PFF's Big Board for the 2023 NFL Draft offers three-year player grades, combine measurables, position rankings, and in-depth player analysis for all of the top draft prospects. The disappearing acts were far too prevalent, though, and likely the reason he returned for his senior year. Fox has a booming leg and his ability. NFL Player Stats - Punts More Player Stats. Wil Lutz wins it in OT for the @Saints! The losses of veterans Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis in recent seasons mean that Thompson is going to be relied on to lead what projects to be one of the NFL's youngest defenses. Fox has a booming leg and his ability to flip the field has made him a huge asset in Detroit. Hekker did that a total of 28 times, which was the third most in the NFL. 2022 NFL Punting Statistics | The Football Database 2022 NFL Punting Statistics The following are the 2022 NFL Punting statistical leaders, sorted by gross punting average. 2020 NFL Punting Statistics. Quarterback 1. 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. Whenever there's a conversation about the best punters in the NFL, Johnny Hekker's name almost always comes up, which makes sense, because he's one of the best punters in the NFL. Only one punter was voted a first-team All-Pro in 2021 and that punter was A.J. In just his second year with the 49ers, Wishnowsky showed why he was worth a fourth-round pick back in 2019. Touchbacks aren't ideal in the NFL because you'd rather pin your opponent inside their 20 rather than on their 20. If Jeudy could have come out in the 2019 draft, hed likely have been a top-five pick already. 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. #ChiefsKingdom: NBC: @peacockTV pic.twitter.com/VF0VTZvrZX. . Over the course of the season, he averaged 49.6 yards per punt, which ranked second in the NFL and 10th all-time in NFL history. Carlson scored 144 points in 2020, which was tied for the most in the NFL. Myers might not be ranked at the top of his list, but he was arguably the best kicker in the NFL last year. He rushes the passer with violence unrivaled in this class and has the highest pass-rushing grade of any returning edge. Littleton should help correct both those areas. Simmons is on another level athletically from linebackers across the country. 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. You first think about the play that he made late in the 49ers' Week 17 matchup with the Seattle Seahawks to secure the No. He also showed he can be a value add to the receiving game with his work back in 2017. And no, I have no idea why they mic'd up their punter, but I love that they did it. 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. 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. Hes seen a distinct upward trajectory to his career but still needs to clean up some more things. 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. Cleveland is an enormous guard who pretty much never gets overpowered. During the 2021 season, Way averaged a booming 48.3 yards per punt, which ranked fifth in the NFL. Gay can absolutely fly sideline to sideline. Highest-Graded Player: QB Tom Brady (92.6), Super Bowl Win Probability: 4% In 2018, not only did the lead the league in punts inside the 20, but he was also the only full-time punter in the NFL who didn't kick a touchback. At least, I think that's why we saved this one for last. Week SB Rankings PPR .5 PPR Non-PPR IDP 2022 Draft Rankings PPR .5 PPR 2 QB PPR Non-PPR IDP Best Ball Dynasty Startup Dynasty Rookie Dynasty IDP Startup Dynasty IDP Rookie Davis hasn't always been considered one of the game's best linebackers. Since entering the league in 2012, Wagner's 92.1 PFF grade ranks second out of 103 qualifying linebackers, behind only Kuechly. PFF's Big Board for the 2023 NFL Draft offers three-year player grades, combine measurables, position rankings, and in-depth player analysis for all of the top draft prospects. Now, if he can just fix his drop problem that saw him muff 10 a season ago. The last three years have yielded different results, however. One thing Bailey did well was flip the field. #RiseUpATL: #TBvsATL on FOX: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/EJLjYXQNy2 pic.twitter.com/Sr54Ge1iwX. 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. That impressive average came just one year after a 2020 season where he also finished fifth in the league with an average of 48 yards per punt. 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. 250+ three-page scouting profiles - advanced stats, 3-year grades, player comps, combine data and Senior Bowl grades - for the 2023 draft class. During the 2021 season, Fox completed two passes for 38 yards. Parkinsons has one of the largest catch radii in the country. Back in December, the Raiders signed Cole to a four-year, $12.4 million extension that included $5.9 million in guaranteed money. For as good as the Cowboys' linebacker duo of Leighton Vander Esch and Smith were in 2018, last season had to come as somewhat of a disappointment. 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. The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. 