J.J. Watt (Ari) Watt signed a two-year deal worth $28 million with #23 million guaranteed. He has been a first-team All-Pro just once, but there was a stretch of multiple years where he had a good claim to be the best edge defender in the game. Powered by. Once he is back to full strength, he will supply the Titans with much needed pressure off the edge with bookend edge rusher Harold Landry. They had an absolutely stacked DL and OLB group, and love to blitz. Kerry Hyder (Sea) Hyder joins the Seahawks after signing a three-year, $16.5 million contract that could reach $17.5 due to incentives. 5. He has 34.5 total sacks in five career seasons. Pass Rush Rate: 94% Sacks: 8 Sack Rate: 3.0% Pressures: 35 Pressure Rate: 14.2% Courtesy of SIS Data Hub Pro Phillips is the most unknown quantity of the group for 2021. Bosa drew more than one defender the moment he arrived to the NFL. Give me lots of offensive lineman with upside and extra defensive backs. Maxx Crosby had a true breakout 2021 season and led the NFL in pressures, becoming only the third player to post more than 100 in a season since 2006 (101). He is a 26-year old, four-year veteran that tallied 13.5 sacks for the Saints in 2020. Hes a strong third-year breakout candidate in 2021. 8. This year, he hasn't been as. His PFF run-defense grade was just 40.4 last season. During the NFL Draft, the San Francisco 49ers are expected to draft a pass rusher. Carl Lawson, Jets Who takes the top spot, Myles Garrett or T.J. Watt? Hell look to build on that in his return from a 2020 season lost to injury. Sign up for the Rams Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Its odd that a team of people who actually get paid to write doesnt seem to know this between them, but people who do great things (i.e. The y-axis shows pass rush win rate. Brian Burns has already reached that level but is evidence of how dangerous it can be to assume it will continue linearly. Heres what a healthy Bosa has additionally managed to do through five games: He and Arizonas Chandler Jones are the NFC West leaders in sacks. This season according to PFF, Bosa has been on the field for 147 pass rush snaps out of the 230 defensive plays hes seen on the field. While responsibilities vary between a base 4-3 defensive end and a 3-4 outside linebacker, their roles are more aligned than that of a 3-4 outside linebacker and most 4-3 outside linebackers. Fantasy Points: The Raiders supplied new defensive coordinator Gus Bradley with a pass rushing weapon. Fixed now. Cracking the top 20 all-time sack list is on the agenda for both players. Floyd signed a one-year prove-it deal going into 2020 and now capitalizes on a successful season. This likely means Jenkins was signed to be an edge rusher from the defensive end position but he could play OLB in new defensive coordinator Lovie Smiths system. Most of his improvement came as a pass-rusher, where Burns improved his pass-rushing grade from 68.7 in 2019 to 86.9 last year. That's way too athletic to guard. However, he still has a better pass rush win percentage (20.7%) than Khalil Mack (20.0%) - who is double-teamed over 10% less than Smith. Run stop % measures the percentage of the snaps the player got a run stop, and P.R.P measures the win . I want to see AB dust off the Sashi playbook and trade back to get a million mid rounders. By Dalton Miller June 6, 2022 Jump around this article Click to show That ranked him 13th overall in NFL snap count among edge rushers. His rookie season was nothing short of spectacular. A league-high 39 of his 142 pressures since 2018 were unblocked thats why he doesnt fall any higher on this list. Bosa is a top 2-3 run-defending edge in the league on top of being an elite pass rusher. Clowney never posted 44 to 52 total tackles in his last three seasons with Houston, but has just 44 total tackles in the last two seasons combined. Those are similar numbers to Justin Hollins (three sacks, three TFL, 5 QB hits), and hes making $14.3 million less per year. 25. The most double teamed EDGE in the entire NFL this season? In 2019 when Washington ran a 3-4 base defense, Anderson started four of his 16 games played and posted 40 total tackles and four sacks. And he still managed to be one of the league's top edge rushers. Breaking Down Donald vs. Watt vs. Howard. Its important to remember that rankings like this are largely fluid year-to-year, especially when you get outside the first eight edge defenders. Burns is another edge defender from the 2019 draft class who made major strides in his second season in the NFL. Theres a drop-off after the top 16, but a lot of these players are still really solid starters with the ability to be a problem for opposing offenses. He can win inside, outside and with power, which makes him impossible to predict pre-snap. With more help around him on the defensive line, he could be in line for another career year that might earn him a little more recognition. SR's Fab 5: Top 5 Greatest Bucs At All Positions, Bucs Training Camp Battle: Wide Receivers. He didn't face many in 2021. 