#3. Justin Tipuric (Wales)
World ranking 2020 via Wales Online: #10 – “Is there anything the Wales flanker can’t do? Has the handling skills of an outside back combined with the lineout, breakdown and tackling fluency of the finest loose forwards in the world.”
No offence to Tipuric, but was he at any stage the tenth best player in the world? Probably not. Ruled out of the Lions tour before it even started with a dislocated shoulder, it hasn’t been the best of years for the dynamic back-rower.
