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NFL players one step closer To play flag football In 2028 Summer Olympics After team owners Unanimous sanctioned A proposal for players to participate. Now the process of keeping the national roster together begins. What will the Supreme American male flag football team look like three years from the road? Which current-or future-NFL players have the best skill set to flourish with a small ground and no contact in 5-on-5 games?
While USA will be football Make the final call Who makes the team, I wanted to project the best roster to the United States in 2028. The team is expected To be a mixture of flag football experts and NFL talent, but I focused only on NFL and college football players in this exercise.
Olympic roster 10 players are expected to be deep, there is no limit on the amount of players in each situation. For my pics, I used NFL flag Government post: Quarterback, running back, wide receiver and center on offenses; Razor, protection on defensive back and defense. I also noted my interpretation of the skills required for each role, listed alternative players who could slot and even suggested an aggressive game for this roster to blow up the competition.
To learn more about flag football, be sure to tune in NFL Flag Championship From 18 July to 20 July on ABC, ESPN, ESPN+ and Disney+. Let us start with a quick signal-collar in my Olympic roster pics for 2028, which can take the team to the USA to gold.
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Necessary skills: Accuracy, hand strength, thrown on run, mobility
I saw both Lamor jackson And Joe Buro Here, but Daniel gets a node due to his age; He will be 27 years old at the time of 2028 Olympics. In addition, their high-level throwing symptoms and movement skills are very good with flag football game.
As a fraud, Daniel completed 69% of his nearby, the sixth best in the league. He is an accurate thrower from the pocket and he can distribute the ball against the man coverage he will see in the Olympics. He also has the strength of the hand, which is vertically downwards to throw.
In flag football, quarterbacks cannot walk on designed carry or scramble (until it is closed before), but they require mobility to avoid blitz and expand as much pockets as possible within seven seconds. Daniel is a fit with its speed and change skills (which involves gadget plays), and we know that he can make it as a thrower at this step.
optional: Lamor jackson, Joe Buro
Necessary skills: Deaf, Small-Spirit Speed, Getting Skills
Gibbs will be an X factor for the team USA due to its versatility. I think he can play a hybrid role as a running back/motion-motto target in a nearby game. There is no blocked in flag football, so we need a back to dart previous defenders with upper-level elusive and short-area juice. She is Gibbs, who had a crowd of 41 at a distance of 10 or more yards in the previous season, the third highest in the league.
Teams are allowed to be handed over football to the flag until they are five yards away from the midfield within five yards “no run zone” or from the last area. American crime can loose gibs on fly sweep, reverse, misunderstanding plans and options, which plays at a broad receiver speed.
As a nearby catcher, Gibbs has caught 104 balls in their first two sessions in NFL, and he can run traditional running back root tree (swing, wheels, choice root) or align in slot for favorable interior matchup. He is also a dynamic proposer at the break point.
optional: Business Robinson
Necessary skills: Route running, coverage manipulation, play speed
Jefferson Is not committed To strive for the Games, but that team will give the USA the ability to distinguish a perimeter in the traditional Z receiver position as a target. As the premiere root runner of the league, he can run all three levels of the root tree with his ability to install coverage and exit and out of his brake. He can also hit inside to run slot feeds as the last-zone target for Daniel.
Each of its first five Pro seasons (and 495 career reception) will be the world’s most difficult matchup in the Jefferson Olympics, with over 1,000 yard.
optional: Saeedi Lamb
Necessary skills: Matchup capacity, vertical elements, catch radius, ball skills
The Ohio State Star 2027 will be eligible for NFL draft, which means that he could complete his stalled season ahead of the Olympics. Team USA must be eager to bring it as a border ex receiver as it can win on deep balls and be a priority target after the team crosses the midfield. (Flag football grounds are only 50 yards of length, which has 10-yard and zones similar to NFL play.)
I am looking for a team USA to throw 50-50 faded balls here, and Smith can use the strength of his 6-foot-3, 215-pound frame, wide catch radius and brilliant game. And do not forget about the speed of his explosive straight line after a catch on Quick and Crossers.