8/10 Demarcus Lawrence, Dallas Cowboys, 90 OVR. In fact out of a possible 112 total games, Attaochu has missed 38 games or 34% of his opportunities. 13. Gets the QB hit but destroys multiple guys on the way. 1 and No. His starting role with the Buccaneers has resulted in 157 total pressures since 2019, more than any other edge defender in the NFL. Hitler is infamous. I'd say it's relatively safe so talk all the shit you want to bengals fans! According to an online graphic revealed by ESPN Sports Analytics writer Seth Walder on the morning of Tuesday, October 12, Bosa draws the third-highest double teams through Week 5 and draws two blockers at the highest rate among NFC West defenders. If there is a knock on Ngakoue, it is his run stopping ability. Montez Sweat has been an excellent run defender in the NFL and flashed his pass-rush potential, but he needs to put it together more consistently. Few edge defenders improved more from 2019 to 2020 than Sweat did in his second year in the NFL. Highest double team rate when pass rushing as an edge, 2018-2020. I dont think any defensive lineman in the league, with the exception of Aaron Donald, can impact the game like Myles Garrett. Fantasy Points: Seattle continued to upgrade their pass rush with their newest addition in Smith. His 79.4 pass-rushing grade in 2020 was a top-15 grade at the position. Hes a well-rounded player who has grown technically in his pass rush game by leaps and bounds. Jerry Hughes is virtually a guaranteed 50 pressures to any defense hes on, even at this age. The biggest question heading into the 2021 season is whether hell remain healthy throughout the year. Bosas 80 pressures were over 10 more than the next closest rookie season since PFF began charting back in 2006. Arik Armstead, 49ers As for Miller and Jones, there is no question that they are capable of greatness. Before that, Bosa wrecked three different blocks before getting to Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks in Week 4. After looking at the NFL offensive tackle class a few days ago, it's now time to shift focus to the defensive side of the ball . The key for Cleveland will be keeping him healthy on what appears to be a much-improved defense following this offseason. In 2019, the Cowboys trotted out Demarcus Lawrence and Robert Quinn, who both ranked in the top-5 of pass rush win rate. Where he'll make an impact in the NFL. He is capable of stretches of elite play, but they never sustain, and his overall PFF grade has declined each season since he left Houston. Specifically, it all starts with Bosa, who is having. Fantasy Points: Clowney is coming off early December surgery to repair his left meniscus. 14 tackles, 5 assists, 5 sacks, 8 TFLs, 10 QB hits, 19 pressures, 1 FF. Over the past three seasons, Hughes 19.8% pass-rush win rate ranks fifth among qualifiers at the position. But he still rated fourth overall in pass rush winning rate: Possibly the most telling stat about his season: Nick Bosa was double teamed more than all but nine rushers on this list. Age on September 1, 2021: 26.7; Free agent EDGE ranking: 9th of 43; Jet X breakdown; Hendrickson ranked 21st among edge rushers with 49 pressures despite ranking 44th with 369 pass-rush snaps. A broken bone in his foot caused him to miss time, but upon returning he looked like the dominant rusher fans expected. 15. Jason Pierre-Paul, Bucs Bold move. Even with the trench version of double coverage placed on him, the third-year defensive end and 23-year-old is on pace to collect 17.0 sacks, which would give him both a career-high and reward him with his first season of surpassing the double-digit sack plateau. The four-year extension he signed with the team this offseason was well earned. He has been a 95th-percentile run defender at the position since 2014 and put up pass-rushing grades of 75.0 or higher for the first time in his career in each of the 2018 and 2019 seasons. I would rather see us move up / get extra 2nd and 3rd picks. Carlos Dunlap (Sea) Dunlap re-signed with Seattle on a two-year deal worth $16.6 million with $8.5 million guaranteed. He had 20 total tackles last year and has never posted 40 or more total tackles in any given season. We have seen just seven games and 334 snaps of Hunter since his dominant 2019 season, and while he is still just 27 years old, that injury history is concerning until he can return to the kind of play that saw him rack up 88 pressures in a single season. Double team - ( New Window ) 27. Shaquil Barrett (TB) Barrett agreed to a four-year deal worth $72 million with $36 million guaranteed. but you'll have to sign up in order to access our other articles and content! So is his effort. Was pretty easy to mitigate his impact in the playoff game. The Bosa brothers have become dominant NFL forces just the way they were in college, with never much to separate the two. That combination of durability and high-level play is why Jordan ranks second at the position in total pressures since 2015 (428), trailing only Khalil Mack and Aaron Donald among all defenders. pic.twitter.com/TNqQS63BuJ, 49ersFilmFavorites (@49ers_Film) October 8, 2021. ZaDarius