PFF: Top 10 Pass Rushers (so far)

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Garrett came into the season as the best defensive player in college football, and was second to only Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey as the top player overall. What we saw from Garrett in 2014 and 2015 as a freshman and sophomore was nothing short of incredible, and he has continued that with a dominant start to 2016 as a pass rusher. While he has recorded just four sacks, he has added 11 quarterback hits and 20 hurries, so don’t be fooled by his lack of sacks. With 35 total pressures on 169 pass-rushing attempts, he averages a pressure on 4.8 pass rushing attempts, so remains once of the most dominant players in the nation.

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Barnett and Garrett were very close in terms of their pass-rushing ability, and that has remained the case so far this year. Barnett struggled in the opening game against Appalachian State, and wasn’t much better against Virginia Tech the following week, with just two hits and two hurries in the opening two games of the year. Since then though, he has exploded back to form, registering 27 total pressures in the past four games. Like Garrett, his total of five sacks doesn’t blow you away, but 10 of his pressures have come in the form of hits, so he has made an impact knocking quarterbacks to the ground.

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We highlighted Williams as a star in the making after watching him register 52 total pressures on just 148 pass-rushing snaps last year. Heading into 2016 he was primed for a bigger role, and so far he has made the most of that. We saw him prove far too much for USC right tackle Zach Banner, one of the top players at the position last year in the opening game of the year and through six games he has registered two sacks, six hits and 18 hurries on 110 pass-rushing snaps, a pressure once every 4.2 pass-rushing attempts. That’s not quite at the productivity level he was as a part time player a year ago, but in a bigger role he has proven himself to be a dominant edge defender.

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