The articles are ordered by players changing teams ("New Homes") and by players sticking with their 2020 teams ("Staying Put"). Dunlap wanted to stay in Seattle and was amicable to being released and signing a new, cap-friendly deal. Davenport has played more than 500 snaps in a season only once in four years and has never recorded more than 51 pressures in a single season. . Few edge defenders improved more from 2019 to 2020 than Sweat did in his second year in the NFL. The Bengals haven't taken a defensive lineman earlier than the third . So he's not getting pressures or even being double teamed that much. The can't-miss prospect out of the 2020 draft proved that he was up to that description during his rookie season. Jadeveon Clowney (Cle) Clowney signed a one-year contract with Cleveland worth up to $10 million. Fantasy Points: Lawson is no J.J. Watt and the Texans are very clear about that. 1. He rarely comes off the field and has earned six consecutive PFF grades of 82.0 or higher. Hendricksons 2020 season with the Saints was an outlier given the prior three seasons in his career. His 140 pressures over that same stretch are nearly double the amount he recorded in his first three years in the league (76). The biggest question heading into the 2021 season is whether hell remain healthy throughout the year. January 5, 2021. So tell me again how many 19.5 sack seasons has Nick Bosa recorded? Khalil Mack continues to be among the leagues best edge defenders and has the highest PFF run-defense grade of any edge rusher over the past two seasons (90.6). Mack is still creating pressure at a tremendous rate, and his run defense will never be in question. Burns has elite rush ability but needs to get back to his best play. Its really hard to double team anyone when Pittsburgh brings 5-6 guys more than anyone else in the league - youd just be giving a free lane to the QB. Lawson could become the most impactful edge rusher that the Jets have had on defense in the past decade. Plus, by request from @DaneBeavers, label colors indicate 2020 cap hit (red = high).. The obvious leader of the edge class is Alabama's OLB Will Young who is both an elite run defender and pass rusher and has the speed and measurables comparable to Von Miller. Boasting a well-refined repertoire off pass-rush moves, including the cross-chop, two-hand swipe, rip, club and swim, Hutchinson's pressure rate of 31.3% when lined up on the edge in 2021 was tops among all edge prospects. With Lawson lined up next to Quinnen Williams, the Jets now have a solid inside-outside combo to power Salehs defense. Collectively, Watt has missed roughly 3.5 games this year because of injuries and has played through his bumps and bruises after missing ample practice time this year. Listed at 6-foot-7 and 292 pounds, Armstead has shown he can play both on the interior and edge in San Francisco after moving past several injuries that limited him to fewer than 400 defensive snaps in each of his first three NFL seasons. Trey Flowers, Lions No edge defender graded higher than Miller (94.6) or recorded more pressures than Miller (640) from 2011 through 2019. 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. A lot rests on the shoulders of J.J. Watt, as the Cardinals let Jones leave this offseason and only really replaced him with developmental rookies in the middle rounds of the draft. Youngs 93.3 overall grade last season in that portion of the field led all players at the position. Benson Mayowa (Sea) Mayowa re-signed with Seattle on a two-year $8.8 million deal with $4.61 million guaranteed. Bosa is a top 2-3 run-defending edge in the league on top of being an elite pass rusher. The Jets havent paid big bucks for an edge rusher in double-digit years and are dishing out $30 million of guaranteed money to Lawson who was a situational player with the Bengals. The league will be so much better for their presence in 2021, although offensive tackles may not be fired up. He was legitimately dominant. Health and a suspension have been the only thing holding him back from being unanimously recognized as EDGE1. 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. I didnt intend for this to be the injury tier, but thats how the rankings worked out. . 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. 2021 Mentioning how he gets double-teamed an awful lot. My favorite part of this is just how flexible the DL is now. 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. I firmly believe that Watt was better than Garrett in 2020, and in my. 24. 20. And only Nolan Smith of Georgia (19.3) and UAB sleeper Alex Wright (18.7) had a better overall run disruption rate than . He was at his best in the red zone. 