Recorded answers
519 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the league as a grid and fill it in from memory, one franchise at a time, rather than free-associating famous names. Begin with whatever team you can reconstruct most completely; writing out even eight or nine names per roster usually shakes loose a few deep-bench players you had forgotten were still under contract. When a team stalls, jump to a different one and come back later. The goal is volume of candidates, not brilliance: most people lose points by offering the first superstar that comes to mind, because half the field does the same. Once you have a long list, choose the name you are most confident is genuinely rostered but least expect a stranger to mention, which is usually a recent second-round pick, a two-way conversion or an injury replacement.
Get a hint
Start from the whole league rather than a single conference: each team carries a dozen or more contracted players, and any one of those names is a legitimate entry.
A little more
Push beyond the starting five into second units, injury replacements and players recalled from the development ranks, where the crowd of possible guesses thins out quickly.
One step further
Picture rosters after the most recent off-season churn: undrafted signings, two-way conversions and overseas imports whose names only one fan base can spell.
Reveal answers 519
- Jalen SmithDeep Cut85points
- Jalen WilsonDeep Cut85points
- Jamal CainDeep Cut85points
- Jamal SheadDeep Cut85points
- Jamaree BouyeaDeep Cut85points
- Jamir WatkinsDeep Cut85points
- Jamison BattleDeep Cut85points
- Jarace WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Jaron Pierre Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Jase RichardsonDeep Cut85points
- Javon SmallDeep Cut85points
- Javonte GreenDeep Cut85points
- Jay HuffDeep Cut85points
- Jayden QuaintanceDeep Cut85points
- Jaylen ClarkDeep Cut85points
- Jaylin SellersDeep Cut85points
- Jaylin WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Jaylon TysonDeep Cut85points
- Jayson KentDeep Cut85points
- Jericho SimsDeep Cut85points
- Jett HowardDeep Cut85points
- Jevon CarterDeep Cut85points
- Joan BeringerDeep Cut85points
- Jock LandaleDeep Cut85points
- John TonjeDeep Cut85points
- Johnny FurphyDeep Cut85points
- Jonathan MogboDeep Cut85points
- Jordan GoodwinDeep Cut85points
- Jordan HawkinsDeep Cut85points
- Jordan McLaughlinDeep Cut85points
- Jordan MillerDeep Cut85points
- Jordan WalshDeep Cut85points
- Josh DixDeep Cut85points
- Josh GreenDeep Cut85points
- Josh MinottDeep Cut85points
- Josh OkogieDeep Cut85points
- Joshua JeffersonDeep Cut85points
- Julian ChampagnieDeep Cut85points
- Julian PhillipsDeep Cut85points
- Julian ReeseDeep Cut85points
- Julian StrawtherDeep Cut85points
- Justin ChampagnieDeep Cut85points
- Justin EdwardsDeep Cut85points
- Kam JonesDeep Cut85points
- Karim LopezDeep Cut85points
- Karlo MatkovićDeep Cut85points
- Kasparas JakučionisDeep Cut85points
- Keaton WaglerDeep Cut85points
- Kenrich WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Keon EllisDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
With 519 recorded answers and 487 of them clearing the sixty-point floor, this prompt rewards anyone who can produce a name at all; the real contest is happening in the middle and top bands. The reveal splits into 268 answers at eighty-five and 218 at sixty, which suggests the crowded tier is the lower one: the names nearly every respondent reaches for first cluster there, since repetition is what pulls a score down. The examples printed for the middle band are almost all rotation fringe or recent arrivals, Aaron Wiggins, Aday Mara, Adem Bona, Baylor Scheierman and Cam Christie among them, players a committed fan recognises instantly and a casual one does not. That is exactly the profile which lands at eighty-five: obscure enough to thin the crowd, common enough that a few dozen people independently found it. Pat Spencer sits alone at one hundred, meaning a single respondent named him and nobody duplicated the pick, which is what the top of the scale looks like.