EMMITTnROY
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so I was just thinking about how hard it is to force a fumble in this league.. numbers aren't that high for defensive players doing it.. but I knew that Roy does a fair share of it, so I decided to look up his numbers and compare them to other "big hitters".. Roy has got them all beat.. I didn't spend a lot of time or anything, but I looked up Ed Reed, Troy Polomalu, Sean Taylor, Brian Dawkins, John Lynch, Rodney Harrison, Adrian Wilson, Ray Lewis, Junior Seau, Zach Thomas, and Jonathan Vilma to try to get a good cross sampling of safeties and linebackers because those are the two positions with the "biggest" hitters.. Roy has a better per-year average of forced fumbles than all of them.. the only ones to even get close were Brian Dawkins and Sean Taylor.. it's pretty telling, because those are the guys most commonly ranked right under Roy as the best hitters in the league so it would make sense that those three would be the best at forcing fumbles..
Adam might have the numbers on this and would do a lot better job than I did.. I just looked it up really quick cause I was curious..
NOTE: I didn't look up defensive ends because that position naturally gets a lot more forced fumbles because they are hitting a quarterback who is MUCH more likely to fumble than a runningback or reciever would.. my research was to help find the "best" hitters and coming from someone's blindside and stripping a ball out of a guy's hand isn't the type of forced fumble I'm talking about here.. I'm talking about the ones where somebody has got to lay the wood to make that ball pop out..
Adam might have the numbers on this and would do a lot better job than I did.. I just looked it up really quick cause I was curious..
NOTE: I didn't look up defensive ends because that position naturally gets a lot more forced fumbles because they are hitting a quarterback who is MUCH more likely to fumble than a runningback or reciever would.. my research was to help find the "best" hitters and coming from someone's blindside and stripping a ball out of a guy's hand isn't the type of forced fumble I'm talking about here.. I'm talking about the ones where somebody has got to lay the wood to make that ball pop out..