Who's the best pass rusher in the NFL

[Tabascocat]

Doing your best Gwyneth Paltrow from Sliding Doors there I see!

It's a valid point though!

See? Maybe Taco was a blessing!

 

[Scottishcowboy]

See? Maybe Taco was a blessing!

I keep thinking about the supermodel who stupidly brushed me off in an Edinburgh bar and I met my wife 1 week later.

Wait......hang on.......bad example.......gimme a minute.

 

[rags747]

All I know is we took Taco instead of Watt lol

All Marinelli!

 

[shabazz]

Watt is a game wrecker and singlehandedly won two games for the Squeelers

Hes the benchmark

 

[plasticman]

Best pass rusher?

The common method would be to use sacks as the main, and even only, criteria.

However. there are many other methods by which a pass rusher could benefit his team.

I took the list of all pass rushers with 4 or more sacks (59 players) and graded them on a point system:

Sacks 5
Solo tackles 1
Assist tackles 1/2
TFL 3
QB hits 2
Forced fumbles 5
Recovered fumbles 2
INT's 5

Here are the top ten:

Rank --- Player--- Points
1 T.J. Watt 167
2 Maxx Crosby 165
3 Danielle Hunter 156
4 Myles Garrett 141.5
5 Micah Parsons 138
6 Khalil Mack 127
7 Josh Allen 124.5
8 Montez Sweat 123
9 Carl Granderson 118.5
10 Trey Hendrickson 116.5

T.J. Watt with 9.5 sacks, 8 tackles for a loss, 18 QB hits, 3 forced fumbles, 2 recovered fumbles including 1 for a TD, 1 INT for a TD, 22 combined tackle, and 6 passes defended.

 

[The Natural]

Whoever doesn’t constantly duck the opposing team’s best tackle.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

All I know is we took Taco instead of Watt lol

and Mazi over ?
and Schoon Over?
and LVE over?

I see a trend.

 

[Motorola]

Food for thought:

If Dallas drafted Watt, would Parson have been drafted here?

I don’t see why not, we didn’t really draft Parsons as a rusher, even if we did, it would give us two beasts.

I meant it in a different sense. If Dallas had TJ instead of Taco, the season’s leading up to Micah might have gone differently. The draft picks in each round would probably be quite different. Just saying Parsons might not have been available.

The Cowboys drafted 12th in 2021 primarily because they lost their starting QB 5 games into the 2020 season, finishing 6 -10.
Would Watts on that historically bad Cowboys defense played a little better - helping get one maybe two more wins - keeping the team out of picking 12th the following year - and not in a position to pick Parsons?

 

[TwentyOne]

But Parsons is playing 2 positions..........

Crosby getting blocked by a TE .....
Celebrates himself like DFlaw does when he beats TEs.

 

[STREAK84]

I wonder how many pass rush opportunities Micah has had compared to those other guys.

 

[Zman5]

Garrett
Watt
Micah
Crosby

Garrett sucks!





Oh. Sorry. Wrong Garrett.

 

[EST_1986]

Presumably the Watt stuff as 28 years was only posted this year (because last year it was 27).

I call dibs on first to 29 years

 

[DuceizBak]

I think TJ Watt and Myles Garrett are in a tier of their own.
Nick Bosa/ Parsons/ Crosby a slight bit below that

 

[Mr_437]

Taco Charlton...I mean TJ Watt.

 

[HanD]

In addition to double team rate, Micah is number 1 in pass rush win rate. Closely followed by Myles Garrett and not close after those two.

 

[Chuck 54]

If i could chose any player....for just 1 season....it would be Myles Garrett

Agreed. I’d trade Parsons for him in a heartbeat. He’s a beast.

 

[Creeper]

Micah plays off ball more than any of these other guys. Garrett and Crosby line up as DE almost every play. Watt probably more than Micah.

Still Micah shows up among the leaders. And honestly, I think Micah is double teamed more than 30% of the time. I wonder if this includes plays where he is off ball or just when he lines up as an edge rusher.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Micah plays off ball more than any of these other guys. Garrett and Crosby line up as DE almost every play.

Exactly.....

 

[gimmesix]

All I know is we took Taco instead of Watt lol

And we took Trysten Hill (or Connor McGovern depending on how you want to look at it) instead of Crosby.

 

[Aftershock]

Right now its Maxx Crosby and it's not even close. Followed closely by Garrett and Watt, and then Parsons

The former 3 players I mentioned above have size on their side. Parsons is a bit under-sized to be a true 4-3 EDGE, I think he would greatly benefit from a 3-4 system like TJ Watt has.