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. If you're expecting Littleton to come down and make a difference in the run game, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. As an added bonus, Townsend can also throw the ball. Fulton graded better than his teammate Greedy Williams on the LSU defense last season. 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. 49ers Kicker Mitch Wishnowsky said NO (via @49ers)pic.twitter.com/fJgAacq8jY. Over the past three years, no punter has placedmore balls inside the 10-yard line than Dickson, who has done it 41 times since 2018. 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. #NOvsCHI #Saints pic.twitter.com/6PfrBXEU3W. Consistency will be key for Smith in 2020 as he looks to show why Chicago made him a top-10 pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. Over the course of his career, the Ravens have asked him to attempt five field goals of 61 yards or more (he's 1 of 5 on those kicks). The Steelers will be counting on him to play a big role in 2020 because the depth behind Bush and Vince Williams at linebacker is unproven at best. Anger forced 24 fair catches last season, which was tied for the fourth-highest total in the NFL. Houston has one of the best linebacker duos in the league heading into 2020. The rankings are based on PFF ELO Ratings. Bryan Anger's punt hit the jumbotron : #SFvsDAL on CBS/NICK/Prime Video: NFL app pic.twitter.com/v6QcauOWfx. Hes more slot receiver, though, than an actual tight end in Stanfords offense. Hes as sticky in man coverage as any defensive back in the country and is a complete corner. 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. Leaders based on 2.5 punts per team game. He was as sound as any safety in the country last season. 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. pic.twitter.com/lPan593VO1. All existing EDGE and ELITE subscribers have access to the guide and can download it here .] Milano still has work to do to improve as a run defender and tackler, but that kind of coverage ability is valuable and rare among linebackers. Colorado tries to get the ball in his hands by any means possible and usually good things happen. According to Football Outsiders, Fox averaged 52.5 yards per punt when he was forced to kick the ball from inside his own 35-yard line and that number ranked second in the NFL behind only A.J. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. During the 2020 season, Way averaged a booming 48.0 yards per punt, which ranked fifth in the NFL and this came just one year after a 2019 season where he finished with the 10th-highest single-season average in NFL history (49.6). 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, at The Jags punter ranked second in the league in net yard per punt (43.6) and seventh in net yards per punt (47.3). After a solid rookie year in 2019, Bailey followed that up with arguably the best overall season by a punter last year. 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. 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. 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. Okwuegbunam has speed to get up the seams and body control to be a red-zone threat. Mason Crosby drills a 58-yard FG to put the @packers up 10. His body control at the catch point is also elite as he makes difficult catches look commonplace. A big reason Hekker's net punting average was so high is because he wasn't allowing any returns. He explodes off the snap and through offensive linemen when he wants to. 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. 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. NFL footage NFL Productions LLC. Listed at 6-foot-4, Wright is a longer linebacker who can cause problems in coverage for opposing offenses in Seattle's zone defense. 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. If you watched any Jaguars games in 2021, then you probably saw a lot of Cooke and that's because he was one of Jacksonville's busiest players. 2023 NFL Enterprises LLC. Mutis redshirt freshman season at guard was a pleasure to watch as he tossed around defenders left and right. Johnston was one of the few bright spots for the Texans last season. During the 2020 season, the 49ers punter put 32 punts inside the 20, which was more than any other punter in the NFL. Johnston was also able to force 22 fair catches with his punts, which was tied for the fifth-highest total in the league. Tucker also has the highest accuracy rate on extra points among active kickers (98.9%). He'll look to show that 2019 was no one-year fluke as a key part of the Broncos defense in 2020. Henderson locked down his side of the field last year as well as any corner in the country. 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? 