Now 7-of-7 for 82 yards in his career after completing this fourth-and-9 pass for 15 yards on a fake punt against Washington #Ravens pic.twitter.com/HETaugUCwU. Tua already has accuracy, pocket presence and anticipation that is well beyond his years. Over the course of his career, the four-time Pro Bowler has averaged 46.7 yards per punt, which is the fifth-highest number in NFL history. Edmunds will have to clean up the missed tackles and improve in coverage to rise toward where most slot him currently a top-10 linebacker on this list next season. So are La Scala, Italy's premier opera house, and the city's universities and schools. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. 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). At this time last year, it was looking like Jack Fox might not even make it in the NFL, but then he won the punting job in Detroit and if he keeps kicking the way he's been kicking, he's likely going to have the job for a long time. Thats a great skill for a modern back. 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 above average in pretty much every aspect of the position you could ask for. Highest-Graded Player: Edge T.J. Watt (91.6), Super Bowl Win Probability: 3% Since his rookie year in 2012, Hekker has been an absolute weapon for the Rams and during the early part of his career with the team, he was arguably the only weapon. Highest-Graded Player: OG Wyatt Teller (92.9), Highest-Graded Player: OT Trent Williams (91.9), Highest-Graded Player: CB Xavien Howard (87.3), Highest-Graded Player: OT D.J. Kinlaw has a great combination of size (6-foot-6, 305 pounds) and athleticism when projecting to the NFL. Over the course of his career, he's made 90.7% of his kicks, which makes him the most accurate kicker in NFL history. He picked up overall grades of 65.0 or higher in each of the first eight seasons of his career, but that streak came to an end this past season. Despite that success, the Rams released Hekker in March and after that happened, the Panthers quickly snatched him up. Young checks pretty much every single box you could ask for and is only a rising true junior. Highest-Graded Player: Edge Khalil Mack (92.3), Super Bowl Win Probability: <1% Hes capable of playing in a Derwin James-Jamal Adams role, but weve yet to see him really dominate in any of those facets. Check out the 2020 Cincinnati Bengals Roster, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees, Injury Reports and more on Pro-Football-Reference.com. Of course, yards per punt isn't a great way to measure a punter's skill. Butker was a huge weapon for the Chiefs in 2020 and he showed just how clutch he can be early in the season when he hit a 58-yard game-winning field goal against the Chargers that still stands as the second-longest overtime field goal in NFL history. Okwuegbunam has speed to get up the seams and body control to be a red-zone threat. 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. 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. Vander Esch turned in a terrific rookie season in 2018 he graded out as one of the top five linebackers in the NFL, with an 85.4 overall grade but he wasn't able to build on that this past season thanks to a neck injury that limited him to just six healthy games at the start of the year. Dallas will be hoping both Smith and Vander Esch get back to 2018 form next season. Just missed: Sam Martin (Broncos), Thomas Morstead (Dolphins), Brett Kern (Titans). [Editor's note: PFF's Preseason 2020 NFL Draft Guide is LIVE and features 150 Two-Page Player Profiles, giving you advanced stats, game grades and much, much more. 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. Adebo has ball skills like that of a wide receiver. Although his stats were slightly down in 2021, his track record suggests that he should bounce back big time in 2022. Nov 22, . There's a reason Kern has been to three Pro Bowls in his career and that's because he's consistently been one of the best punters in the NFL over the course of his 13-year career. We're in the heart of rankings season here at PFF. Highest-Graded Player: QB Russell Wilson (90.3), Super Bowl Win Probability: 2% When you're punting that often, there's always a chance that you could mess up or your leg could fall off, but neither of those things happened to Johnston. Johnston was one of the few bright spots for the Texans last season. 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. Wright has been one of the most reliable linebackers in the NFL since entering the league as a fourth-round pick out of Mississippi State in 2011. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL player performance data. His 80.4 coverage grade across those the 2017 and 2018 campaigns ranked ninth among 59 linebackers who saw 500 or more coverage snaps, coming alongside solid play against the run. That may have to be the case again with three new (young) starters at cornerback. It's not often that you talk about a kicker being a lock for the Hall of Fame, but Justin Tucker is getting close to being in that category after nine NFL seasons. His 15 contested catches are top-10 among returning wideouts. 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). He's earned this top spot with strong, well-rounded play throughout his career. In the run game, Thompson uses his quickness to be effective despite being on the smaller end for a linebacker. Cunningham is perhaps most well known for how he uses his length to impact the passing game in coverage, but he's starting to become one of the league's better run defenders at the position. 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). 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. Swift is pretty clearly the top receiving threat in the class. . After a solid rookie year in 2019, Bailey followed that up in 2020 with an All-Pro season. During the 2021 season, Anger had a net average of 44.6 yard per punt, which led the NFL. He'll look to show that 2019 was no one-year fluke as a key part of the Broncos defense in 2020. 