If he returns in 2020 and puts up a similar effort, he should find himself comfortably in the top 10 of this list at this time next year. There have been two versions of Jamie Collins over his seven-year career the New England Patriots player who looked like one of the best linebackers in the NFL and the Cleveland Browns player who looked far removed from that status. . Wil Lutz wins it in OT for the @Saints! So are La Scala, Italy's premier opera house, and the city's universities and schools. Thanks to his booming leg, his punts also led to 28 fair-catches, which. Some players get worse as they get older, but not Crosby, who had a career year in 2020. One other reason Boswell is ranked so high is because he holds the NFL postseason record for most field goals without a miss (16 for 16). He is coming off a down year by his standards, but even then, his 76.4 PFF grade ranked 11th at the position. No one's more clutch than Tucker and he proved that last season when he hit a 55-yarder as time expired to beat the Browns in a wild Monday night game played in Week 14. Listed at 6-foot-4, Wright is a longer linebacker who can cause problems in coverage for opposing offenses in Seattle's zone defense. 2023 NFL Enterprises LLC. Tega Wanogho has made incredible strides over his college career after never having played offensive line before coming to Auburn. That 7.3 return number was the lowest in the league for any team that had to cover 30 or more punt returns. Anger might not have been the most important player on the Cowboys roster last season, but he was definitely the most consistent. Covering receivers who are that talented one-on-one is a tough ask for any linebacker. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL player performance data. You name it, Young has it. Iowa punter Tory Taylor is the reigning Big Ten Punter of the Year, an impressive accomplishment for his first year as a Hawkeye and his first year as an American punter. Fox has a booming leg and his ability. Like Milano, Schobert is going to produce more against the pass than he is against the run. The following are the 2020 NFL Punting statistical leaders, sorted by gross punting average. Highest-Graded Player: Edge Chase Young (87.2), Highest-Graded Player: OT Taylor Moton (81.2), Highest-Graded Player: WR Justin Jefferson (90.4), Highest-Graded Player: OG Zack Martin (91.3), Highest-Graded Player: OT Garett Bolles (90.3), Highest-Graded Player: DI Leonard Williams (79.8), Highest-Graded Player: Edge Joey Bosa (90.2), Highest-Graded Player: S Jessie Bates III (90.1), Highest-Graded Player: QB Deshaun Watson (92.5), Highest-Graded Player: Edge Brandon Graham (81.5), Highest-Graded Player: S Marcus Maye (82.8), Highest-Graded Player: QB Matt Stafford (82.0), Highest-Graded Player: C Brandon Linder (80.0). A large part of that grade was that Greenlaw simply didn't allow big plays on his watch. Bryan Anger's punt hit the jumbotron : #SFvsDAL on CBS/NICK/Prime Video: NFL app pic.twitter.com/v6QcauOWfx. Greenlaw's play as a rookie came as a pleasant surprise for San Francisco, particularly with him needing to take on a larger role as Kwon Alexander missed time due to injury. Dallas will be hoping both Smith and Vander Esch get back to 2018 form next season. Punting is an art form, so let's find out who the best artists are. Size, length, athleticism and production. Kern also showed off that control by only allowing 13 of his punts to be returned for yardage, which was the second-lowest number in the NFL behind only Jake Bailey. Not to be forgotten, Koch also might be the most efficient passer in NFL history. Whenever there's a conversation about the best punters in the NFL, Johnny Hekker's name almost always comes up, which makes sense, because he's one of the best punters in the NFL. The Jags punter ranked second in the league in net yard per punt (43.6) and seventh in net yards per punt (47.3). The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge (v80 and later), Firefox and Safari. 2023 NFL Enterprises LLC. The most noteworthy part of his game this past season was just how many plays he made on the football. . If you watched any Jaguars games in 2021, then you probably saw a lot of Cooke and that's because he was one of Jacksonville's busiest players. Young checks pretty much every single box you could ask for and is only a rising true junior. He wasn't exactly a playmaker in coverage, with just one combined interception and pass breakup, but he was far from a liability. Hes got 17 touchdowns over the past two seasons. Age, height, weight, and 40 times will be updated after the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine. Anger forced 24 fair catches last season, which was tied for the fourth-highest total in the NFL. pic.twitter.com/lPan593VO1. PFF's exclusive metrics provide matchup previews, position