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. In 2018, not only did the lead the league in punts inside the 20, but he was also the only full-time punter in the NFL who didn't kick a touchback. Live picks, grades and reaction to the 2023 NFL Draft. To put that in perspective, no other punter in the league even did that with 50% of their punts. Alamar steered Stanford's 2013 special teams to a trio of top 40 NCAA rankings, including net punting (33rd - 38.49 yards/punt), punt returns (21st - 11.96 yards/return) and kickoff returns (39th - 23.09). A large part of that grade was that Greenlaw simply didn't allow big plays on his watch. Edmunds has performed well in stretches, but he has yet to put it all together for an entire season. Bush showed a nose for the football early with 100-plus tackles, two interceptions (to go along with a dropped pick) and four fumble recoveries, and it's clear he was getting more comfortable and consistent as the season progressed. Hes got 17 touchdowns over the past two seasons. Of course, yards per punt isn't a great way to measure a punter's skill. 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. 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. Hes about as dominant a run blocker as youll see from a rising junior. He has only two drops on 56 catchable in his career. That's why the Raiders signed him this offseason. NFL Football Player Stats & Stats Leaders - Punts Who's your favorite NFL team? 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. 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. section: | slug: ranking-the-top-10-nfl-kickers-and-top-10-punters-heading-into-the-2021-regular-season | sport: football | route: article_single.us | Having a former special teams coordinator as your head coach might add pressure for some people, but not for Koch, who seems to share a brain with John Harbaugh. We need more mic'd up punters. The big returns meant that Cole was sometimes making the tackle, which he didn't seem to mind. Our fantasy football projections provide a median projection for each player for each week of the season, independent of the opinion of any one analyst. He's also pinned the opponent inside their own five-yard line more times (15) than any other punter over that span. Hes damn near unblockable one-on-one in the run game but has yet to earn a pass-rushing grade above 70.0 for a season. Okudah has pretty much only shown out as a man corner at this point, but thats where youd like to see corners win. For one, he kicked seven touchbacks, which was tied for the second-most in the NFL. At one point during the season, Bailey had a 71-yard punt, which was the third longest that anyone kicked in the NFL all season. Highest-Graded Player: OG Wyatt Teller (92.9), Highest-Graded Player: OT Trent Williams (91.9), Highest-Graded Player: CB Xavien Howard (87.3), Highest-Graded Player: OT D.J. The Ravens might want to let him play quarterback once in awhile. 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. To date, though, Cleveland has only been on the field for 569 snaps in his career. 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. Robinson was reportedly ousted from West Virginia over the summer and still hasnt found a home for this upcoming fall. His 86.8 coverage grade over those two years is lower than only Lavonte David, Cory Littleton and Luke Kuechly at the position. 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. Biadasz has been one of the best centers in college football since the day he stepped foot on Wisconsins field. Enjoy! He also comes downhill as a blitzer like hes shot out of a cannon. 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). Hes above average in pretty much every aspect of the position you could ask for. Kern also showed off that control by only allowing 13 of his punts to be returned for yardage, which was the second-lowest number in the NFL behind only Jake Bailey. The Lions punter hit seven touchbacks last season, which was tied for the most in the NFL. 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). Although the Pro Football Hall of Fame has only inducted two true kickers -- Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen -- in its 58-year existence, Tucker is making a strong case for being the third (or fourth, if Adam Vinatieri gets in), so needless to say, he's at the top of our best kicker list. The . His lack of bend, though, is worrisome at this point. Vaughn runs with great pacing and patience. Herbert has all the arm talent in the world. He is the only fantasy analyst to rank in the top 5 of FantasyPros ranking competition in 3 of the last 4 years. Anger also had a knack for regularly getting off huge punts: He averaged 48.4 yards per punt which ranked fourth in the NFL. 1. (via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/uk77Hb5yKt. When he's not punting the ball, the Lions also love to unleash his throwing arm. Punter Brad Robbins not ranked . It's not easy punting in New England and it's not easy punting for a perfectionist like Bill Belichick, but Bailey has managed to make things work for three seasons. The Chiefs kicker showed off his booming leg in February when he became the first kicker in NFL history to hit multiple field goals of 49 yards or more in a Super Bowl. In 2021, Hekker had a net average of 42.6 yards per punt, which ranked fourth in the NFL. PFF employs over 600 full or part-time analysts, but less than 10% of analysts are trained to the level that they can grade plays. 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