Recorded answers
3,151 recorded answers
How to approach it
The pool is enormous, so the real work is scouting for obscurity rather than recall. Begin by picking one league and one roster tier — a promoted club's bench, a franchise's special-teams unit, a newly signed full-back nobody has watched yet — then walk the roster until a name surfaces that you have never heard spoken aloud. Resist the first five names that arrive; they are the ones everyone else types. Check spelling variants and initials, because unusual transliterations and apostrophes tend to hide names that few solvers think of. Before committing, ask whether the person has appeared in a competitive fixture this season; a name technically on the books is what the question allows, and that margin is where the deep answers live.
Get a hint
Start from the sheer size of the pool: two leagues, dozens of squads and a spread of roles that runs from kicking specialists to full-backs who barely feature.
A little more
Walk a roster the way a scout would, through reserve defenders, third-choice goalkeepers, undrafted newcomers and academy call-ups, and you reach the seam almost nobody else digs.
One step further
Spelling is a legitimate lever: surnames buried late in the alphabet, double-barrelled forms and odd transliterations usually sit in a shallower bucket than a name everyone can type.
Reveal answers 3,151
- Caleb YirenkyiDeep Cut85points
- Calen BullockDeep Cut85points
- Callum MillsDeep Cut85points
- Callum OlusesiDeep Cut85points
- Calvin Austin IIIDeep Cut85points
- Calvin ThrockmortonDeep Cut85points
- Cam BynumDeep Cut85points
- Cam GrandyDeep Cut85points
- Cam HartDeep Cut85points
- Cam HorsleyDeep Cut85points
- Cam JacksonDeep Cut85points
- Cam JurgensDeep Cut85points
- Cam LampkinDeep Cut85points
- Cam LewisDeep Cut85points
- Cam Taylor-BrittDeep Cut85points
- Cam'Ron Silmon-CraigDeep Cut85points
- Camden BrownDeep Cut85points
- Cameron BallDeep Cut85points
- Cameron DornerDeep Cut85points
- Cameron JohnstonDeep Cut85points
- Cameron LatuDeep Cut85points
- Cameron McGroneDeep Cut85points
- Cameron MitchellDeep Cut85points
- Cameron RobertsonDeep Cut85points
- Cameron ThomasDeep Cut85points
- Cameron WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Car'lin VigersDeep Cut85points
- Carl GrandersonDeep Cut85points
- Carl JonesDeep Cut85points
- Carl LawsonDeep Cut85points
- Carl RushworthDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Washington Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Carlton Davis IIIDeep Cut85points
- Carrington ValentineDeep Cut85points
- Carsen RyanDeep Cut85points
- Carson BruenerDeep Cut85points
- Carson SchwesingerDeep Cut85points
- Carson SteeleDeep Cut85points
- Carson TowtDeep Cut85points
- Carson VinsonDeep Cut85points
- Carter RunyonDeep Cut85points
- Carver WillisDeep Cut85points
- Case KeenumDeep Cut85points
- Casey KreiterDeep Cut85points
- Casey WashingtonDeep Cut85points
- Cashius HowellDeep Cut85points
- Ceadach O’NeillDeep Cut85points
- Cedric GrayDeep Cut85points
- Cedric JohnsonDeep Cut85points
- Cedric KipreDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost everything clusters at 85 points: 2505 of the recorded answers landed in that band, which tells you the puzzle rewards depth of roster knowledge rather than household fame. The single 100-point answer, Tom King, stands alone at the top because apparently nobody else offered it. Names such as A.J. Haulcy and Aaron Banks, both at 85, are typical of that winning tier — players a devoted follower of one team knows and the wider public does not. Adetomiwa Adebawore, also at 85, fits the same profile: a rotational defender whose surname is long enough to stick only with people who actually watch the snaps. The 517 answers sitting at 60 points are the more familiar end of the scale, the picks a casual viewer reaches for first. Rarity drives the scoring, so the lesson runs against instinct: the more obvious a name feels, the less it is worth.