The Most-Propped NFL Players

How this was measured

• What a lined game is. A game in which at least one sportsbook posted a number on this player AND he actually played. A prop on a player later ruled out has no result, so it is not a lined game. Both the season count and the archive count use that same definition.
• The junk-outcome rule, applied before anything is ranked. The outcome column of the touchdown market is not a player column: it also carries the no-scorer legs and all 32 team defenses in two naming styles. Left in, they would open this table. They are excluded in the database before a single row is counted.
• How a quote becomes a player. Names are folded to one form on both sides (suffixes, periods and accents removed) and then attributed by the event: a quote belongs to the player whose team is one of the two clubs playing that day. 242 folded names in our game logs cover more than one player, so anything still ambiguous after that is dropped rather than guessed.
• Event dating. Every event is dated in Eastern time. A Sunday-night kickoff falls on the next calendar day in UTC, so dating in UTC would quietly drop every prime-time game from these counts.
• The defensive window is shorter, and the table says so on every row. Sacks and solo tackles first appear in our archive on 2024-09-05, where the offensive markets start on 2023-09-07. A defender therefore cannot accumulate archive-wide lined games at the rate a quarterback can, and the ranking metric is a single completed season for exactly that reason. Each row carries its own first and last lined date so the comparison is never made silently.
• Ties. Broken by archive lined games, then market count, then name.
• Who is eligible. The 100 players who have a page on this site, each of whom cleared a 30-lined-game minimum before the page was built. This is a list of the most-propped players we cover, not of every player a book has ever priced.