 The world will focus on your failures and ignore your successes. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in today, with social media making it easier and easier to spread negativity. So whenever we get a prediction wrong, trust me, we hear our fair share of internet basement dwellers in the comments. But when our predictions are correct, damn does it feel good to prove people wrong. I'm Hasan Khan of Time with Football and here are 10 players we were right about in 2021. 10. Dalton Schultz In 2021, Schultz had himself a career season. We were correct in predicting that Schultz would emerge as he started tight end over Blake Jarwin, whereas many other outlets like ESPN had Jarwin taking charge as a Cowboys top tight end. I mean it just didn't make any sense why Schultz wouldn't be the starter. He was good in 2020 so that means he's going back to being a second string? But people thought that was the case. However we can all now agree that it's Dalton Schultz's job moving forward. 9. Debo Samuel Now Samuel is only number 9 on this list because we predicted a much better season out of them than what other people predicted. We didn't know that he was going to go harder than Urban Meyer in a bar. We predicted that Samuel would have a better season Brandon Ayuk when everyone else was convinced that Ayuk would have a better season. It's as if Debo's injuries in 2020 was supposed to be the passing of the torch to Ayuk but anyone that watched Samuel's 2019 season would have known that he is something special. 8. Julio Jones I remember the Makri the NFL community made of the Atlanta Falcons. Besides that I'm talking about when Julio Jones was traded for his second round pick. Looking back at that ended up being a victory for the Falcons. Jones has dealt with injuries in 2021 but even in the games that he's played he averaged less than 50 yards per game. We predicted a disappointing season for Jones mainly because of common sense. Derek Henry is the focal point of the offense so majority of snaps will go to him. AJ Brown will be the number one target because of Julio's age and first year in the offense. Context clues my friends. 7. Seguan Barclay It's not that I think Seguan is bad but the Giants offense has hurt his value. If I had to stick my neck out there I'd say the passing offense was the worst in the league in 2021. Last season reports detailed how Devonte Booker would have a pivotal role to ease the workload of Barclay but many people still dub Barclay to have a season similar to his rookie year. We had very little hope for Barclay in a bad offense and in a timeshare but others bought the hype over anything else. 6. Mike Williams I'm aware that Mike Williams started off hot and didn't do much afterwards like some people but he still finished a regular season similar to our projections. We knew a breakout was bound to happen with offices and reports detailing that offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi was making it a point to feature Williams in the offense. In fancy football terms he finished as the wide receiver 16. Our preseason projection had him as the wide receiver 18, just two spots off. ESPN projected him to be the wide receiver 51. 5. T. Higgins The Bengals offense as a whole has been wonderful and it's really a pick your poison on who you want to stop. Jemar Chase, Tyler Boyd or T. Higgins For Higgins he finished the season with 74 receptions, 1091 yards and 6 touchdowns which is eerily similar to the 75 receptions, 1170 yards and 6 touchdowns season we predicted. In fancy football terms he finished as the wide receiver 18. We predicted him to be the wide receiver 16. ESPN said he would be the wide receiver 28. 4. DeAndre Swift You might see this and be like, really? People really doubted Swift? Believe it or not people said Swift would have a down year with Jemar Williams being signed and the Lions having a bad offense. But homies would praise Travis Etienne so much more than Swift even though he's part of a committee and part of a bad offense, much like Swift. In fancy football jargon we predicted him to be the running back 6th for the season. Prior to his injury he in fact was the RB6, ESPN had him as the RB20. 3. Jaylen Hertz Now we specifically said that Hertz was not going to be a prolific passer in 2021 but instead a superstar in fancy football. We looked at the four games he started in 2020 to determine that his rushing would be the reason he'd finish as a top 5 quarterback and as we predicted Hertz relied on his legs for his success. He barely missed the top 5 due to missing a game with an injury but given that we were all in on Hertz this year and other sites had projected nothing much out of him we got to give ourselves a pat on the back. Good job me! 2. Evan McPherson When the world had no idea who McPherson was we said that he was going to be the next Justin Tucker. It's a bold statement for sure but he's been deadly accurate, especially from 50 yards and beyond. McPherson finished as a top 5 kicker in the NFL and was the AFC Special Teams player of the month at one point. His clutch has a powerful leg, accurate, part of a great offense and is only 22 years old. The future is bright for McPherson. 1. Jamar Chase Ahh, the most satisfying prediction of them all. Chase was ridiculed in 3 season for his drop passes and his questionable reasoning behind his drops. And through all of it, we predicted him to be a top 10 receiver this season. It just made perfect sense. Has his college quarterback throwing him the ball, quarterback is a number 1 pick, Chase had the talent of a top 5 pick, it just all added up. Chase set numerous rookie and franchise records this year. We got a lot of crap but we stuck with it. Bottom line, don't criticize anyone's predictions until it actually does or does not happen. Keep an open mind because you never know where it can lead you. Who are some players that you predicted to go off and they did? Leave your comments down below and subscribe to this channel for more lists. Also follow us on social media, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter. Think you guessed so much for watching this video.