rankings, grades, and snap counts. He still sticks out as a guy who can contribute wherever you need him to defensively, and he has put any doubts about the knee injury that dropped him in the draft behind him. Thats right folks, this is a 60 yard punt (in the air) with a 5.15 second hang time. PFF's Preseason 2020 NFL Draft Guide is LIVE. Bush's overall grade jumped to 69.3 over the Steelers' final eight games 23rd among 85 linebackers to play 150 or more snaps over that time frame. The Kansas City Chiefs and the New Orleans Saints finish PFF's NFL Power Rankings for the 2020 NFL season as the top-ranked reams. When a punter is pinning teams deep, he'll sometimes have to give up some of his strength for finesse, but not Dickson, who was regularly booming punts in Seattle. Dickerson became a household name and his Jheri Curls and goggles made him recognizable outside of the helmet. He has the combination of awareness in the middle of the field to read plays in zone and the athleticism to react and be in position to make plays that all great coverage linebackers need. Thats the type of rare prospect he is despite not fitting the prototype size-wise (6-foot-1, 192 pounds). Trevathan is another player coming off a career-low overall grade in 2019 (61.9), but his track record gives him the benefit of the doubt and keeps him as one of the top 25 linebackers in the NFL heading into the 2020 season. In the end, the Steelers decided to keep their kicker and the gamble definitely paid off because Boswell has been one of the best kickers in the NFL over the past two years. PFFs Fantasy Football Rankings include draft and current week ranks from our experts, projections, auction values, advanced stats and our Strength of Schedule metric. PFF Rankings: The NFL's top 25 linebackers ahead of the 2020 NFL season By Ben Linsey Aug 25, 2020 We're in the heart of rankings season here at PFF. Now that Kuechly has retired, it's Wagner's crown to take. If he gets back to that level as a run defender in the middle of Jacksonville's defense and maintains his play in coverage, he'll push himself closer to the top tier of NFL linebackers. Lamb is incredibly advanced as a route-runner. Dante Bonamico (178 through 10) was the only one on pace to do so. The Jags punter ranked sixth in the league in both yards per punt (47.7) and net yards per punt (43.2). Of course, he also shined some areas and one of those areas was pinning the opponent inside their 20. Davis comes from a track background, and it shows up on his tape. Thats a great skill for a modern back. His bad play down the stretch gets a tad overblown because it came on the biggest stage, but wed still like to see those issues not show up in 2019. Despite that success, the Rams released Hekker in March and after that happened, the Panthers quickly snatched him up. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Arizona Cardinals . For one, he kicked seven touchbacks, which was tied for the second-most in the NFL. Leonard is also a sure tackler, having missed just 5.6% of his tackles over the past two seasons (seventh-best at linebacker). The pass game reigns king in today's NFL, so that kind of skill set is the most valuable to a defense. OGrady has some off-field issues and may be sidelined for the early part of 2019 with an injury, but hes a complete receiver when on the field. The 2020 NFL season is now less than a week away, so what better way to prepare for Thursday night's kickoff than to acquaint yourself with every one of PFF's player and team rankings. Gay can absolutely fly sideline to sideline. Over the past two seasons, Littleton has a PFF coverage grade of 90.6 and has missed just nine of his 254 tackling opportunities. AUTOMATIC. Highest-Graded Player: DI Aaron Donald (94.5), Super Bowl Win Probability: 3% 1 and then go from there (Although Tucker's grip on the top spot isn't as firm as it used to be). His career conversion rate is under 90%, which is why he's not higher on this list. Punting - Kolton McGhee - 61.4 No one hit the 200 Snap Club, which is to be expected since the season was shorted by three games. Humphries (88.3), Highest-Graded Player: OG Shaq Mason (85.4), Highest-Graded Player: WR Julio Jones (86.3), Highest-Graded Player: TE Darren Waller (86.4), Super Bowl Win Probability: 1% It's a number that highlights both his ability to limit the big play and his ability to make plays on the ball when the opportunity presents itself. Touchbacks aren't ideal in the NFL because you'd rather pin your opponent inside their 20 rather than on their 20. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL and NCAA player performance data. Hes already one of the best pass protectors in college football. It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience. Having just turned 22 years old in May, this upcoming season could very well be the one where he does just that. May 16, 2020 1:01 PM EDT. To join our email list and get notified when we launch the 2023-24 NFL section (probably late May), register for a free account . Jack's 2019 season was not what Jaguars' fans were expecting, and you can say that for a lot of Jacksonville's defense. And today, it's time for the linebackers. He also comes downhill as a blitzer like hes shot out of a cannon. His body control at the catch point is also elite as he makes difficult catches look commonplace. While many point to the San Francisco pass rush as the catalyst for their defensive revival in 2019, we shouldn't overlook how good their coverage was as a team. Though their position may be listed as outside linebacker, they don't play close to the same position as someone like Lavonte David. It's not easy punting in New England and it's not easy punting for a perfectionist like Bill Belichick, but Bailey made both of those things look easy during a 2020 season where he was voted to the Pro Bowl and named the first-team All-Pro punter. The Bills decided to let Bojorquez walk in free agency despite a 2020 season where he led the NFL in yards per punt with a number (50.8) that ranked as the fourth-highest of all-time. The last three years have yielded different results, however. Bailey was also probably pretty loved by the Patriots punt coverage team and that's because only 12 of his 51 punts got returned, which was the fewest returns given up by a punter last year. Carlson scored 144 points in 2020, which was tied for the most in the NFL. In four seasons with the Chiefs, Butker has hit 90.3 percent of his field goals (121 of 134), which makes him the second-most accurate kicker in NFL history and the only guy he's behind is the guy who's ranked ahead of him on this list. #RiseUpATL: #TBvsATL on FOX: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/EJLjYXQNy2 pic.twitter.com/Sr54Ge1iwX. Note: Free agent punters weren't considered for this list since there's no guarantee they'll be playing in the NFL this year. CLUTCH.Daniel Carlson hits the 54-yard FG to put the @Raiders ahead by 10. #NOvsCHI #Saints pic.twitter.com/6PfrBXEU3W. For one, he was one of only two kickers to hit 100% of his extra points last season (Matt Gay was the other one). #OnePride: #DETvsATL on FOX: NFL app pic.twitter.com/i6bmR7DyBp. Stanford also led the Pac-12 and ranked 10th nationally in kickoff coverage, allowing just 18.2 yards/return during the 2013 season. Fulton graded better than his teammate Greedy Williams on the LSU defense last season. If you watched Washington play last season, you may have noticed that they had one of the worst offenses in the NFL and because of that, Tress Way ended up punting the ball 73 times in 2020, which was the most of any punter in the league. He ended up punting the ball 88 times in 2021, which was the most of any punter in the league. During his time with the Bills last season, Bojorquez had a 72-yard punt, which was tied for the longest in the NFL. After struggling during a 2019 season where he hit just 76.7% of his field goals, Sanders bounced back in 2020 and finished the year as one of the NFL's best kickers. He was also a first-team All-American according to Sporting News, and holds the NCAA career record for punting yards . Alamar steered Stanford's 2013 special teams to a trio of top 40 NCAA rankings, including net punting (33rd - 38.49 yards/punt), punt returns (21st - 11.96 yards/return) and kickoff returns (39th - 23.09). Adebo has ball skills like that of a wide receiver. JUSTIN TUCKER. Like several players later on this list, Smith is someone who we know has the tools to be a top-flight NFL linebacker. As he enters the 2020 campaign at 31 years old, there's a chance his play could be on the decline, but it's too early to say that's the case at this point. After booming his way to the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 2018, Dickson has somehow only gotten better. Robinson packs a punch as a pass-rusher. Hes one of the best at collapsing the pocket in the country and physically manhandled OTs. Over the past few weeks here at CBSSports.com, we've been putting out our annual top-10 ranking for each position group in the NFL. PFFs expert rankers can include their opinions on a players season long fantasy prospects, which can consider more extreme outcomes and a certain amount of subjectivity. coming off the best season in his five-year NFL career, missed just nine of his 254 tackling opportunities, piece highlighting players entering prove-it years in 2020. Highest-Graded Player: TE Mark Andrews (81.7), Super Bowl Win Probability: 8% NFL footage NFL Productions LLC. That comes down largely to the ability he has shown in coverage. Enjoy! He broke up eight passes after breaking up just 12 in his previous seven NFL seasons combined. Korsak was the 2022 Ray Guy Award winner