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. Expect Buffalo to continue to lean on him in 2021 while grooming recent draft picks such as A.J. I hate being this guy, but in the last week, now multiple PR writers (Mark Cook being the other one, I cant remember the piece) have misused the word infamy. When Gregory Rousseau opted out of the 2020 season, Miami's football team needed an answer to replace his production from the . Broncos EDGE Von Miller Photo by: Mark Lomoglio/PR. The potential is there for a formidable duo in Arizona, with Jones and Watt now joining forces as teammates. Brandon Graham, Eagles He now needs to show that wasnt a flash in the pan. He created 26 incompletions, fourth best among edge rushers, though he didn't match his peers in double-team effectiveness (five wins on 64 attempts, 7.8%). This is the advantage of Clowney. Edge rusher rankings for top 32 NFL EDGEs heading into 2022 led by Myles Garrett and T.J. Watt The NFL's top 32 edge rushers in 2022 come in all shapes and sizes, but they all have one thing in common: They can get after opposing QBs. Last year, he set career highs in total tackles (47), solos (28), assists (19), and sacks (8.5). I want to see AB dust off the Sashi playbook and trade back to get a million mid rounders. 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). It will be interesting to see how that translates to Tennessee. . "He's a load," an NFL veteran offensive . He's tallied a ridiculous 192 pressures in that span - recording at least 55 in each of those three campaigns - while hitting the opposing quarterback 77 times. A league-high 39 of his 142 pressures since 2018 were unblocked thats why he doesnt fall any higher on this list. By Sam Monson. Aaron Donald finished second in the NFL with 13.5 sacks, tied for second with 14 tackles for loss and fourth in QB hits this season, but his impact goes way beyond the box score. The league has responded to the increase in volume and production of the passing game with defenders who can affect the game with pressure. See trending Company Home About Shop Blog Search Money Trending Examples Data Voices Legal He didn't face many in 2021. Marketing by Visual Realm, Jon Ledyard is PewterReport.com's newest Bucs beat writer and has experience covering the Pittsburgh Steelers as a beat writer and analyzing the NFL Draft for several draft websites, including The Draft Network. He is trending in the opposite direction of fellow 2019 draftee Maxx Crosby, whose overall grade fell nearly eight points from his first to second season last year. Demarcus Lawrence remains one of the league's elite pass rushers, despite only playing seven games in the 2021 season. Aiden Hutchinson. The last time he played, back in 2019, was also the first season of his career in which he fell below a 90.0 PFF grade (79.3). (Y axis is overall PRWR, not just vs. double teams). 13, 14.5 and 15-sack seasons in a row represent rare production by Watt. He recorded just three sacks (T-104), eight QB hits (T-117) and four tackles for loss (T-160) in 14 games with the Falcons, having very little impact in Atlanta. 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. Yannick Ngakoue, Raiders Ted Bundy is infamous. Dude just euro stepping past tackles. His 4-sack run to a Super Bowl title will live in Bucs infamy. Over the last three years, Armsteads 88.5 run-defense grade is a top-10 mark among edge defenders. While there were no clear signs as to why his sack totals dropped off so much, he more than made up for this when he posted four sacks and eight QB hits in three playoff games and the Super Bowl combined. 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. Floyd could very well leave in free agency this offseason and sign a big-money deal elsewhere after earning $10 million for one year with the Rams, but he wont find a team with Donald in the middle of its defensive line. [Bleacher Report] Former NFL RB Peyton Hillis is no [Russini] The Cleveland Browns plan to hire Jim Schwartz Jacoby Brissett finished the season #8 overall in QBR Press J to jump to the feed. He rejoins his college coach from Temple Matt Rhule. I would rather see us move up / get extra 2nd and 3rd picks. No NFL edge rusher faced more double teams than Hutchinson did as a rookie, according to ESPN's pass rush win data. How the edge rusher position performs for the Ravens will be a key in how successful this team can be in 2021. In any given game or even season, though, Garrett is well capable of being better. 1 anymore, its still impossible to remove him from the elite tier. Dupree had eight sacks in 11 games last year and 11.5 sacks in 2019. TEAM SEASON GP RUSH YDS ATT YPC RUSH YDS/G RUSH TD REC YDS REC TRG AVG REC YDS/G REC TD; Chicago Bears: 2021: 54: 1,450: 369: 3.9: 26.9: 11: 504: 73: 91: 6.9: 9.3: 1: Arizona Cardinals: 2021: 52: Still, the idea of teaming him up with Chandler Jones has to have defensive coordinator Vance Joseph drooling over the possibilities in 2021. Fantasy Points: In a surprising move, the Seahawks re-signed Dunlap and released Jarran Reed. Garrett has NEVER had that happen for him. Whether or not he returns to clear form, teams have already been putting everything they have on Garrett for years. Von Miller, Broncos Plus, by request from @DaneBeavers, label colors indicate 2020 cap hit (red = high). ALL the latest 49ers news straight to your inbox! My bet is that by this time next year, hes a consensus second tier edge rusher. I dont think any defensive lineman in the league, with the exception of Aaron Donald, can impact the game like Myles Garrett. Sorry, Jaelan Phillips. The x-axis shows double team rate. 2 in PFF grade, with just one-tenth of a grading point separating them (91.9 for Garrett to 91.8 for Watt). Pittsburghs scheme is as much to play than their players. Dupree is coming off a torn ACL suffered in Week 12. Jared Fogel Subway was famous as the Subway guy, but is now INfamous for being a pedophile. Powered by. J.J. Watt (Ari) Watt signed a two-year deal worth $28 million with #23 million guaranteed. 