My line up grades for the NFL AFC South teams for the 2018 season. You need to keep these grades close by when you select your teams for the coming year.
| AFC South | |
| Texans | |
| QB | Deshaun Watson |
| If Watson can survive the season, he will be fine. A- | |
| RB | Lamar Miller |
| Miller was horrible last yr with 21y his longest run. D | |
| WR | DeAndre Hopkins & Will Fuller V & Braxton Miller |
| Hopkins is outstanding. Watson deserves better from Fuller & Miller B | |
| TE | Stephen Anderson |
| Anderson is barely OK. C | |
| OL | lt Julie’n Davenport lg Zach Fulton c Nick Martin rg Senio Kelemete rt Seantrel Henderson |
| Watson deserves better in the OL than this group. Henderson was 3rd string in BF. D | |
| DL | Le J.J. Watt nt D.J. Reader re Joel Heath |
| Watt was hurt most of 17, putting pressure on Clowney. Rest are nothing special. C | |
| lb | slb Whitney Mercilus lilb Zach Cunningham rilb Benardrick McKinney wlb Jadeveon Clowney |
| Mercilus was hurt but Clowney is outstanding. B | |
| DB | lc Johnathan Joseph rc Aaron Colvin fs Kareem Jackson ss Tyrann Mathieu FA |
| Signing Mathieu helped but Watson needs to score a lot of points to keep HO in the game. | |
| Colts | |
| QB | Andrew Luck or Jacoby Brissett |
| No luck in Indy last year. Brissett was decent. B with Luck C without him. | |
| RB | Marlon Mack |
| Mack is not good & runs behind a bad OL. D | |
| WR | T.Y. Hilton & Ryan Grant |
| Hilton is fine, Grant not so much. C | |
| TE | Eric Ebron FA & Jack Doyle FA |
| Both are solid and can catch. B | |
| OL | lt Anthony Castonzo lg Quenton Nelson R c Ryan Kelly R rg Braden Smith R rt Austin Howard FA |
| The rebuilt OL can’t be worse. D | |
| DL | le Denico Autry FA lt Grover Stewart rt Al Woods re Jabaal Sheard |
| Jabaal Sheard is fine the rest is not good. D | |
| lb | slb John Simon mlb Antonio Morrison wlb Najee Goode |
| Morrison is the best of this group. Rest are not good. D | |
| DB | lc Quincy Wilson rc Kenny Moore fs Malik Hooker ss Matthias Farley |
| All are green but Matthias Farley is the best here. C- | |
| Jaguars | |
| QB | Blake Bortles |
| Bortles is at best middle of the road. C | |
| RB | Leonard Fournette |
| He is top 10 RB. A | |
| WR | Marqise Lee & D.J. Chark R & Donte Moncrief FA |
| Is this grp holding Bortles back or is this grp the problem? D | |
| TE | Austin Seferian-Jenkins |
| Young and rising. C+ | |
| OL | lt Cam Robinson lg Andrew Norwell FA c Brandon Linder rg A.J. Cann rt Jermey Parnell |
| Norwell helped but the OL still below average. C- | |
| DL | le Yannick Ngakoue lt Marcell Dareus rt Malik Jackson re Calais Campbell |
| Rebuilt DL is better. B+ | |
| lb | slb Myles Jack mlb Blair Brown wlb Telvin Smith |
| Jack & Smith are as good as any OLB. Brown not so much. A- | |
| DB | lc A.J. Bouye rc Jalen Ramsey fs Tashaun Gipson ss Barry Church |
| 2 probowlers & 2 guys B+ | |
| Titans | |
| QB | Marcus Mariota |
| He had a down year last season but played well in the playoffs. C- | |
| RB | Derrick Henry & Dion Lewis (rec) |
| Lewis is too small to be a 25 carry a game back. Henry must carry the load. C | |
| WR | Rishard Matthews & Corey Davis &Taywan Taylor |
| Matthews is OK but the rest are not good. | |
| TE | Delanie Walker |
| He is a top 5 TE. A | |
| OL | lt Taylor Lewan lg Quinton Spain c Ben Jones rg Josh Kline rt Jack Conklin J |
| OL was better last year, after a shaky year in 16. B- | |
| DL | le DaQuan Jones nt Bennie Logan FA re Jurrell Casey |
| Casey is fine the rest are not good. B- | |
| lb | lob Derrick Morgan lib Wesley Woodyard rib Rashaan Evans R rolb Brian Orakpo |
| Woodyard is outstanding. Rest are OK at best B- | |
| DB | lc Logan Ryan rc Malcolm Butler fs Kevin Byard ss Johnathan Cyprien |
| Byard is OK the rest need to prove themselves C | |
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