pff punter rankings 2020
His career conversion rate is under 90%, which is why he's not higher on this list. Dickson seems to have perfected the art of pinning a punt inside the 20-yard line because he did it 32 times last season, which was the most in the NFL. In the run game, Thompson uses his quickness to be effective despite being on the smaller end for a linebacker. While his overall grade had hovered in the 60s from 2016 to 2018, it came in at 90.1 in 2019 (second at the position). Way also made things easy on his punt coverage team as 25 of his punts went for a fair-catch, which was the third highest total in the NFL. He has the explosiveness. 2022 ALL-PAC-12 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: AP/ST Daiyan Henley, R-Sr., Washington State,.The Los Angeles native owns five double-digit tackle games this season including game-highs of 11 at No. (via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/uk77Hb5yKt. It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience. Huge. Sanders was also the ONLY kicker in the NFL last season who hit a field goal of 60 yards or more. All Rights Reserved. Hes about as dominant a run blocker as youll see from a rising junior. All existing EDGE and ELITE subscribers have access to the guide and can download it here.]. If Sanders does have one weakness, it's kicking extra points. In each of his four full seasons with the Patriots (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019), Collins has delivered PFF coverage grades of 69.0 or higher and PFF pass-rushing grades of 75.0 or higher as one of the better blitzing linebackers in the league. #RiseUpATL: #TBvsATL on FOX: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/EJLjYXQNy2 pic.twitter.com/Sr54Ge1iwX. 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. Highest-Graded Player: TE Mark Andrews (81.7), Super Bowl Win Probability: 8% The rankings are based on PFF ELO Ratings. The Bills decided to let Bojorquez walk in free agency despite a 2020 season where he led the NFL in yards per punt with a number (50.8) that ranked as the fourth-highest of all-time. section: | slug: ranking-the-nfls-top-10-punters-entering-2022-cowboys-and-raiders-punters-both-crack-the-list | sport: football | route: article_single.us | Leonard has posted grades of 75.0 or higher as a run defender, pass-rusher and coverage defender since 2018 joining Wagner and the next guy on this list (Demario Davis) as the only two linebackers to do so. 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, at After a solid rookie year in 2019, Bailey followed that up with arguably the best overall season by a punter last year. The Australian is also a great actor, which comes in handy on fake punts. 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. Since entering the NFL in 2014, Way has slowly turned into one of the best punters in the league, especially over the past few years. The Lions punter ranked second in the NFL with an average of 49.2 yards per punt while also ranking sixth overall with a net punting average of 42.3 yards. 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. Despite the fact that he's only been in the league since 2017, Butker has already proven himself to be one of the best kickers and if he keeps playing the way he's playing, he might soon be at the top of his list. Hed be an elite athlete for a safety, and his coverage skills are unsurprisingly elite already. Back in December, the Raiders signed Cole to a four-year, $12.4 million extension that included $5.9 million in guaranteed money. It hasn't taken long for Leonard to become a focal point of the Colts defense under defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus. For the past few weeks here at CBSSports.com, we've been ranking every position group in the NFL, and now, we've saved the most important position for last: Punters. After booming his way to the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 2018, Dickson has somehow only gotten better. His 47 run stops in 2019 were nine more than the second-place Kuechly at linebacker, driving a career-high run-defense grade of 84.8. PFFs Fantasy Football Rankings include draft and current week ranks from our experts, projections, auction values, advanced stats and our Strength of Schedule metric. Herbert has all the arm talent in the world. If you play well, no one really notices, but if you mess up, everyone thinks you should be cut. Lambo must love kicking in Jacksonville, because he's made almost every kick he's attempted since signing with the team in 2017. Hes split wide in Georgias offense and won legitimate wide receiver routes. Wil Lutz wins it in OT for the @Saints! Lions punter Jack Fox with a DIME on this fake punt! In just his second year with the 49ers, Wishnowsky showed why he was worth a fourth-round pick back in 2019. Young checks pretty much every single box you could ask for and is only a rising true junior. Over the course of his career, he's made 90.7% of his kicks, which makes him the most accurate kicker in NFL history. Fox went undrafted in 2019 and although he would eventually sign with the Chiefs, he got cut before the 2019 season started, which means he was basically sitting at home when the Lions finally decided to take a gamble on him heading into the 2020 season. Townsend averaged 43.8 net yard per punt last season, which ranked behind only Bryan Anger. In 2020, the Colts . Touchbacks aren't ideal in the NFL because you'd rather pin your opponent inside their 20 rather than on their 20. You could argue that the Jaguars best player over the past two years has been their punter, which is likely one reason why Jacksonville signed Cooke to a four-year, $12 million extension this offseason. A large part of that grade was that Greenlaw simply didn't allow big plays on his watch. