The NFL's Most Valuable Returners of 2025

Happy Monday everybody. Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive, where I know, this is not the QB tier list.I’ve had people asking me where the 2025 QB tier list is, and I promise it’s coming, but with the Hall of Fame game not very far in the distance, I understand I need to get on it. I haven’t forgotten about it, but a deep dive analysis on every QB season in the entire league takes time. Last year’s edition ran 25000 words, and if you know anything about the Gridiron Deep Dive, you know things don’t tend to get shorter year over year around here.I am pretty good at keeping these ‘please subscribe’ messages short though.This is not the QB tier list, but for those who like ranking lists, this will be a fun one. There is no personal opinion here. It’s simply a ranking of the NFL’s full time returners in 2025, according to the aEPA metric I designed to grade returners before this season, which simply adjusts EPA to compare each return to the average return from a qualified returner,…