Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. Hell be a guard at the next level, but in two games at tackle last season before tearing his Achilles, he didnt allow a pressure. 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. Epenesa is a physically dominant 6-foot-7, 280 pounds. 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. Mason Crosby drills a 58-yard FG to put the @packers up 10. Fox was almost as good in 2021. Robinson was reportedly ousted from West Virginia over the summer and still hasnt found a home for this upcoming fall. #RiseUpATL: #TBvsATL on FOX: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/EJLjYXQNy2 pic.twitter.com/Sr54Ge1iwX. His success in 2020 hinges on him returning to form as the strong coverage linebacker he was in 2017 and 2018, and there's reason to believe he can achieve that. He controls offensive linemen with ease snap after snap. 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). 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. Also featured are PFF's AWS-powered simulations and PFF-exclusive player grades. If you're expecting Littleton to come down and make a difference in the run game, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Thats right folks, this is a 60 yard punt (in the air) with a 5.15 second hang time. It doesn't take long, though, before you get to players who excel against the run or against the pass but not against both. Not even 250 pounds, hes one of the best bull-rushers in the country. PFF employs over 600 full or part-time analysts, but less than 10% of analysts are trained to the level that they can grade plays. The Patriots raised some eyebrows in 2019 when they decided to use the 163rd overall pick on a punter, but after three years, Bailey is now making them look like geniuses. Not only did he lead the NFL in the all-important net-punting average (45.6), but he also ranked fourth overall in yards per punt (48.7). He also comes downhill as a blitzer like hes shot out of a cannon. Touchbacks aren't ideal in the NFL because you'd rather pin your opponent inside their 20 rather than on their 20. Of course, all of these rankings were made using the unique data that can be found as a part of a PFF Elite subscription, and you can use promo code KICKOFF30 here to save 30% off your new PFF subscription today. Just cause a team sucks and they kick it every other drive doesn't make a punter good . Highest-Graded Player: RB Derrick Henry (92.4), Super Bowl Win Probability: 2% Quarterback 1. 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% The Class of 2019 kicker/punter hit 3 of his kickoffs over 67 with his best being a 68-yard kick with 3.64 seconds of hangtime. He has only two drops on 56 catchable in his career. Although his stats were slightly down in 2021, his track record suggests that he should bounce back big time in 2022. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. Johnson's 76.3 coverage grade ranked 10th among qualifiers at the position. 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. He, however, has only played 566 snaps in his career. He's also pinned the opponent inside their own five-yard line more times (15) than any other punter over that span. The only reason Fox isn't higher on this list is because he struggled with touchbacks. Anger had such a big season that Cowboys rewarded him a new three-year contract in March that's worth up to $9 million. In 2018, not only did the lead the league in punts inside the 20, but he was also the only full-time punter in the NFL who didn't kick a touchback. Since entering the league in 2012, Wagner's 92.1 PFF grade ranks second out of 103 qualifying linebackers, behind only Kuechly. The Raiders punter also dropped 43.8% of his punts inside the opponents 20-yard line, which was the sixth-best percentage in the NFL last season. Of his 51 punts, only one went for a touchback, which was the lowest number of any full-time punter. He's not as versatile as Cunningham in coverage, but he isn't a big negative there, either. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football 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 . His 83.6 coverage grade over the past two seasons is a top-10 mark at the position, while his 46.8 run-defense grade over that same time frame comes in as one of the worst marks among linebackers. His lack of bend, though, is worrisome at this point. Not only was he accurate, but he also showed off his range as he was one of just four kickers in the NFL who attempted four or more field goals from beyond 50 yards and made all of them. Kendricks was credited with 14 forced incompletions, which led all linebackers and came in at fifth among all defenders. . Oh, and his 90.3 overall grade led the way at the position. If there's one knock on Cole, it's that he regularly outkicked his coverage last season, which allowed opposing teams to average 12.2 yards per return against the Raiders, which was the second-worst number in the NFL. Kendricks is coming off the best season in his five-year NFL career. PFFs Fantasy Football Rankings include draft and current week ranks from our experts, projections, auction values, advanced stats and our Strength of Schedule metric. The rankings are based on PFF ELO Ratings. It's not difficult to get overshadowed by Wagner, but Wright is still one of the better linebackers in the league in his own right. Townsend was so good at placing his punts that returners only averaged four yards per return against the Chiefs last season, giving Kansas City one of the best coverage units in the NFL in 2021. Since entering the NFL in 2014, Way has slowly turned into one of the best punters in the league, especially over the past three years. When Fox's NFL career started back in 2019, it didn't actually look like he was going to have a career. Fine can get sloppy with his throwing motion and ball discipline in the pocket. Parkinsons has one of the largest catch radii in the country. To put that in perspective, there were only two other punters who even landed 30 kicks inside their opponents' 20-yard line. It will be interesting to see how he fares without the Hall of Fame-bound Kuechly in the middle of that defense. Despite that success, the Rams released Hekker in March and after that happened, the Panthers quickly snatched him up. Highest-Graded Player: QB Tom Brady (92.6), Super Bowl Win Probability: 4% Thanks to his booming leg, his punts also led to 28 fair-catches, which. He wasn't exactly a playmaker in coverage, with just one combined interception and pass breakup, but he was far from a liability. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. He made his first appearance in Week 5 against the Los Angeles Chargers and turned in a 91.9 PFF grade for the game a sign of things to come. The most noteworthy part of his game this past season was just how many plays he made on the football. This list will not include the likes of T.J. Watt, Khalil Mack or Von Miller all of whom ranked highly in the edge defender rankings that came out earlier this week. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. Of his 51 punts in 2021, only nine of them were returned, and his 17.6% return rate was by far the lowest return percentage for any full-time punter in the NFL last season. Cole's net yardage was almost as impressive as he ranked fifth in the NFL with a net average of 42.5 yards per punt. Things got off to a pretty good start as a rookie in 2018 with Smith putting up a 70.0-plus grade in coverage and a 66.6 grade overall, but both of those numbers dipped into the 50s this past season. To date, though, Cleveland has only been on the field for 569 snaps in his career. Coming into the NFL in the same 2012 draft class as Kuechly and Wagner has left David as the forgotten man at the position. Hes more likely to come down with jump down the field than the receiver hes guarding. Age, height, weight, and 40 times will be updated after the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine. Reagor isnt your typical 5-foot-11, 195-pound wideout. Perhaps with Kuechly out of the picture, this is the year that David gets his well-earned recognition. By the way, if you've heard Anger's name before, it's probably because you know him as the punter who got drafted ahead of Russell Wilson in 2012. His 72.6 coverage grade ranked 15th among 91 qualifying linebackers on the season. As a sophomore, Woodward was one of the most productive linebackers in the country. The Jaguars took Anger at 70th overall and then the Seahawks took Wilson just five picks later. They can win as run defenders, pass-rushers and coverage defenders. After booming his way to the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 2018, Dickson has somehow only gotten better. He's earned this top spot with strong, well-rounded play throughout his career. Of course, yards per punt isn't a great way to measure a punter's skill. 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. The Steelers will be counting on him to play a big role in 2020 because the depth behind Bush and Vince Williams at linebacker is unproven at best. See the punts statistics by player for the 2020 NFL season. Consistency will be key for Smith in 2020 as he looks to show why Chicago made him a top-10 pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. Coverage teams love when they see a fair catch, because it means less work for them. Hes one of the toughest receivers to jam at the line of scrimmage in the country. 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. The Panthers have put a lot of coverage responsibility on Thompson, and he's held up reasonably well through 546 coverage snaps in the slot since 2015 (nearly 100 more than the next closest linebacker). NFL Player Grades PFF analyzes every player and every play of every game in the 2022 NFL season. If you watched any Jaguars games in 2020, then you probably saw a lot of Cooke and that's because he was one of Jacksonville's busiest players. 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. Hes got 17 touchdowns over the past two seasons. In a loss to the Bills where the wind was crazy, Bailey had both the longest punt of his career (71 yards) and shortest punt of his career (15 yards). Kinlaw has a great combination of size (6-foot-6, 305 pounds) and athleticism when projecting to the NFL. Super Bowl Win Probability: 30% During the 2020 season, Way averaged a booming 48.0 yards per punt, which ranked fifth in the NFL and this came just one year after a 2019 season where he finished with the 10th-highest single-season average in NFL history (49.6). Davis comes from a track background, and it shows up on his tape. Cleveland is an enormous guard who pretty much never gets overpowered. In 2020, he only kicked three touchbacks making him one of just three punters who had three or less touchbacks on 60 or more punts. During his time with the Bills last season, Bojorquez had a 72-yard punt, which was tied for the longest in the NFL. 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. Hes not the most nimble athlete but has the length and balance you like to see at the position. Tucker also has the highest accuracy rate on extra points among active kickers (98.9%). PFF's Preseason 2020 NFL Draft Guide is LIVE. Edmunds has performed well in stretches, but he has yet to put it all together for an entire season. This ranking involves some projection for Bush because his 62.9 PFF grade as a rookie ranked 36th out of 91 qualifiers in 2019, but there is reason to believe he is primed for a significant second-year jump. He looks primed to take the next step in 2019. He rushes the passer with violence unrivaled in this class and has the highest pass-rushing grade of any returning edge. For as good as the Cowboys' linebacker duo of Leighton Vander Esch and Smith were in 2018, last season had to come as somewhat of a disappointment. He ended up punting the ball 88 times in 2021, which was the most of any punter in the league. His 17 catches through two seasons with five drops is his biggest concern now. From 2012 to 2016 Davis' first five seasons in the NFL his highest single-season PFF grade came at just 62.6 in 2014 with the New York Jets. Johnston was also able to force 22 fair catches with his punts, which was tied for the fifth-highest total in the league. He'll look to show that 2019 was no one-year fluke as a key part of the Broncos defense in 2020. Feb. 24, 2020 MILAN The landmark Duomo Cathedral, its spires towering over Milan, is closed. 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