Smith, who had 15 touchdowns as a new person for national champion bkeys, has already designed Comp for former Falcons receiver Julio JonesI do not disagree with him after watching the tape. If he continues his origin through 2028, it should be a no-brine for America
optional: Malik nabers
Necessary skills: Shotgun Snap, Catch-Run Symptoms, Ball Career Vision, Open-Field Speed
He is eligible to snap the center routes and catch the ball. So we are looking for a middle-off-the-field stretch option, which can play after halling a nearby. The chase fits due to the ability of its electric movement and control of the lower body in the open area.
In the previous season, Chase led NFL to reception (127), yard (1,708) and touchdown (17). He can win at every level and create an immediate chaos for the opposing countries under the throw.
optional: Garat wilson
Necessary skills: Closing speed, lateral acceleration, range
Team USA can run with a defender until it is nominated as a pre-Snap and starts seven yards behind the scripture line. With the closing speed, the elite can eat grass in a hurry to attack the percense quarterbacks, and they have a range and change-off-direction quickness to match mobile passers-by in space and take down their flags.
Parsons’ league has 52.5 sacks in its four sessions (fifth highest in NFL in that period), and he will happily take every drama into a free crowd because there are no blockers in Flag football. Also, if the team wanted the USA to match in Parsons coverage or play as a rover in a lower red area, it can easily do so. Parsons’ fellow Pen State Alum, Abdul carterThere is a great secondary option if he jumps the expected jumps at the next level.
optional: Abdul carter
Necessary skills: Field vision, pattern matching, transition speed, ball skills
Prototypes in the position have speed and high-level technology to match the world’s best pass cators. More importantly, he is a long coverage corner that can pattern-matches with an off-position, as the “no contact” rule in flag football eliminates the ability to play press coverage.
In four supporting sessions with bronchos, Carten has 11 interception and 39 pass breakups. That team can be a defensive game-changer for the USA.
optional: Derek Stingley JR,
Necessary skills: Field vision, pattern matching, infection speed, ball skill/playmaking symptoms
There is no way that Hunters were not going to this list, as the team can easily create a package on the crime for the two-way star. Nevertheless, Hunter’s lead role in the Olympics will be on the protective side of the ball, where he can bring a playmaking element to the field.
Hunter, who had nine intercourse in three college sessions, can jump on a throw to create a turnover for the US for the elite ball skills and coverage instincts and take the ball away. In addition, interception can still be returned to the touchdown in flag football – not surprised if the Hunter sprints a back in a house.
optional: Sauce gardner
Necessary skills: Field Vision, Pattern Matching, Change-Off-Direction Speed, Ball Skills
Dejean can also see the representative on crime given his ball skills and pant returns, which translates well into the flag football game because you require vertical acceleration and falsehood to remember people in space. But we are focusing on Dejean as a slot corner for this team.
He can match the inside, run along the seam and corner routes and use his change-speed speed to limit the bottom of the concepts (especially near the round line). His crook tape in Phili was excellent, and a pick-six in the super bowl Patrica mahms Highlight his impact ability. Dejean is an emerging star, which will have three more full NFL seasons to enhance their game before the Olympics.
optional: Trent McDafi
Necessary skills: Coverage capacity, second level limit, blitz capacity
Kyle Hamilton Here will be a very good fit, though he Wage his interest Born for South Korea and was born in Greece. So let’s pive for Winfield, which brings versatility in the field as a multi -layered guard.
Winfield has the skill of creating coverage on-the-ball production, and he can track the receiver in space to limit rival crime after catch. If the team wanted to match the passengers in the USA coverage, Winfield could also be posted as Rashar or to play deeply as a deep defender (remember, seven seconds to throw the quarterback).
In five supporting sessions, Winfield has seven interception, 20 pass breakups and 17 sacks. He is a natural disruptive that is often around the ball for a reason.
optional: Zewear McKini
A drama should run this roster: Aries wheel (alert for post corner)
Let us set Daniels with a concept, with a concept designed to attack man coverage using the variation of Aries with five players on the field. Daniels can undergo progress read with gibs (H) as their first option on the wheel route. On a free backfield release, Gibbs could quickly clean up for Daniel, with a bubble on the interior crossing route with a defender. If the look is not on the wheel, Daniel Jefferson (Z) or Smith (X) can work two -tier crossing routes.
Here the goal is to choose/rub the defaults, create an open catch-and-run target. At the center, the vertical will run clearly as a “alert” for Chase Daniel, which can take the matchup to a deep double trick (post corner). Best wishes to stop this.
