NFL Playoff Picture: Players That Will Be Unstoppable on Wild Card Weekend

It should be noted immediately that Tim Tebow will not be listed as a player who will be unstoppable this weekend.

A shocker, I know.

But there is a tight end that should absolutely carve up a defense during Wild Card Weekend. And a few quarterbacks. And a cornerback that is going to shut down a big-time receiver—even if his team can't pull out the win.

Let's get started.

Jimmy Graham

Did you hear about how Matt Flynn threw for 480 yards and six touchdowns against the Lions last week? Or about how Jimmy Graham had eight receptions for 89 yards the first time these two teams met?

And that was actually a down week in a season in which Graham had 99 catches for 1,310 yards and 11 touchdowns.

I feel confident stating that Jimmy Graham will torch the Lions defense for seven receptions, 115 yards and two touchdowns.

And Rob Gronkowski will be watching and feel inclined to call Tom Brady and say, "Hey, dude—we've gotta go big in the playoffs next week. I can't have Graham showing me up like this."

Or something like that.

The NFC Quarterbacks

That means you, Drew Brees, Matt Stafford, Eli Manning and Matt Ryan.

Only two of these guys will win (I say Brees and Ryan), but all of them will have huge games through the air against defenses that have been suspect against the pass all season long. (The best defense in this regard is Atlanta, 20th against the pass this year.)

While the AFC games will be all about defense—that happens when Andy Dalton, T.J. Yates and Tim Tebow are quarterbacking three of the four teams—the NFC games will be high-flying shootouts.

Jonathan Joseph

Okay, so I'm not sure how a cornerback can be unstoppable. But I think he'll render A.J. Green extremely, um, stoppable this week.

What I'm trying to say is that Joseph will take Green—a key member of the Bengals passing offense—out of the game this weekend, just like he did in Week 14, when he held Green to five catches for 59 yards.

I still believe the Bengals will find a way to win this game—I can't get behind Yates or a Texans team that has dropped three straight—but they're going to have to do it without a major contribution from their stud rookie receiver thanks to Joseph.

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