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In Ingram's first four seasons, the consistency in his burst metric ranked in the top 10 percent among edge rushers. Anyhow, in the games Ingram has played in over the past two seasons, his burst has ranked as high as fourth-fastest among edge rushers, but it hasn't been a consistent figure, which suggests the injuries have indeed been a factor. Not first 3 yards forward, but total yards traveled - an NFL head coach asked me to clarify this, so it's a point well taken. One measurement I like to study with pass rushers is burst, which is the speed someone is able to reach in the first 3 yards traveled.

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While Ingram has missed a dozen games over the past two season - likely the biggest cause of him still being a free agent - he didn't miss a single start from 2015 through '18. While some of that was due to strategic decision-making, it was still uncharacteristic of a Steve Spagnuolo defense - and definitely not a high-probability method for stopping opposing passers. The site has also recently released a list of the players they consider the league’s best interior offensive linemen - and not a single Chiefs player made the top 25.Last season, Kansas City pressured opposing quarterbacks on just 23.3 percent of dropbacks (23rd in NFL, per Next Gen Stats). That is not to say that PFF thinks it’s all sunshine and roses along the Chiefs offensive line. While in the eyes of some, Fisher may not have lived up to his billing as the first player selected in the 2013 NFL draft, he’s still been a solid player throughout his Chiefs career - and his disappointing 2019 will now be followed by a contract year.Īs Treash notes, Schwartz has never received the recognition he has likely deserved during his career in Cleveland and Kansas City, but the data Treash has highlighted here certainly makes a strong argument that Schwartz should be considered the league’s best offensive tackle. Great teams need a pair of bookend tackles on their offensive line - and there’s no doubt that the Chiefs have exactly that in Schwartz and Fisher. He showed that in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl run by earning a postseason PFF grade of 80.5. That said, he’s poised for a bounce-back year with a clean bill of health.

He battled an injury that took him out in Week 2 once he made his return in Week 11, he had the worst single game of his career ( 29.5 PFF grade). And then.įisher might have been a Super Bowl champion last year, but it was the worst season of his career in regard to PFF WAR. Ryan Ramczyk of the New Orleans Saints, David Bakhtiari of the Green Bay Packers, Ronnie Stanley of the Baltimore Ravens and Terron Armstead of the New Orleans Saints rounded out the top five offensive tackles. Only six other tackles in the PFF era (since 2006) have had back-to-back seasons in the top three of WAR at the position. Schwartz has ranked in the top three in PFF WAR in each of the past two years. The past two years, specifically, are the key reason why he ranks atop this list.

Schwartz has earned an above-average pass-blocking grade in every single season of his career, with his worst mark being 73.8 in his 2012 rookie campaign - which still ranked 35th among 76 qualifying tackles. He’s been durable throughout his eight-year career, logging over 1,000 snaps in every season and providing consistency in pass protection. And for that reason, Schwartz rings in at the top spot in our eyes. While Schwartz wasn’t named a top-10 offensive tackle by coaches, executives and his peers across the NFL, numbers never lie. PFF’s Anthony Treash wrote up the league’s top offensive tackles - and this time, Kansas City Chiefs fans have no argument with his top player.ġ.

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As the calendar winds down to the start of the 2020 NFL season, football analytics site Pro Football Focus has been releasing rankings of the NFL players they consider to be the best at their position.

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