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. Double team rate at edge (x) by pass rush win rate at edge (y), through Week 5. Barretts lack of elite athleticism probably always keeps him out of the top two tiers, but he knows hes still a more than adequate enough athlete to be productive one-on-one. 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. Parsons may not play as much as an edge rusher, but hes already shown hes an elite one if he does line up there. He wasnt as great in 2020, but his 2019 tape was flat out elite. 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. We could see him play more on the interior again in Arizona. Hes a well-rounded player who has grown technically in his pass rush game by leaps and bounds. His PFF run-defense grade was just 40.4 last season. 2021 NFL Draft: Top 10 edge rushers. The move to Green Bay has led to the best football of Smiths career. Myles has had some success, including his first career sack, when lining up inside. 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. No. But Young is already an elite run defender and he plays with a temperament beyond his years. Gets the QB hit but destroys multiple guys on the way. He needs to show he can get back to his league-leading pressure performance, this time in Minnesota. By Dalton Miller June 6, 2022 Jump around this article Click to show The Cowboys rookie edge rusher demonstrated Thor-like power in the first half of Dallas' deliver-on-Mike-McCarthy's-guarantee win in the nation's capital over the Washington Football Team, a. (98-73 and 69-31). He ranks in the 98th percentile in pass-rushing grade, pass-rush grade on true pass sets and pass-rush grade without play action. This week, PFF published their ranking of the 32 best edge rushers entering the 2021 NFL season. The four-year extension he signed with the team this offseason was well earned. And Young still got out to an 87.1 overall grade as a rookie, fifth in the NFL among qualifying edge defenders. Highly doubt you have ever seen a game this guy named Chase Young has played. Its important to remember that rankings like this are largely fluid year-to-year, especially when you get outside the first eight edge defenders. He also placed second in the NFL with 13.5 sacks. They rank first and third in pass-rush win rate, and no edge rusher has more sacks than Watt. Despite Donald's dominance this season across the defensive line, some fans and players alike believe that Pittsburgh Steelers edge rusher T.J. Watt was snubbed out of the award. When he is not delving into fantasy football, Thomas works as an instant or slow-motion replay technician for national and regional clients. Compare that chart to the one for defensive tackles and the difference is startling. "Garrett's pass-rush win rate of 26.3% last season ranked third among edge rushers despite facing 104 double teams. 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). 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. The evaluation process wouldnt be clean. Paul Kelly's Player Props: Wild Card Weekend, 2021 Positional Tracker: Defensive Linemen. Reddick posted 12.5 sacks while adding 61 total tackles in eleven starts last year. The double-team gauntlet is yet to slow down Nick Bosa of the San Francisco 49ers. Donald is in his own area in the upper-right corner, where no other defensive tackle resides. 7. However, a quick deep dive into the statistics clearly shows who the best edge rusher in the NFL has been in 2021. Clowney is second on the team despite only having 3.5 sacks. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. Over the past three seasons, Hughes' 19.8% pass-rush win rate ranks fifth among qualifiers at the position. A broken bone in his foot caused him to miss time, but upon returning he looked like the dominant rusher fans expected. Tom Simons. In addition to a worrisome injury history, he also faces a crowded position and likely starts training camp as a backup OLB. 2021 NFL Double Team Percentage By Edge Rusher | StatMuse 2021 NFL double team percentage by edge rusher Explore Who has the most career 5+ passing TD games? 4 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, Ferell has recorded just 6.5 sacks in 26 starts. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL player performance data. 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. The next way Clark could improve in 2021 is by simply winning more one-on-one snaps. His 79.4 pass-rushing grade in 2020 was a top-15 grade at the position. Now we turn to edge defenders. Although I think any discussion of the best edge defender in the NFL has to begin with Garrett and Watt, Joey Bosa has an argument too. 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