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. Johnston was one of the few bright spots for the Texans last season. Now the Cowboys just need to think about moving to a new stadium because Anger is too strong to be kicking indoors. PFF's expert rankers can include their opinions on a player's season long fantasy prospects, which can consider more extreme outcomes and a certain amount of subjectivity. He also comes downhill as a blitzer like hes shot out of a cannon. Enjoy! Thanks to his perfect performance in 2020, Crosby has now hit 90% or more of his field goals in two straight seasons (Before 2019, Crosby had never hit the 90% mark in his career). He is the only fantasy analyst to rank in the top 5 of FantasyPros ranking competition in 3 of the last 4 years. Now that Kuechly has retired, it's Wagner's crown to take. So are La Scala, Italy's premier opera house, and the city's universities and schools. The most noteworthy part of his game this past season was just how many plays he made on the football. 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. Look at him SELL THAT FAKE PUNT. For that reason, we're only looking at off-ball linebackers here, whether that be outside or inside. Bailey also managed to put a total of 31 punts inside his opponents' 20-yard, which was the second-highest number in the NFL. In all, his role in the NFL could be . Brown is not a player who comes up all that often when discussing the league's best linebackers, but he deserves a spot in the conversation. Moss has the perfect blend of size (5-foot-10, 220 pounds), athleticism and elusiveness (53 broken tackles on 179 carries). Simmons is on another level athletically from linebackers across the country. There have been two versions of Jamie Collins over his seven-year career the New England Patriots player who looked like one of the best linebackers in the NFL and the Cleveland Browns player who looked far removed from that status. Whenever the Jaguars offense sputtered, which was often, Cooke would come out and flip the field, which caused opposing offenses to usually start their drives with bad field position. From quarterbacks to corners to defensive ends to receivers, we've been ranking everyone, and as we do every year, we've saved the best for last: Punters and kickers. Davis hasn't always been considered one of the game's best linebackers. Feb. 24, 2020 MILAN The landmark Duomo Cathedral, its spires towering over Milan, is closed. Although Way did show off his booming leg last season, he fell out of our top five this year because he struggled with some other parts of his game. Jake Bailey is the best punter in the NFL. Fulton graded better than his teammate Greedy Williams on the LSU defense last season. The Patriots raised some eyebrows in 2019 when they decided to use the 163rd overall pick on a punter, but after two years, Bailey is now making them look like geniuses. NFL. 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. He has sported a top-20 coverage grade at the position in each of the past two years reaching as high as sixth in 2018. That's why the Raiders signed him this offseason. As the punter for the Chiefs last season, Tommy Townsend didn't exactly see a lot of action, but when his team did call on him, he came through almost every time. The rankings are based on PFF ELO Ratings. That gamble paid off big time and that's because Fox ended up setting the franchise record for both yards per punt (49.1) and net yards per punt (44.8) during a fantastic 2020 season (Both of those numbers ranked in the top-three in the NFL last year). Lemieux is one of the most accomplished guards in the country with 2,601 career snaps to his name. The Australian only had experience with Australian football but wasn't a punter in high school. It's not hard to see why he's referred to as The Maniac when you watch him flying around the field and making plays. Cole, who definitely had the most impressive punting season in the NFL last year. Weaver is a name youre going to be hearing a lot more of next spring. 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. We're in the heart of rankings season here at PFF. The Lions punter hit seven touchbacks last season, which was tied for the most in the NFL. Here you'll find everything from our NFL quarterback rankings to our position rankings to our all-32 team roster rankings, making it easy for you to enter the 2020 NFL season armed with everything you need to know. 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. Reagor isnt your typical 5-foot-11, 195-pound wideout. Bryan Anger's punt hit the jumbotron : #SFvsDAL on CBS/NICK/Prime Video: NFL app pic.twitter.com/v6QcauOWfx. WOW.Jason Myers just nails this FG from SIXTY ONE YARDS for the @Seahawks! Hes not the most nimble athlete but has the length and balance you like to see at the position. Fine may be small, but the ball flies out of his hand regardless. He has the length to be disruptive in Indianapolis' zone-heavy defense and has shown himself to be well-rounded through his first two NFL seasons. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. 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). Over the past few weeks here at CBSSports.com, we've been putting out our annual top-10 ranking for each position group in the NFL. NFL Player Stats - Punts More Player Stats. He has truly impressive movement and change-of-direction skills for how big he is, and by all accounts, he's the kind of leader you want on your defense. 