Category: Pass Rushing Productivity
Pass Rushing Productivity: 3rd & 4th Down
Khaled Elsayed tells you which defender has the most sacks on third and fourth down, and who is the most productive pass rusher.
Signature Stat Snapshot: Pass Rushing Productivity
Because sacks don’t tell the whole story, Khaled Elsayed mined the PFF Signature Stat ‘Pass Rushing Productivity’ to point out the best and worst.
Three Years of Pass Rushing Productivity: Defensive Backs
Day four of our look back at some of our Signature Statistics and we’re turning our attention to defensive backs as we bring you the final installment of our three year overview of Pass Rushing Productivity data. If you’ve missed what we’ve done with edge rushers, interior defensive linemen and linebackers, then click on the links [...]
Three Years of Pass Rushing Productivity: Linebackers
Day three in our look back at three years worth of Pass Rushing Productivity, and that means we’re moving away from those guys for whom you would consider pass rushing a primary job. After looking at edge rushers and interior defensive linemen we’re onto the linebackers (not including 3-4 outside linebackers who were looked at [...]
Three Years of Pass Rushing Productivity: Interior D-Line
Yesterday, we kicked off our three-year look back at our Signature Stats by tucking into our first ever Signature Stat: Pass Rushing Productivity. It’s a way of determining the most productive pass rushers (as the name implies), looking past total sack numbers to examine the entire amount of pressure a player gets and on how [...]
Three Years of Pass Rushing Productivity: Edge Rushers
It’s creeping up on us, but not quickly enough to satisfy us at Pro Football Focus. So to take our minds off how long until the new football season finally arrives we’re going to spend a couple of weeks looking back at some of our historical statistics. To be more precise, that means laying out [...]
2011 Pass Rushing Productivity: Defensive Backs
Numbers. They can jump out at you and make an immediate impact. When you see that Roman Harper ended the year with 7.5 sacks, you can’t help but think wow. After all, defensive backs aren’t meant to produce that many sacks. But numbers without context are just part of the picture, and with all due [...]
2011 Pass Rushing Productivity: Edge Rushers
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been distracted by free agency. It’s consumed us and now it’s time to go ‘old-school’ Pro Football Focus on you and delve into one of our signature stats. That stat is the first ever signature stat we created back in the summer of 2009: Pass Rushing Productivity. A [...]
2011 Pass Rushing Productivity: Defensive Tackles
Yesterday was all about awards at Pro Football Focus but today–for this piece anyway–we’re stepping away from that and instead we’re looking at one of the new statistics we’ve just added to our premium section. Yes, after months of perfecting them, we’ve gone and brought out Signature Stats for all defensive positions. So it’s only [...]
Stories of the Season: Dominant Pass Rush Displays
Earlier in the week you may have seen our Pass Rushing Productivity feature that looked at the success pass rushers were having relative to how often they were rushing the passer. It revealed that there simply isn’t a more productive pass rusher in the league than Carlos Dunlap right now, and added evidence to just [...]
