PrometheusFaulk
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As far as one single position goes, it's hard to see how any other position is more important than QB on a football team. Now, is a good QB more valuable than an entire good defense? No. But what single position would you take over a good QB?
My position is not that there is a single position that I would take over another. My position is that they are all of equal importance. Importance by my definition in this context meaning inherent, on the field value towards winning football games.
If you were to perform a study on any past Super Bowl champion, I would venture that you would never find a constant among teams in terms of which positions were filled by elite players, which were filled by good players, which were filled by role players, and which were filled by replacement level players (terms I use to tier, I can specify if you wish and that's too vague). The constant you would find is that every champion had these elite players somewhere, at disparate positions, and that the quantity of replacement level players was minimal.
Read: where the position was was not as important as the fact that the team had several elite ones, and few to no really bad ones.
The conclusion I draw from this is that there is no one position more valuable than others, inherently. There may be positions where it is more rare to find an elite player, and I would argue a good justification for why they're paid more. You may find positions that handle the ball more or have more tasks. But I would argue that's not directly related to "responsibility for wins."
Wins and losses, and subsequently importance, IMO, is equally disbursed among every man who steps on that field.