Tebow is the 95th best player in the NFL for 2012? OK then. (Getty Images)

If there was one thing I noticed during a weekend in New York for the NFL Draft, it's that the NFL really likes Tim Tebow and isn't afraid to promote him. Which is why it's not that surprising that he ranked 95th on the "Top 100 Players of 2012" list that the NFL Network began unveiling this week.

No, Mark Sanchez was not ranked.

"As a player, when you put in all that hard work, you just want to be respected by your teammates, your competitors, the people that you go against every single week," Tebow said during the reactions show, per NFL.com. "It truly is an honor for me to be on this list because there are so many great players in the NFL, and for just a few of them to respect me enough to put me on this list, it really means a lot."

The four guys on the list who finished behind Tebow are: Chris Johnson, Ryan Kalil, Willis McGahee, Donald Penn and D'Qwell Jackson.

More perplexing are the rest of the guys in the 91-100 range, the show of which aired on Monday afternoon: Marshawn Lynch, Cortland Finnegan, John Kuhn and Tony Romo.

I'm not sure what's more insulting, Tebow's inclusion or the fact that Romo was only considered slightly better in 2011 than Kuhn, who played fullback for the Packers. The ultimate irony is that Rod Woodson was asked about the absurdity of having a fullback on the list, but the guy being discussed wasn't Tebow.

"Question: how does a guy who began last season as a backup and who will begin this season as a backup make it into the top 100 of 2012?" the narration to Tebow's segment begins, accompanied by a picture of Tebow running on the field. "The answer: do you really need an answer? It's Tim Tebow."

The narrator then points out that Tebow's game is "marred by long stretches of poor play." Think about it: to push Tebow out of the top 100, you need to name slightly more than just three players per team that you think are better. That's laughable.

The reality is that the NFL knows Tebow moves the needle, sells jerseys, creates interest in the game and drives discussion. There was zero chance they were leaving him off this list. 95 was just as high as they felt letting him go.

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