praise & high rankings for Whitworth & Donald both

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  • October 8, 2020 at 11:01 am #122650
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    from Ranking the NFL’s 50 best linemen, combining offense and defense: Aaron Donald, Watt brothers lead the way

    https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/30054446/ranking-nfl-50-best-linemen-combining-offense-defense-aaron-donald-watt-brothers-lead-way

    1. Aaron Donald, DT, Los Angeles Rams
    2020 grade: 87.7

    Why he’s ranked here: There isn’t a player in the NFL who towers over his peers in the same way Donald does. Since entering the league in 2014, he has recorded a PFF grade above 90.0 in 37 regular-season games. The next closest interior defensive lineman in that span has done so in … nine. Donald is a game-wrecker in its purest form.

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    [note: the source I am using to get this doesn’t divulge AW’s ranking– https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2020/10/8/21503986/rams-news-nfl-espn-donald-whitworth ]

    Whitworth is defying Father Time in his 15th NFL season, ranking as one of the highest-graded tackles in the league through Week 4. He is the only tackle with both pass-blocking and run-blocking grades of 85.0 or higher this season. It has been a strong bounce-back campaign following a 2019 season in which Whitworth posted his lowest PFF grade since 2008.

    October 8, 2020 at 11:51 am #122652
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    PFF LA Rams@PFF_Rams
    PFF’s First-Quarter NFL All-Pro Team is Out!

    Two Rams make the cut at the quarter-mark of 2020. Find out which players they were and what company they keep: https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-first-quarter-all-pro-team-2020

    LT ANDREW WHITWORTH, LOS ANGELES RAMS
    Andrew Whitworth is almost 39 years old, but he has been as good as any tackle in football for the first month of the season. Those two statements are not supposed to go together. While the rest of the Rams’ offensive line has taken a big leap in performance, that leap just allowed Whitworth to return to his level of elite play. He has yet to surrender a sack or a hit and has allowed just three hurries across four games and over 130 pass-blocking snaps. As if that wasn’t good enough, his run blocking has been dominant, particularly in Week 1 against Dallas when he opened a yawning chasm for one rushing touchdown.

    DI AARON DONALD, LOS ANGELES RAMS
    It looked for a moment like the unthinkable was going to happen, and Aaron Donald wasn’t going to make this team. There are other interior linemen out there with better PFF grades through four weeks, but all of them have either played a fraction of the snaps, missed time or played against Minnesota’s Dru Samia, which has totally skewed their grade in small sample sizes. Donald has been uncharacteristically mortal by his standards this season, but even so, he is tied for the league lead with 27 total pressures and has a PFF pass-rushing grade above 90.0.

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