That comes down largely to the ability he has shown in coverage. Back in 2018, nearly everyone in Pittsburgh wanted to see the Steelers release Boswell after a disastrous season where he hit just 65% of his kicks. His performance last season certainly changed that. In 2020 the Broncos allowed 8.1 yards per punt return and that value was down to 6.4 in 2021 (which was third best in the league - only the Bills at 5.6, and the Chiefs at 4.9 allowed fewer. His lack of bend, though, is worrisome at this point. Highest-Graded Player: DI DeForest Buckner (89.7), Super Bowl Win Probability: 3% Vaughn runs with great pacing and patience. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports. All Rights Reserved. Since entering the league in 2012, Wagner's 92.1 PFF grade ranks second out of 103 qualifying linebackers, behind only Kuechly. This past season, in particular, Davis was excellent across the board for the Saints. Despite his impressive year, the Bills decided to let the left-footed punter leave to sign with the Rams (Buffalo replaced Bojorquez with Matt Haack). Anger had such a big season that Cowboys rewarded him a new three-year contract in March that's worth up to $9 million. 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 he returns in 2020 and puts up a similar effort, he should find himself comfortably in the top 10 of this list at this time next year. One game that was truly indicative of Bailey's season came in Week 13. If you're expecting Littleton to come down and make a difference in the run game, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Thanks to his booming leg, his punts also led to 28 fair-catches, which. 1 and then go from there (Although Tucker's grip on the top spot isn't as firm as it used to be). Thats a great skill for a modern back. His 92.1 coverage grade since getting drafted in 2016 trails only Kuechly and David among qualifying linebackers, and despite missing much of the 2018 season, Jones' 26 forced incompletions are tied for second-most at the position over that four-year stretch. JUSTIN TUCKER. Cooke also placed 28 punts inside his opponents 20-yard line, which was tied for the fifth-best number in the NFL. Adebo has ball skills like that of a wide receiver. Bojorquez also had a net punting average of 44.0 yards, which ranked fifth in the NFL. He averaged 45.5 net yards per punt when he was kicking from inside his own 35-yard line, which was the sixth-best number in the NFL,according to Football Outsiders. 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. 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. For one, he was one of only two kickers to hit 100% of his extra points last season (Matt Gay was the other one). He has the size. Punter is easily one of the most thankless positions in the NFL. His career conversion rate is under 90%, which is why he's not higher on this list. CLUTCH.Daniel Carlson hits the 54-yard FG to put the @Raiders ahead by 10. The big returns meant that Cole was sometimes making the tackle, which he didn't seem to mind. #RaiderNation: #NOvsLV on ESPN: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/pkp7nq0Q8u pic.twitter.com/cW3CGZDfgU. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NCAA player performance data. Fine may be small, but the ball flies out of his hand regardless. 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). Davis comes from a track background, and it shows up on his tape. The Jaguars took Anger at 70th overall and then the Seahawks took Wilson just five picks later. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nfl | pageType: stories | Boswell's 95% hit rate on field goals was the fourth-highest in the NFL. Like several players later on this list, Smith is someone who we know has the tools to be a top-flight NFL linebacker. He also comes downhill as a blitzer like hes shot out of a cannon. The rankings are based on PFF ELO Ratings. Also featured are PFF's AWS-powered simulations and PFF-exclusive player grades. Now the Cowboys just need to think about moving to a new stadium because Anger is too strong to be kicking indoors. To put that in perspective, there were only two other punters who even landed 30 kicks inside their opponents' 20-yard line. He makes some throws down the field that only a handful of guys in the NFL could make. 1 seed for San Francisco in the playoffs, but Greenlaw made plays like that in coverage throughout the year. Also, no one was better at pinning in punt returners than Koch. Pro Football Focus graded former West Virginia Mountaineers and Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee as NFL's highest-graded punter of the decade at 95.3, nearly three . If you watched Washington play last season, you may have noticed that they had one of the worst offenses in the NFL and because of that, Tress Way ended up punting the ball 73 times in 2020, which was the most of any punter in the league. Although Lutz struggled a little bit last year, he has a long track record of success in the NFL, which is why he made the top-10 even though he ranked just 21st in overall accuracy last season. The Ravens coach hates giving up touchbacks and there was no one better at avoiding touchbacks last year than Koch. They can win as run defenders, pass-rushers and coverage defenders. The Jags punter ranked second in the league in net yard per punt (43.6) and seventh in net yards per punt (47.3). PFF's exclusive metrics provide matchup previews, position rankings, grades, and snap counts. The Dolphins like Sanders so much that they signed him to a five-year, $22 million extensionthis offseason, which made him the highest-paid kicker in the NFL. