Ranking every Utah Jazz player by how impactful they can be this year

We’re ranking every Utah Jazz player by how impactful we expect them to be this season.

All sports teams have a pecking order. There’s the leader of the team, the star of the whole show and the guys you’re only going to see if things go terribly, terribly wrong. The Utah Jazz are no different in that regard. They have a star in Lauri Markkanen that they hope gets them back to the playoffs. Then they have guys like Johnny Juzang, who if he’s getting minutes, something has gone wrong.

That’s not a knock on Juzang, but he’s just not being given much of a chance to start over guys like Jordan Clarkson.

Every guy has a role to play and some are more important than others, but among the Utah Jazz, who is the most important? Is it Markkanen? Is it Juzang? (It’s not Juzang), is it Clarkson? Let’s find out as we rank every player on the Utah Jazz by their most likelihood to make an impact on the team.

Firstly, let’s start with the honorable mentions.

Josh Christopher, Micah Potter, Johnny Juzang

These three men make up the two-way contracts that the Utah Jazz currently enlist. They could change at any time, but currently, Josh Christopher, Micah Potter, and Johnny Juzang make up the three plays. You can put them in any order, but the order I’d put them in is Josh Christopher is the least of the three you can rely on.

Christopher isn’t a great shooter and is already on his second team after just being drafted a couple of years ago. He’s got some issues as a prospect. For Potter, he’s coming in second. He’s a solid rebounder, but he isn’t athletic enough to make up for a lack of refined shooting. Then there’s Juzang, the most likely of the three to see any real-time on the pro squad.