1 seed for San Francisco in the playoffs, but Greenlaw made plays like that in coverage throughout the year. He is coming off a down year by his standards, but even then, his 76.4 PFF grade ranked 11th at the position. To put that in perspective, no other punter in the league even did that with 50% of their punts. They can win as run defenders, pass-rushers and coverage defenders. All Rights Reserved. Cooke only kicked one punt into the end zone the entire season, which was tied for the fewest in the NFL by any punter that had 20 or more punts in 2021. Myers might not be ranked at the top of his list, but he was arguably the best kicker in the NFL last year. 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. If there was one knock on Butker last year, it was that he struggled with his extra points, hitting just 88.9% of his kicks. Kicking & Punting *ProBowl, +1st-tm All-Pro. Tucker also has the highest accuracy rate on extra points among active kickers (98.9%). Although punting seems simple -- you just catch the ball and kick it -- it's not that easy, and because of that, trying to rank the top 10 punters in the NFL also isn't easy. . His bad play down the stretch gets a tad overblown because it came on the biggest stage, but wed still like to see those issues not show up in 2019. The amazing thing about Crosby is that he's doing all this while playing in Green Bay, which isn't an easy place to kick due to the weather and the natural grass field. 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. Like several players later on this list, Smith is someone who we know has the tools to be a top-flight NFL linebacker. Kendricks was credited with 14 forced incompletions, which led all linebackers and came in at fifth among all defenders. Davis has elite size and length combined with above average burst for the position. Schobert has shown that he can play the run in the past recording a 77.2 run-defense grade in 2017 so it's not as if his play there is a lost cause. 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. It's a number that highlights both his ability to limit the big play and his ability to make plays on the ball when the opportunity presents itself. Mason Crosby drills a 58-yard FG to put the @packers up 10. As a sophomore, Woodward was one of the most productive linebackers in the country. Despite ranking 12th in the NFL in punts with 29 . The Jaguars took Anger at 70th overall and then the Seahawks took Wilson just five picks later. Only the top two to three percent of analysts are on the team of "senior analysts" in charge of finalizing each grade after review. . section: | slug: ranking-the-top-10-nfl-kickers-and-top-10-punters-heading-into-the-2021-regular-season | sport: football | route: article_single.us | 14 Utah and 10 against Arizona State. The only reason Lambo isn't higher on this list is because he's coming off an injury-filled season where he was limited to just four games. Overall, Dickson placed 48.2% of his punts inside the 20, which was the second-highest percentage in the NFL. Leaders based on 2.5 punts per team game. Just missed: Sam Martin (Broncos), Thomas Morstead (Dolphins), Brett Kern (Titans). If we were ranking how good players could become, Edmunds would comfortably be in the top five. Dickerson became a household name and his Jheri Curls and goggles made him recognizable outside of the helmet. We need more mic'd up punters. PFF's exclusive metrics provide matchup previews, position rankings, grades, and snap counts. One other reason Boswell is ranked so high is because he holds the NFL postseason record for most field goals without a miss (16 for 16). Like Milano, Schobert is going to produce more against the pass than he is against the run. Kendricks is coming off the best season in his five-year NFL career. If Lambo does come back healthy, there's a good chance he'll creep up this list in the future, especially because he almost never misses During his six seasons in the NFL, Lambo has hit 88.9% of his field goals, which makes him the third-most accurate kicker in NFL history. Delpits playmaking ability at all levels of the defense is top-notch. Cole. Of his 51 punts, 20 of them were fair-caught and 22 landed inside the 20 and because of that, returners only averaged 4.8 yards per return against Baltimore, which was the second-lowest number surrendered in the NFL. The Ravens coach hates giving up touchbacks and there was no one better at avoiding touchbacks last year than Koch. 2023 NFL Enterprises LLC. 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. If he gets back to that level as a run defender in the middle of Jacksonville's defense and maintains his play in coverage, he'll push himself closer to the top tier of NFL linebackers. The Kansas City Chiefs and the New Orleans Saints finish PFF's NFL Power Rankings for the 2020 NFL season as the top-ranked reams. He also missed just six tackles compared to 117 total tackles made, his 28 pressures ranked third among linebackers and his 32 run stops were tied for sixth at the position. Listed at 6-foot-4, Wright is a longer linebacker who can cause problems in coverage for opposing offenses in Seattle's zone defense. It will be interesting to see how he fares without the Hall of Fame-bound Kuechly in the middle of that defense. At the rate he's going, Fox might crack our top 10 list for best quarterbacks next season. Although Lutz had a down year in 2020, he did prove that he can still hit clutch kicks and one of his biggest came in Week 8 when he hit a game-winner against the Bears. 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