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL and NCAA player performance data. When you're punting that often, there's always a chance that you can mess up or your leg can fall off, but neither of those things happened to Way. McKinney has picked up PFF coverage grades of 70.0 or higher in three of the past five seasons. Mason Crosby drills a 58-yard FG to put the @packers up 10. Bryan Anger's punt hit the jumbotron : #SFvsDAL on CBS/NICK/Prime Video: NFL app pic.twitter.com/v6QcauOWfx. Hes capable of playing in a Derwin James-Jamal Adams role, but weve yet to see him really dominate in any of those facets. The @Bridgestone Clutch Performance Play of the Year goes toTHIS PUNTER TO KICKER TOUCHDOWN. Highest-Graded Player: QB Josh Allen (90.9), Super Bowl Win Probability: 5% Although his stats were slightly down in 2021, his track record suggests that he should bounce back big time in 2022. Costellos ability to throw with anticipation and give his receivers a chance to make plays down the field are great skills to have when projecting to the NFL. Highest-Graded Player: DI David Onyemata (88.2), Super Bowl Win Probability: 22% That's an Oscar-worthy performance. 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. If you watched the Texans play last season, you may have noticed that they had one of the worst offenses in the NFL and because of that, Johnston saw A LOT of action. There is an argument to be made that Jones is the best coverage linebacker in the NFL. While many point to the San Francisco pass rush as the catalyst for their defensive revival in 2019, we shouldn't overlook how good their coverage was as a team. Over the past four years, no punter has placedmore balls inside the 10-yard line than Dickson, who has done it nearly 50 times since 2018. However, his PFF grades of 57.0 and 59.4 in his first two NFL seasons speak to the idea that it hasn't all come together yet. 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). Littleton should help correct both those areas. Jack is a good candidate to bounce back next season with Schobert coming in to take middle linebacker duties next to him. 1. As if that's not impressive enough, Townsend also placed 20 of his 37 punts inside the 20-yard line, which means he pinned his opponents deep an NFL-leading 54.1% of the time. NFL footage NFL Productions LLC. His body control at the catch point is also elite as he makes difficult catches look commonplace. Okwuegbunam has speed to get up the seams and body control to be a red-zone threat. His 86.8 coverage grade over those two years is lower than only Lavonte David, Cory Littleton and Luke Kuechly at the position. Maybe the Chiefs should think about moving him to quarterback. Although Bailey had one of the best punting averages in 2021 (47.3 yards), his net punting average took a huge hit falling from 45.6 in 2020 to 39.6 in 2021. The fourth-year kicker also finished the season with a 92.3% conversion rate on field goals, which is the best mark in Dolphins' history. It's also worth pointing out that returners only averaged 7.3 yards return against the Seahawks, which is a testament to both Dickson and Seattle's coverage team. Not only did he lead the NFL in the all-important net-punting average (45.6), but he also ranked fourth overall in yards per punt (48.7). 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. 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. Koo finished the year with 144 points scored, which was tied with Daniel Carlson and Jason Sanders for the most in the NFL. Smith, meanwhile, didn't play poorly by any means, earning a 70.2 PFF grade that ranked 18th among qualifying linebackers in 2019, but he didn't play up to the level that he showed the year before when he was a top-five player at the position. Over that same two-year stretch, the 37.9 coverage grade for Raiders' linebackers collectively came out ahead of only the Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Giants. He made his first appearance in Week 5 against the Los Angeles Chargers and turned in a 91.9 PFF grade for the game a sign of things to come. He doesnt have the high-end athleticism of the top of the linebacker class, but hes no slouch himself. Carlson was originally drafted by the Vikings in 2018 and they're probably kicking themselves right now for letting him go. Now just days away from the start of the 2019 college football season, I've listed my top-five 2020 NFL Draft prospects at every position. 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 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. . Townsend was so good at placing his punts that returners only averaged four yards per return against the Chiefs last season, giving Kansas City one of the best coverage units in the NFL in 2021. Since entering the NFL in 2014, Way has slowly turned into one of the best punters in the league, especially over the past three years. In the punting department, some fans might not even be able to name 10 punters, but we're ranking 10 because punters are people, too. Ranking NFL kickers is pretty easy -- at least at the top -- because you just put Justin Tucker at No. His first step off the snap is arguably the quickest in college football. By the way, if you've heard Anger's name before, it's probably because you know him as the punter who got drafted ahead of Russell Wilson in 2012. To put that in perspective, no other punter in the league even did that with 50% of their punts. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. 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. #RavensFlock #BALvsCLE pic.twitter.com/MbYBUbu8bw. For years, the question at the top of the linebacker position has been a straightforward one: Who is the best linebacker in the NFL Luke Kuechly or Wagner? The Titans punter put 59.5% of his punts (22 of 37) inside the opponents 20, which is an insane number when you consider that only two other full-time punters even hit the 50% mark. Tua already has accuracy, pocket presence and anticipation that is well beyond his years. Just cause a team sucks and they kick it every other drive doesn't make a punter good . His consistency leaves something to be desired, but he has the highest pass-rushing grade of any returning defensive tackle. To a lesser extent, both Kwon Alexander and Dre Greenlaw give the 49ers above-average play in coverage from the linebacker position, as well. PUNTER HIT STICK @AJCole90 boots the punt, then forces the fumble!#KCvsLV | NBC pic.twitter.com/DGUbeBFb1G. While he only played center in his lone year starting at Oklahoma, Humphrey has all the skills to play any interior position at the next level. 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. During his three years in Jacksonville, Lambo has hit 95% of his field goals, including a perfect 5-for-5 in 2020. AUTOMATIC. It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience. 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. In 2018 and 2019, Lutz ranked in the top-seven in accuracy, including 2019, when he hit 88.9% of his field goals, which ranked seventh overall (He ranked sixth in 2018). 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. Delpits playmaking ability at all levels of the defense is top-notch. Bailey was also probably pretty loved by the Patriots punt coverage team and that's because only 12 of his 51 punts got returned, which was the fewest returns given up by a punter last year. His 17 catches through two seasons with five drops is his biggest concern now. NFL Football Player Stats & Stats Leaders - Punts Who's your favorite NFL team? Hekker did that a total of 28 times, which was the third most in the NFL. Hes broken 18 tackles on 94 career catches. The Lions punter hit seven touchbacks last season, which was tied for the most in the NFL. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nfl | pageType: stories | He reaggravated the . Warner was a big part of that. The Browns had kicking woes, as well as punting issues in 2021. Fox has a booming leg and his ability. 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. With some of the struggles at cornerback for Minnesota, play like that in coverage from Kendricks and the Vikings' safety duo of Harrison Smith and Anthony Harris maintained their spot as a top-10 pass defense in 2019. 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. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. Cole. After all, he is playing some of the best football of his career he ranked fourth at the position with an 88.2 PFF grade in 2019. 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. May 16, 2020 1:01 PM EDT. 250+ three-page scouting profiles - advanced stats, 3-year grades, player comps, combine data and Senior Bowl grades - for the 2023 draft class. His 83.6 coverage grade over the past two seasons is a top-10 mark at the position, while his 46.8 run-defense grade over that same time frame comes in as one of the worst marks among linebackers. Subscribe to PFF+ to unlock Sign Up NFL NFL Home Tools NFL Scores NFL Premium Stats The Raiders clearly know they have a good punter in Cole, which probably explains why they didn't even wait until the end of the 2021 season to give him a new contact. [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. FROM 55 YARDS OUT. Wil Lutz wins it in OT for the @Saints! Dante Bonamico (178 through 10) was the only one on pace to do so. Johnson's 76.3 coverage grade ranked 10th among qualifiers at the position. Back in December, the Raiders signed Cole to a four-year, $12.4 million extension that included $5.9 million in guaranteed money. IDP Writer/Ranker for PFF.com + PFF full-time data analyst. That may have to be the case again with three new (young) starters at cornerback. After struggling during a 2019 season where he hit just 76.7% of his field goals, Sanders bounced back in 2020 and finished the year as one of the NFL's best kickers. The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge (v80 and later), Firefox and Safari. Wirfs is absurdly powerful and already technically advanced in pass protection. If you play well, no one really notices, but if you mess up, everyone thinks you should be cut. During the 2021 season, Way averaged a booming 48.3 yards per punt, which ranked fifth in the NFL. Trevathan is another player coming off a career-low overall grade in 2019 (61.9), but his track record gives him the benefit of the doubt and keeps him as one of the top 25 linebackers in the NFL heading into the 2020 season. Shenault is a weapon in the open field. . He controls offensive linemen with ease snap after snap. 