Smith, Packers Justin Varnes and Tom Simons are covering every major defensive transaction from the 2021 off-season in our Off-season Tracker articles. Jadeveon Clowney, Browns Since 2020, Hendrickson ranks in the league's top three with 27.5 sacks (third), 52 QB hits (third), 136 pressures (tied for third) and a pressure rate of 18.6 percent (first), per Next Gen Stats. Now we turn to edge defenders. Jadeveon Clowney (Cle) Clowney signed a one-year contract with Cleveland worth up to $10 million. Over the last three years, Armsteads 88.5 run-defense grade is a top-10 mark among edge defenders. Compare that chart to the one for defensive tackles and the difference is startling. He did sit out the season finale when he was placed on the Covid-19 list. John Franklin-Meyers may never generate a lot of sacks, but he notched 50 or more pressures in each of the past two seasons and his PFF grade has improved each year of his career. Randy Gregorys concern isnt injuries as much as it is suspensions, given his history. Clowneys stock across the league is seemingly at a low point as he comes off two injury-limited seasons with Seattle and Tennessee. Dude just euro stepping past tackles. I guess in terms of recent production you could put few in front of Mack but your comment that any DE would say Mack is hardest one on one says to me at least hes still the best. Join the Heavy on 49ers newsletter here! By Sam Monson. So far, the speedy wideout has provided a downfield threat on paper more than in Bears edge rusher Khalil Mack has been ranked as the No. Haason Reddick (Car) Reddick signed a one-year deal worth $8 million with $6 million guaranteed. Highest pass-rush win rates from pure outside-the-tackle alignments in 2021, per @PFF: Maxx Crosby (27%) Rashan Gary (26%) Myles Garrett (26%) TJ Watt (22%) Austin Gayle (@PFF_AustinGayle) January 18, 2022 Anyone who watched the Browns throughout the season knows Garrett wasn't left alone with an offensive tackle on most snaps. Now they have to account for Clowney as well. 10. 24. April 15, 2021 7:16pm EDT. Sorry, Jaelan Phillips. 23. Floyd won more than 10% of his pass-rush reps, but he was also doubled less than 15% of the time. At 28, Barrett probably is who he is at this point. Fantasy Points: This is a risky move for Tennessee. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Garrett's pass-rush win rate of 26.3% last season ranked third among edge rushers despite facing 104 double teams. After signing a three-year, $30 million contract with Miami last year, he had limited success with the Dolphins. Gary had 81 pressures, more than his previous two seasons combined, and now looks like he could be a true difference-maker going forward. Since 2014, Graham ranks tied for 16th at the position in total sacks, but only Khalil Mack, Cameron Jordan and Von Miller have recorded more pressures than Graham has (445). He finished 2021 as football's 11th-ranked edge rusher and received the . His 4-sack run to a Super Bowl title will live in Bucs infamy. Hunter also missed the 2020 season with a neck injury, but had piled up 54.5 sacks and 67 tackles-for-loss in his first five seasons. Cleveland dominates the trenches in the pass game on both offense and defense! We hope you're enjoying this old content for FREE. A fourth-round pick in 2021, Jordan was on the field for only 21 snaps in two games and . When Bud Dupree was a free agent a big talking point was the 60% of his sacks came unblocked or at best was being chipped. It started with a dominant 2019 season in which Smith posted a career-high 89.7 overall grade and led the NFL in pressures with 93. Who was the Offensive Player of the Year in 2021? Double team rate as an edge (x) by pass rush win rate as an edge (y) for the 2020 regular season. How he bounces back from the injury will determine if he can contend for EDGE1 next season. He ranks in the 98th percentile in pass-rushing grade, pass-rush grade on true pass sets and pass-rush grade without play action. Barrett has taken full advantage of the increased opportunity that came with his move to Tampa Bay. Judon is coming off four seasons of steady contribution in Baltimore, grading between 66.0 and 69.2 on at least 600 defensive snaps in every season since 2017. While never posting flashy numbers, Jones was a solidly productive edge rusher with 19.0 TFL and 7.0 sacks over his four seasons with the team. It will be interesting to see how that translates to Tennessee. However, that 2020 grade came in just over 300 snaps, as Flowers season was cut short by a fractured forearm. His 22.5% pass-rush win rate ranked eighth among all NFL defenders, and he. Yeah, he doesn't get double teamed nearly as often as the other top edge rushers. Attaochu has not played a full 16 game season since coming into the league in 2014. Highest double team rate for edge rushers in 2020: 1. Health and a suspension have been the only thing holding him back from being unanimously recognized as EDGE1. When that happens basically somebody can run in unblocked. In the two seasons prior to last year, Jenkins had 15 total sacks. Tennessee allowed over 50% of third downs to be converted by opponents. Hughes is still an effective edge rusher. 