed (Humphrey). That’s a dude I want to compete against, because he is at the top of his position.”
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“I think he’s just got that nastiness, just that physicality,” Philadelphia Eagles LB Zack Baun said. “‘I’m grabbing on and I’m not letting go. You’re going to go where I want you to go.’ This film was really cool to watch.
Humphrey is the only center to appear on the 2025 Top 100 Players List, and while you might debate his placement (No. 93 overall), there’s no denying that he deserves this honor.
“As a center, you’ve got to run the show,” Baun continued. “You’re like the MIKE linebacker of the offense, essentially calling MIKE points, calling combination blocks.”
Whether it’s his football IQ, communication ability, athleticism, physicality, or the nastiness with which he plays, Humphrey is on another level.
“There’s a lot of pre-snap communication at the center position,” Chargers OT Joe Alt said. “You have to know and be able to get the entire five in the right position, where we’re going to block and where the combos are set up. He does that at a very high level.”
He makes things very difficult for opposing defenses when it comes to doing their jobs and doing them successfully.
“One of the biggest things as a linebacker looking at the offensive line is finding our keys, we want to know, run or pass,” Henley said. “Creed (Humphrey) hides it very well when he’s moving the line, talking like this, IDing the MIKE. He’s very detailed in how you do it. But man, he gets off that ball, his first two steps are so quick, so twitchy.”
The fact that he has been able to do it consistently and continues to set the standard for the Chiefs and for offensive linemen across the league is what remains incredibly impressive about his play.
“What he can do from the second he stepped on the field for what he’s doing now, and he’s just been going like this,” Alt said. “And I think being able to watch him being the anchor there at the Chiefs is impressive.”