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. Anger was so good in 2021 that he ended up being voted a second-team All-Pro. His success in 2020 hinges on him returning to form as the strong coverage linebacker he was in 2017 and 2018, and there's reason to believe he can achieve that. Now, if he can just fix his drop problem that saw him muff 10 a season ago. In just his second year with the 49ers, Wishnowsky showed why he was worth a fourth-round pick back in 2019. Davis has elite size and length combined with above average burst for the position. Hed be an elite athlete for a safety, and his coverage skills are unsurprisingly elite already. Over the course of his career, he's made 90.7% of his kicks, which makes him the most accurate kicker in NFL history. Young checks pretty much every single box you could ask for and is only a rising true junior. Dickson seems to have perfected the art of pinning a punt inside the 20-yard line because he did it 40 times last season, which was the most in the NFL. PFF's exclusive metrics provide matchup previews, position rankings, grades, and snap counts. section: | slug: ranking-the-top-10-nfl-kickers-and-top-10-punters-heading-into-the-2021-regular-season | sport: football | route: article_single.us | Quarterback 1. PFF Rankings: The NFL's top 25 linebackers ahead of the 2020 NFL season By Ben Linsey Aug 25, 2020 We're in the heart of rankings season here at PFF. Punter Brad Robbins not ranked . Although Kern missed three games due to injury last year, he was still quite the weapon when he was on the field. When a punter is pinning teams deep, he'll sometimes have to give up some of his strength for finesse, but not Dickson, who was regularly booming punts in Seattle. Of course, yards per punt isn't a great way to measure a punter's skill. Look at him SELL THAT FAKE PUNT. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a punter, the Chiefs gave us an inside look this season when they mic'd up their punter for a game. Thanks to the tender, Carlson will make $3.38 million in 2021. Team Stats and Rankings Table; Tot Yds & TO Passing Rushing Penalties Average Drive; Player PF Yds Ply Y/P TO FL 1stD Cmp Att Yds TD Int NY/A 1stD Att Yds TD Y/A . He has the combination of awareness in the middle of the field to read plays in zone and the athleticism to react and be in position to make plays that all great coverage linebackers need. Thats right folks, this is a 60 yard punt (in the air) with a 5.15 second hang time. 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. 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. 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. 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. Age, height, weight, and 40 times will be updated after the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine. Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama Hekker averaged just 39.2 net yards per punt, which ranked an ugly 24th in the NFL. Hell be a guard at the next level, but in two games at tackle last season before tearing his Achilles, he didnt allow a pressure. After booming his way to the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 2018, Dickson has somehow only gotten better. Falcons retake the lead on a 52-yard FG from YoungHoe Koo. 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. The . . The Raiders kicker has been in the NFL for three seasons and he's gotten better every year, including last season, when he drilled 94.3% of his field goals, which ranked sixth in the NFL. 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. 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. Hes yet another back, though, that has had no exposure in Wisconsins passing game with only 16 catches and four drops. HARRISON BUTKER FOR THE WIN FROM 58 YARDS! Okwara is extremely explosive off the edge and is already adept at converting speed to power. Bailey also managed to put a total of 31 punts inside his opponents' 20-yard, which was the second-highest number in the NFL. Kendricks was credited with 14 forced incompletions, which led all linebackers and came in at fifth among all defenders. Note: Free agent punters weren't considered for this list since there's no guarantee they'll be playing in the NFL this year. Johnston was one of the few bright spots for the Texans last season. Sam Koch might be the greatest passer in Ravens history. 8:19 am ET, signed him to a five-year, $22 million extension, as the second-longest overtime field goal, more balls inside the 10-yard line than Dickson, they gave him a four-year, $16 million extension this offseason, Agent's Take: Rodgers' trade value, logistics, best fit, McCarthy discusses taking over Cowboys' play-calling, Brett Favre welfare funds scandal explained, Reich says Carr 'checks a lot of boxes' after meeting, Mock: Carter falls amid warrant, Ravens take QB, Rodgers' trade value, logistics and best fit, Best team fits for top FAs at each position, Ex-NFL GM on ramifications of Carter's legal issue, NFLPA issues team report cards: Commanders fail, 49ers GM says he contacted Brady as team seeks QB help, Jalen Carter issues statement amid charges. Pretty easy -- at least at the position punt hit the jumbotron: NOvsLV..., there were only two other punters who even landed 30 kicks inside their opponents ' line! 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