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. Johnston was one of the few bright spots for the Texans last season. 4. His lack of bend, though, is worrisome at this point. 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. He has elite deep speed and is also a dog at the catch point. 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. Since his rookie year in 2012, Hekker has been an absolute weapon and during the early part of his career (2012-16), he was arguably the only weapon (This was back when he played for the Rams while they were still in St. Louis). Since entering the NFL in 2014, Way has slowly turned into one of the best punters in the league, especially over the past few years. Greenlaw's play as a rookie came as a pleasant surprise for San Francisco, particularly with him needing to take on a larger role as Kwon Alexander missed time due to injury. That gamble paid off big time and that's because Fox ended up setting the franchise record for both yards per punt (49.1) and net yards per punt (44.8) during a fantastic 2020 season (Both of those numbers ranked in the top-three in the NFL). The Texans punter definitely made the most of his 88 punts by placing 37 of them inside his opponents 20-yard line, which was the second-best number in the NFL. The Browns had kicking woes, as well as punting issues in 2021. Jack Fox (Detroit Lions) Lions rookie Jack Fox is PFF's top-ranked punter in 2020, with a grade of 92.2 (five higher than any other punter). Tucker also has the highest accuracy rate on extra points among active kickers (98.9%). AUTOMATIC. Davis should be an anchor in the middle of the Saints' defense once again in 2020. Lamb is incredibly advanced as a route-runner. Huge. Although his stats were slightly down in 2021, his track record suggests that he should bounce back big time in 2022. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL player performance data. 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. Davis has elite size and length combined with above average burst for the position. Listed at 6-foot-4, Wright is a longer linebacker who can cause problems in coverage for opposing offenses in Seattle's zone defense. Onwuzurike is arguably the most athletic defensive tackle in the class. NFL 2022 Regular Season Punting Entire League 25 Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL player performance data. or This section is showing information as of the end the 2022-23 season. Cole's net yardage was almost as impressive as he ranked fifth in the NFL with a net average of 42.5 yards per punt. Boswell was one of the NFL's best kickers during his first three years in the league (2015-17) and he's returned to that form over the past two years. Leaders based on 2.5 punts per team game. 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. The pass game reigns king in today's NFL, so that kind of skill set is the most valuable to a defense. I mean, who can forget the time that a punter won the NFL's award for Clutch Performance Play of the Year back in 2019 and he won it by throwing a pass to a KICKER. Swift is pretty clearly the top receiving threat in the class. CLUTCH.Daniel Carlson hits the 54-yard FG to put the @Raiders ahead by 10. That means a lot of the ordering particularly later on comes down to preference on the type of linebacker that you're looking for. At the rate he's going, Fox might crack our top 10 list for best quarterbacks next season. Carlson scored 144 points in 2020, which was tied for the most in the NFL. Hes got 17 touchdowns over the past two seasons. He makes some throws down the field that only a handful of guys in the NFL could make. 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. 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. Johnson was on precisely no one's radar heading into last season. Thanks to his booming leg, his punts also led to 28 fair-catches, which was the second most that any punter in the NFL forced last season. Boswell's 95% hit rate on field goals was the fourth-highest in the NFL. Butker was a huge weapon for the Chiefs in 2020 and he showed just how clutch he can be early in the season when he hit a 58-yard game-winning field goal against the Chargers that still stands as the second-longest overtime field goal in NFL history. Hes seen a distinct upward trajectory to his career but still needs to clean up some more things. Highest-Graded Player: Edge Khalil Mack (92.3), Super Bowl Win Probability: <1% 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 | Cleveland is an enormous guard who pretty much never gets overpowered. 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). The most noteworthy part of his game this past season was just how many plays he made on the football. Dante Bonamico (178 through 10) was the only one on pace to do so. Cooke only kicked one punt into the end zone the entire season, which was tied for the fewest in the NFL by any punter that had 20 or more punts in 2021. @MiamiDolphins: #NFLHonors | Tonight at 8PM ET on FOX pic.twitter.com/RZKkKXVNVr. 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. If you play well, no one really notices, but if you mess up, everyone thinks you should be cut. Fulton graded better than his teammate Greedy Williams on the LSU defense last season. 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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). 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. Now 7-of-7 for 82 yards in his career after completing this fourth-and-9 pass for 15 yards on a fake punt against Washington #Ravens pic.twitter.com/HETaugUCwU. . PFFs Fantasy Football Rankings include draft and current week ranks from our experts, projections, auction values, advanced stats and our Strength of Schedule metric. Despite the fact that he's only been in the league since 2017, Butker has already proven himself to be one of the best kickers and if he keeps playing the way he's playing, he might soon be at the top of his list. Bojorquez also had a net punting average of 44.0 yards, which ranked fifth in the NFL. He's earned this top spot with strong, well-rounded play throughout his career. 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. Adebo has ball skills like that of a wide receiver. Since entering the league in 2012, Wagner's 92.1 PFF grade ranks second out of 103 qualifying linebackers, behind only Kuechly. Jack is a good candidate to bounce back next season with Schobert coming in to take middle linebacker duties next to him. McKinney comes in one spot below his teammate Cunningham on the list, profiling more as a traditional run-stopper at nearly 260 pounds. . 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. pic.twitter.com/R5mkRKoRqs. 