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Health-Neutral Fantasy Football Rankings

On Monday, I posted my Opportunity-Neutral Rankings, i.e., how players would rank if they all had the same number of attempts/carries/targets. Today we'll eliminate a different variable: health. These rankings are assuming every player were 100 percent healthy for every game in which they're eligible (suspensions are still counted against them, however). For these I used PPR:

QBRBWRTE
1Aaron RodgersJamaal CharlesCalvin JohnsonRob Gronkowski
2Peyton ManningLeSean McCoyDemaryius ThomasJimmy Graham
3Drew BreesAdrian PetersonJulio JonesJulius Thomas
4Robert GriffinMatt ForteDez BryantJordan Cameron
5Nick FolesArian FosterJordy NelsonGreg Olsen
6Andrew LuckDeMarco MurrayA.J. GreenVernon Davis
7Tony RomoEddie LacyBrandon MarshallJordan Reed
8Tom BradyMontee BallAlshon JefferyDennis Pitta
9Matt RyanC.J. SpillerKeenan AllenJason Witten
10Cam NewtonGiovani BernardRandall CobbZach Ertz
11Matt StaffordLe'Veon BellAndre JohnsonKyle Rudolph
12Colin KaepernickRyan MathewsVincent JacksonCharles Clay
13Jay CutlerZac StacyAntonio BrownLaDarius Green
14Russell WilsonDoug MartinVictor CruzMartellus Bennett
15Philip RiversShane VereenPercy HarvinDwayne Allen
16Ben RoethlisbergerRashad JenningsWes WelkerHeath Miller
17Alex SmithMarshawn LynchMichael FloydTyler Eifert
18Johnny ManzielAndre EllingtonJeremy MaclinGarrett Graham
19EJ ManuelPierre ThomasPierre GarconJared Cook
20Jake LockerReggie BushMichael CrabtreeEric Ebron
21Alfred MorrisLarry Fitzgerald
22Ben TateCordarrelle Patterson
23Bishop SankeyRoddy White
24Joique BellT.Y. Hilton
25Toby GerhartDeSean Jackson
26Ray RiceMarques Colston
27Darren SprolesTorrey Smith
28Chris JohnsonEric Decker
29Steven JacksonCecil Shorts
30Maurice Jones-DrewKendall Wright

The beneficiaries are obviously the injury-prone players like Rob Gronkowski, Julio Jones, Arian Foster, Ryan Mathews, Tony Romo and DeMarco Murray. Durable players like Jason Witten, Vernon Davis and Alfred Morris slip down. If you believe injuries are, to a large extent, random, these lists offer an idea of who's undervalued and overvalued based on misperceptions about health. Of course, Darren McFadden, who used to rank highly on these lists, is a reminder not to buy into the "injuries are random" school entirely.