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. Huge. When you look at his resume, the fact that his last Pro Bowl appearance came in 2015 is astounding. Week SB Rankings PPR .5 PPR Non-PPR IDP 2022 Draft Rankings PPR .5 PPR 2 QB PPR Non-PPR IDP Best Ball Dynasty Startup Dynasty Rookie Dynasty IDP Startup Dynasty IDP Rookie Moses is still a work in progress one-on-one in coverage, but he can play in space as well as any linebacker in the country. Koo finished the year with 144 points scored, which was tied with Daniel Carlson and Jason Sanders for the most in the NFL. Reagor isnt your typical 5-foot-11, 195-pound wideout. Highest-Graded Player: RB Derrick Henry (92.4), Super Bowl Win Probability: 2% The Patriots punter regularly got off booming punts, which includes the 60-yarder you see below. He makes some throws down the field that only a handful of guys in the NFL could make. If Jeudy could have come out in the 2019 draft, hed likely have been a top-five pick already. Anger forced 24 fair catches last season, which was tied for the fourth-highest total in the NFL. Gay can absolutely fly sideline to sideline. Since entering the league in 2012, Wagner's 92.1 PFF grade ranks second out of 103 qualifying linebackers, behind only Kuechly. Just cause a team sucks and they kick it every other drive doesn't make a punter good . During that 21-6 win, Anger pinned the Giants inside their own 10-YARD LINE a total of four times with kicks that were downed at the 9-, 8-, 8- and 7-yard line. Hes got an ideal guard build with power throughout his frame. Warner's PFF grade this past season was brought down by a 46.8 run-defense grade and over 20 missed tackles, but he was better in both areas as a rookie in 2018 and is developing into one of the better coverage linebackers in the NFL. Having a former special teams coordinator as your head coach might add pressure for some people, but not for Koch, who seems to share a brain with John Harbaugh. Now, if he can just fix his drop problem that saw him muff 10 a season ago. For that reason, we're only looking at off-ball linebackers here, whether that be outside or inside. Carlson scored 144 points in 2020, which was tied for the most in the NFL. During his time with the Bills last season, Bojorquez had a 72-yard punt, which was tied for the longest in the NFL. 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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. His lack of bend, though, is worrisome at this point. The pass game reigns king in today's NFL, so that kind of skill set is the most valuable to a defense. His body control at the catch point is also elite as he makes difficult catches look commonplace. Bryant has been one of the most productive tight ends in the country over the past couple of seasons, but hes still very undersized for the position and has been schemed a lot of production in FAUs offense. 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). Over the past three years, no punter has placedmore balls inside the 10-yard line than Dickson, who has done it 41 times since 2018. Thanks to his booming leg, his punts also led to 28 fair-catches, which was the second most that any punter in the NFL forced last season. When you look at his career, Lutz has been consistently good. 2022 NFL Punting Statistics | The Football Database 2022 NFL Punting Statistics The following are the 2022 NFL Punting statistical leaders, sorted by gross punting average. The Jags punter ranked sixth in the league in both yards per punt (47.7) and net yards per punt (43.2). 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. 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. FAKE PUNT #SEAHAWKS EXECUTE THE FAKE!!!! Hes broken 18 tackles on 94 career catches. No linebacker who has seen at least 50 targets in coverage since 2018 has allowed a lower yards-per-target mark than Brown's 5.6. Look at him SELL THAT FAKE PUNT. The Jags punter ranked second in the league in net yard per punt (43.6) and seventh in net yards per punt (47.3). Littleton does do two things at an elite level, though cover and tackle. The linebacker position has been somewhat diminished in recent seasons as nickel and dime defenses have become base, but there is still a group of guys at the top that you want on the field every play as a defense. Only one punter was voted a first-team All-Pro in 2021 and that punter was A.J. Also, it's worth keeping in mind that unlike other players, most punters are also asked to play at least one other position that have nothing to do with punting (Kickoff specialist or holder). . He's consistently one of the better tackling linebackers in the league missing just 6% of his tackles over the past five seasons and he's been about as steady as they come in run defense with run-defense grades between 68.4 and 78.3 in all eight of his NFL seasons. That 7.3 return number was the lowest in the league for any team that had to cover 30 or more punt returns. 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. 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. No one was really clear about it, so I'm just going to assume this is a classic "save the best for last" scenario. He brings athleticism, speed and playmaking ability to the linebacker position that Pittsburgh has missed since Ryan Shazier's injury. 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 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. 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. Hes damn near unblockable one-on-one in the run game but has yet to earn a pass-rushing grade above 70.0 for a season. Hes more likely to come down with jump down the field than the receiver hes guarding. He wasn't exactly a playmaker in coverage, with just one combined interception and pass breakup, but he was far from a liability. In 2021, Hekker had a net average of 42.6 yards per punt, which ranked fourth in the NFL. One thing Bailey did well was flip the field. The following are the 2020 NFL Punting statistical leaders, sorted by gross punting average. The Jaguars took Anger at 70th overall and then the Seahawks took Wilson just five picks later. Harris has all the skills to excel in a zone scheme in the NFL. Of his 51 punts, only one went for a touchback, which was the lowest number of any full-time punter. Fox has a booming leg and his ability to flip the field has made him a huge asset in Detroit. At one point during the season, Bailey had a 71-yard punt, which was the third longest that anyone kicked in the NFL all season. The 36-year-old kicker went a perfect 16 of 16 on field goals, making him one of just five kickers in NFL history to hit 100% of their field goals in a season where they attempted 15 or more kicks. He broke up eight passes after breaking up just 12 in his previous seven NFL seasons combined. 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