NFL's make-or-break players (and coaches) who could determine their team's fate this season

How these guys perform in 2021 will be paramount

It's officially Subjective List SZN in the NFL. A season that, basically, spans from the start of training camp through the end of OTAs the following year, is now truly in its offseason. Nothing is happening in the NFL. In a few weeks it will all ramp back up again. Seems as good a time as any to take a look at each team in the NFL, as presently constructed, and try to find a player whom the season might hinge upon. And, more to the point, not to default to the quarterback or the kid they just selected in the first round as the player to keep the closest eye on ... Except in certain cases, well, it really is undoubtedly the quarterback and there is no counterargument (Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Houston). And in some cases that player is actually a coach (or, in the case of one team that seems to be perpetually too cute with its staffing, it's actually two coaches performing the same job). Make sense? Yeah, probably not entirely. Perhaps it will when you get to the bottom.