given to the nation's best punter. The only reason Fox isn't higher on this list is because he struggled with touchbacks. Although the Pro Football Hall of Fame has only inducted two true kickers -- Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen -- in its 58-year existence, Tucker is making a strong case for being the third (or fourth, if Adam Vinatieri gets in), so needless to say, he's at the top of our best kicker list. Since his rookie year in 2012, Hekker has been an absolute weapon and during the early part of his career (2012-16), he was arguably the only weapon (This was back when he played for the Rams while they were still in St. Louis). Although Lutz struggled a little bit last year, he has a long track record of success in the NFL, which is why he made the top-10 even though he ranked just 21st in overall accuracy last season. No matter what you ask Wagner to do, he does it at a high level, with 90.0-plus run-defense, pass-rush and coverage grades over the course of his career. Hes already adept at eating double teams and has a toolbox of pass-rushing moves that is on par with any other defensive tackle in the country. The Rank value requires a minimum number of snaps played. For years, the question at the top of the linebacker position has been a straightforward one: Who is the best linebacker in the NFL Luke Kuechly or Wagner? It's not hard to see why he's referred to as The Maniac when you watch him flying around the field and making plays. Although punting seems simple -- you just catch the ball and kick it -- it's not that easy, and because of that, trying to rank the top 10 punters in the NFL also isn't easy. Vander Esch has said this offseason that the injury is behind him and that he's better now than he was before the injury last season, and if taken at his word, that's great news for Dallas. Hes one of the best centers in college football in space. He comes in as the second most valuable linebacker, per PFF WAR, over that eight-year stretch, as well. He has only two drops on 56 catchable in his career. At one point during the season, Crosby hit a 57-yarder, which was the 10th longest field goal that any kicker made all year (The clip below says the kick was 58, but it was actually 57). Hes broken 18 tackles on 94 career catches. The Raiders like Carlson so much that they gave the restricted free agent a second-round tender, which is a high tender for a kicker (The tender means a team would have had to give the Raiders a second-round pick to steal Carlson away this offseason). 9:24 am ET, signed Cole to a four-year, $12.4 million extension, more balls inside the 10-yard line than Dickson, Agent's Take: Rodgers' trade value, logistics, best fit, McCarthy discusses taking over Cowboys' play-calling, Brett Favre welfare funds scandal explained, Reich says Carr 'checks a lot of boxes' after meeting, Mock: Carter falls amid warrant, Ravens take QB, Rodgers' trade value, logistics and best fit, Best team fits for top FAs at each position, Ex-NFL GM on ramifications of Carter's legal issue, NFLPA issues team report cards: Commanders fail, 49ers GM says he contacted Brady as team seeks QB help, Jalen Carter issues statement amid charges. The Ravens coach hates giving up touchbacks and there was no one better at avoiding touchbacks last year than Koch. Not only did Koo make more field goals (37) than any other kicker in 2020, but he also finished with the sixth-highest accuracy rate (94.9%). Milano still has work to do to improve as a run defender and tackler, but that kind of coverage ability is valuable and rare among linebackers. Epenesa is a physically dominant 6-foot-7, 280 pounds. At least, I think that's why we saved this one for last. Townsend had just 37 punts in 2021, which didn't meet the minimum requirement to be listed on the NFL's leader board for best punting average, but if he had been there, he would have ranked second in the league. Hekker averaged just 39.2 net yards per punt, which ranked an ugly 24th in the NFL. Although Kern missed three games due to injury last year, he was still quite the weapon when he was on the field. Although Hekker wasn't the best punter in 2020, he arguably had the best single-game of any punter last year. Johnson was on precisely no one's radar heading into last season. Tua already has accuracy, pocket presence and anticipation that is well beyond his years. For one, he averaged 50 yards per punt, which is the eight-highest single-season total in NFL history. Just missed: Sam Martin (Broncos), Thomas Morstead (Dolphins), Brett Kern (Titans). #RaiderNation: #NOvsLV on ESPN: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/pkp7nq0Q8u pic.twitter.com/cW3CGZDfgU. NFL 2022 Regular Season Punting Entire League 25 FAKE PUNT #SEAHAWKS EXECUTE THE FAKE!!!! Hall has incredible ball skills that saw him be the top graded returning corner in the country last year. Okudah has pretty much only shown out as a man corner at this point, but thats where youd like to see corners win. McKinney comes in one spot below his teammate Cunningham on the list, profiling more as a traditional run-stopper at nearly 260 pounds. 