6. So, both 4-3 defensive ends and 3-4 outside linebackers get labeled together as edge defenders. Lawrence has been one of the leagues best in that department, putting up a top-10 pass-rush win rate at the position since 2017. Facing two linemen is nothing new for the 6-foot-4, 266-pounder out of Ohio State. 2021 Positional Tracker: Edge Rushers. Bosas tape was awe-inspiring in 2019. 2. In eight games with the Seahawks last year, Dunlap started six of them and posted five sacks. Ive been talking reckless to my buddies who are bengals fans. He won on 15 of those (14.4%), which ranked 12 in the league." "Built. Floyds 69.5 PFF grade in 2020 was almost identical to the 69.6 grades he recorded in 2018 and 2019 with Chicago. Watt is the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, but Garrett posted the better PFF grade and pressure rate and had several other stats go in his favor last season. Here, we are going to rank them into tiers. Ngakoue should give some new life to the pass rush under first-year defensive coordinator Gus Bradley. And he won those blocks at the fourth-highest rate. Is Khalil Mack still elite? Not when were running a blitz package. He didnt have a full opportunity to build on that momentum last season, given the injury that limited him to fewer than 400 snaps on the year, but Allen did raise his pass-rushing grade by four points in his limited action. As long as he remains healthy and does not have any issues with league policies, Smith will play an important role with the Seahawks defense in 2021. Fantasy Points: The Bengals traded Carlos Dunlap away last year and let Carl Lawson leave via free agency this offseason. He now needs to show that wasnt a flash in the pan. He put up an 84.5 pass-rushing grade over 10 points higher than his previous career high and 88 quarterback pressures in 2019. The next way Clark could improve in 2021 is by simply winning more one-on-one snaps. Xavien Howard was the best cornerback in football in 2020. Sam Hubbard, Leonard Floyd, and Maxx Crosby are the only edge rushers to rush the passer more often than Bosa in 2021. Both boast elite PFF grades and elite pressure totals over their NFL careers and are candidates for dominant seasons at any given time. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. When Chandler Jones went down for the season in 2020, Reddick was moved outside to fill the EDGE rushing vacancy and he flashed signs of the potential he had coming into the league. Khalil Mack, Bears. Lawrence can single-handedly diagnose and blow up a play . Were now in a position where the draft is all about accumulating depth at key positions. The goal of the edge defender designation is to avoid comparing players who have very different roles, something that has reared its head in a Pro Bowl ballot or two over the years. The return of Romeo Okwara off an Achilles injury that forced him to miss 13 games last year should give the Lions a boost in this department, but as a team in 2021, Detroit finished with the third fewest sacks in the league (30), and their pass-rush win rate was the second lowest in the NFL. We dont need 9 drafted players but are in a win now mode. Myles Garrett 4. In any given game or even season, though, Garrett is well capable of being better. Double team rate (x) by pass rush win rate (y), regardless of where players line up. Nick Bosa pressures Kyler Murray during the Sunday, October 10, road game in Arizona. He says he will be ready for training camp, but there is a chance he starts the season on the Physically-Unable-to-Perform list (PUP). Its reasonable to expect Hughes to lose a step here soon, as he will enter next season at 33 years old, but he has shown little sign of decline of late in Buffalo. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Home | 2021 NFL EDGE Rankings: Who Is NFLs Best Edge Rusher? Ingram still put up pass-rushing grades above 75.0 in each of the past two years and has plenty to offer teams as a pass-rusher. Then, in 2020, Bosa tore his ACL after just 68 snaps. Pace had 46 sacks in eight years with the team but was never . Mack falls outside the top 10 edge defenders in the NFL in total sacks over the last two seasons, but that is just one number that doesnt reflect how dominant he has been on the field. Donald is in his own area in the upper-right corner, where no other defensive tackle resides. Double teamed at a higher rate than khalil mack and chase young last year. If that's the case, the Niners. Its worth remembering that Clowney is still one of the most disruptive edge defenders in the league when healthy, though. Brandon Graham 5. At first, we thought this signjing would mean the end of Carlos Dunlap as a Seahawk, especially after Seattle re-signed Benson Mayowa. "Garrett's pass-rush win rate of 26.3% last season ranked third among edge rushers despite facing 104 double teams. You will have to pick and choose your spots with him in your fantasy lineup, but he is a serviceable option. Who is