AD’s season grade of 123.9 highest PFF has given in 13 years of ranking players

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January 8, 2019 at 3:17 am #96304

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FMIA Wild-Card Weekend: Double-Doink Misses, Grass-Green Stains and One Golden Grab

Peter King

Intelligent Football

How good was Aaron Donald this year? By one measure, the Rams defensive tackle—and certain Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight year—had the best season at any position since 2006, when Pro Football Focus began measuring every player’s performance in every game.

Donald’s season grade of 123.9 is the highest PFF has given in its 13 years of ranking players. This season, it is 55.7 points ahead of second-place Fletcher Cox of the Eagles, a dominant player in his own right.

The most impressive thing about Donald’s season, to me, is that, usually playing from the defensive interior, he had 106 quarterback disruptions (sacks, hits, hurries). So imagine this: On about one of every five snaps Donald played when the opposition was going to pass, he sacked/hit/pressured the quarterback. Amazing for an interior player.

J.J. Watt is the only dominant comparable, in my opinion, in the PFF era to Donald. Watt won the Defensive Player of the Year award three times in four seasons between 2012 and 2015. Watt’s PFF grades in those years: 89.0, 94.1, 93.6, 93.9.

Donald’s greatness is beyond dispute. He’s 27. He’s healthy, with no history of significant injury. He’s five years into what should be an historic career.

January 8, 2019 at 5:02 am #96305

Agamemnon
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Maybe we can sign him long term?

Agamemnon

January 8, 2019 at 9:49 am #96307

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Agamemnon wrote:

Maybe we can sign him long term?

He’s too short.

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