4. Team Stats and Rankings Table; Tot Yds & TO Passing Rushing Penalties Average Drive; Player PF Yds Ply Y/P TO FL 1stD Cmp Att Yds TD Int NY/A 1stD Att Yds TD Y/A . In 2021, Hekker had a net average of 42.6 yards per punt, which ranked fourth in the NFL. Bojorquez also had a net punting average of 44.0 yards, which ranked fifth in the NFL. Versatility wont be his strong suit, though, as he was a different player in the box. It may be a surprise to see Milano come in above his teammate 2019 Pro Bowl linebacker Tremaine Edmunds on this list, but the coverage ability he has shown over the past two seasons is hard to ignore. Only one punter was voted a first-team All-Pro in 2021 and that punter was A.J. The transfer graded out as a 4.5-star kicking prospect who could double as a back-up punter with continued work in the punt game. Following that impressive 2020 season, Bailey made it all the way up to third in our ranking last year, but he's now down to seventh after struggling through most of the 2021 season. Koch has been in Baltimore since 2006 and a big reason he's lasted so long is because he's one of the most consistent punters in the league. It's not easy punting in New England and it's not easy punting for a perfectionist like Bill Belichick, but Bailey has managed to make things work for three seasons. No one was really clear about it, so I'm just going to assume this is a classic "save the best for last" scenario. While he only played center in his lone year starting at Oklahoma, Humphrey has all the skills to play any interior position at the next level. Cunningham played more man-coverage snaps than any other linebacker last season (239), and players like Alvin Kamara, Christian McCaffrey and Mark Andrews were able to produce several big plays against Cunningham in man coverage. That being said, even Hekker would probably admit that 2020 wasn't his best year, which is why he's so low on the list. In the run game, Thompson uses his quickness to be effective despite being on the smaller end for a linebacker. Brown is not a player who comes up all that often when discussing the league's best linebackers, but he deserves a spot in the conversation. His 47 run stops in 2019 were nine more than the second-place Kuechly at linebacker, driving a career-high run-defense grade of 84.8. Not only was he the NFC's Pro Bowl punter last year, but he was also named second-team All-Pro. He'll continue to man the position with teammate Rashaan Evans heading into next season. Coverage teams love when they see a fair catch, because it means less work for them. In 2019, Way finished with the 11th-highest single-season average in NFL history (49.6). In 2020, the Colts . Here you'll find everything from our NFL quarterback rankings to our position rankings to our all-32 team roster rankings, making it easy for you to enter the 2020 NFL season armed with everything you need to know. He looks primed to take the next step in 2019. Punter is easily one of the most thankless positions in the NFL. 2022 ALL-PAC-12 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: AP/ST Daiyan Henley, R-Sr., Washington State,.The Los Angeles native owns five double-digit tackle games this season including game-highs of 11 at No. Henderson locked down his side of the field last year as well as any corner in the country. 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, at He also averaged 44.4 net yards per punt, which ranked third in the league. Pro Football Focus graded former West Virginia Mountaineers and Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee as NFL's highest-graded punter of the decade at 95.3, nearly three . Almost every punter in the NFL is asked to do their jobs differently: Some are asked to kick it out of bounds, some are asked to keep the ball near the sideline without putting it out of bounds, some are asked to boot the ball as far as they can while others are asked to shoot for a big hang time so that the returner will be forced into a fair catch. That impressive average came just one year after a 2020 season where he also finished fifth in the league with an average of 48 yards per punt. Subscribe to PFF+ to unlock Sign Up NFL NFL Home Tools NFL Scores NFL Premium Stats Butker actually hit two different 58-yard field goals in that game, making him one of only two kickers in NFL history to hit multiple kicks from 58 yards or longer in a game. Parkinsons has one of the largest catch radii in the country. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nfl | pageType: stories |
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