the all-time NFL receiving leader? rack up 4 sacks in a postseason on a wayRead more . Ferrell hasnt lived up to the expectations that come with being a top-five pick in the NFL draft, but he was much improved in his second season out of Clemson in 2020. Watt has been the third most valuable edge defender in the league since 2018, per PFF WAR. 2021 which NFL edge rusher gets doubled team the most. Brian Burns, Panthers There is a real possibility for decline, but Millers resume speaks for itself. From 2016 through 2019, no player in the league had a higher pressure rate with his team leading by 7 or more points than Ngakoue (14.7 percent), and 31.5 of his 45.5 career sacks have come on the . Of his 19.5 sacks that year, like two of them were manufactured. That has led many to believe that he's been a disappointing player in the NFL. His high double-team rate and Floyds low number is what we call the Aaron Donald effect.. Jadeveon Clowney twitter 118 53 53 comments Best stasismachine 1 yr. ago Noticeably missing from this list is T.J. Watt. Whether or not he returns to clear form, teams have already been putting everything they have on Garrett for years. He ended each of the 2019 and 2020 seasons with PFF grades of at least 82.0, continuing his strong play both against the run and pass from his time with the Patriots. Chandler Jones' run defense is falling off, but his past two predominantly healthy years featured pass-rushing grades of at least 87.7 and he recorded double-digit sacks in each. There are simply no real weaknesses in his game. We handed out grades for each rookie from the Rams' 2022 draft class. The run stop rate is second best in the league only behind Cameron. In terms of pass rush win rate, Parsons has an outstanding 32% which leads all edge rushers. Few NFL arguments are as explosive as the one surrounding who the better edge rusher is: T.J. Watt or Myles Garrett. Many of the up-and-coming pass rushers find themselves in this range. The Bengals scare me as much or more than any other team in the North. ANALYST. As for the list well see on Shaq. Bosa is healthier now compared to 2020 and hes doing damage regardless if two 300-plus pound bodies or a LT/TE combo are locked in on him. When Gregory Rousseau opted out of the 2020 season, Miami's football team needed an answer to replace his production from the . Joey Bosa, Chargers But his rookie season was not on par with Nick Bosas or T.J. Watts or Joey Bosas. He enjoyed his first double-digit pressure game in multiple years and earned a 93.0 PFF grade during the Rams' playoff run to a Super Bowl. Fantasy Points: Jenkins has been in a 3-4 base defense since coming into the league in 2016. But this is how I expect edge pass rusher play to stack up across the NFL in 2021. Where do Shaq Barrett and Jason Pierre-Paul rank across the league? 18. The production is good, but it only tells part of the story. The man is one of the top pass-rushers in the NFL, racking up the seventh-most sacks (32) in the league over the last three seasons. Browns EDGE Myles Garrett Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR. Bradley Chubb, Broncos Noticeably missing from this list is T.J. Watt. For a 49ers team that leads the NFL in scoring defense, total defense, rushing defense, and pass TD-INT ratio allowed, it all starts up front. Over the past three seasons, Hughes' 19.8% pass-rush win rate ranks fifth among qualifiers at the position. He has posted eight or more sacks in all five of his NFL seasons, and that includes a split season in 2020 with Minnesota and Baltimore. My bet is that by this time next year, hes a consensus second tier edge rusher. They probably arent elite pass rushers right now, but theyll make you work all game and nobody is better at defending the run. January 5, 2021. 2 in PFF grade, with just one-tenth of a grading point separating them (91.9 for Garrett to 91.8 for Watt). Im guessing movement amidst this tier is going to be pretty fluid next year, with a few guys having a chance to jump up a group. Fantasy Points: The Jets are going to shift to a 4-3 base defense under new head coach Robert Saleh and his defense demands having solid pass rushers. Lawrences 90.1 run-defense grade over the last four seasons makes him one of just seven players at the position to clear the 90.0 mark since 2017. He ranks in the 87th percentile of all qualifying players at the position in run defense grade across the past six seasons. Yannick Ngakoue, Raiders J.J. Watt led all edge rushers in double teams with right around 30%, Cameron Heyward is toward the bottom for . Fantasy Points: Hard to say this is a risky proposition for the reigning Super Bowl champions. Demarcus Lawrence, Cowboys 25. I didnt intend for this to be the injury tier, but thats how the rankings worked out. Jadeveon Clowney has been searching for a big-money, long-term contract for years now but never manages to earn one. Going purely off of pass-rushing production, its difficult to top what Watt has been able to do over the past two seasons in Pittsburgh.
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