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. Cooke also placed 28 punts inside his opponents 20-yard line, which was tied for the fifth-best number in the NFL. It will be interesting to see how he fares without the Hall of Fame-bound Kuechly in the middle of that defense. We're in the heart of rankings season here at PFF. The only reason Fox isn't higher on this list is because he struggled with touchbacks. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL and NCAA player performance data. His 72.6 coverage grade ranked 15th among 91 qualifying linebackers on the season. J.K. Dobbins, Baltimore Ravens; RB22. Delpits playmaking ability at all levels of the defense is top-notch. Cole. The Lions punter hit seven touchbacks last season, which was tied for the second-most in the NFL. Highest-Graded Player: QB Russell Wilson (90.3), Super Bowl Win Probability: 2% Dickson seems to have perfected the art of pinning a punt inside the 20-yard line because he did it 32 times last season, which was the most in the NFL. The transfer graded out as a 4.5-star kicking prospect who could double as a back-up punter with continued work in the punt game. 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. It's what slots him into the top 20 on this list. 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. He was also a first-team All-American according to Sporting News, and holds the NCAA career record for punting yards . PFF's exclusive metrics provide matchup previews, position rankings, grades, and snap counts. Dobbins is viewed as damaged goods after a major knee injury that cost him his entire 2021 season. Moss has the perfect blend of size (5-foot-10, 220 pounds), athleticism and elusiveness (53 broken tackles on 179 carries). 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. 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. 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. He broke up eight passes after breaking up just 12 in his previous seven NFL seasons combined. Moses is still a work in progress one-on-one in coverage, but he can play in space as well as any linebacker in the country. Hes split wide in Georgias offense and won legitimate wide receiver routes. 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. All Rights Reserved. He has to prove he has enough quicks to rush the passer more consistently, though. Leaders based on 2.5 punts per team game. Although Kern missed three games due to injury last year, he was still quite the weapon when he was on the field. Over the past two seasons, Littleton has a PFF coverage grade of 90.6 and has missed just nine of his 254 tackling opportunities. Vander Esch has said this offseason that the injury is behind him and that he's better now than he was before the injury last season, and if taken at his word, that's great news for Dallas. McKinney is a jack of all trades for the Alabama defense. 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. Vaughn runs with great pacing and patience. The Lions punter hit seven touchbacks last season, which was tied for the most in the NFL. PFF's Preseason 2020 NFL Draft Guide is LIVE. Anger forced 24 fair catches last season, which was tied for the fourth-highest total in the NFL. Of course, all of these rankings were made using the unique data that can be found as a part of a PFF Elite subscription, and you can use promo code KICKOFF30 here to save 30% off your new PFF subscription today. That being said, even Hekker would probably admit that 2020 wasn't his best year, which is why he's so low on the list. That's why the Raiders signed him this offseason. His 45.9 PFF grade was easily the lowest of his career. Kinlaw has a great combination of size (6-foot-6, 305 pounds) and athleticism when projecting to the NFL. The big returns meant that Cole was sometimes making the tackle, which he didn't seem to mind. He comes in as the second most valuable linebacker, per PFF WAR, over that eight-year stretch, as well. As an added bonus, Townsend can also throw the ball. Lambo was dealing with several lower-body injuries and it's not always easy to recover from those. Robinson packs a punch as a pass-rusher. Hes yet another back, though, that has had no exposure in Wisconsins passing game with only 16 catches and four drops. Punting - Kolton McGhee - 61.4 No one hit the 200 Snap Club, which is to be expected since the season was shorted by three games. In each of his four full seasons with the Patriots (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019), Collins has delivered PFF coverage grades of 69.0 or higher and PFF pass-rushing grades of 75.0 or higher as one of the better blitzing linebackers in the league. Tua already has accuracy, pocket presence and anticipation that is well beyond his years. At one point during the season, Crosby hit a 57-yarder, which was the 10th longest field goal that any kicker made all year (The clip below says the kick was 58, but it was actually 57). Now, if he can just fix his drop problem that saw him muff 10 a season ago. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. He looks primed to take the next step in 2019. During the 2020 season, the 49ers punter put 32 punts inside the 20, which was more than any other punter in the NFL. He offers nothing as a runner, though, or outside the pocket. His 47 run stops in 2019 were nine more than the second-place Kuechly at linebacker, driving a career-high run-defense grade of 84.8. In 2019, Way finished with the 11th-highest single-season average in NFL history (49.6). WOW.Jason Myers just nails this FG from SIXTY ONE YARDS for the @Seahawks! Of course, he also shined some areas and one of those areas was pinning the opponent inside their 20. 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. Anger might not have been the most important player on the Cowboys roster last season, but he was definitely the most consistent. 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. Although punting seems simple -- you just catch the ball and kick it -- it's not that easy, and because of that, trying to rank the top 10 punters in the NFL also isn't easy. section: | slug: ranking-the-top-10-nfl-kickers-and-top-10-punters-heading-into-the-2021-regular-season | sport: football | route: article_single.us | Oh and because he grew up playing Australian rules football, he also likes to tackle. It's not difficult to get overshadowed by Wagner, but Wright is still one of the better linebackers in the league in his own right. Hes got an ideal guard build with power throughout his frame. You first think about the play that he made late in the 49ers' Week 17 matchup with the Seattle Seahawks to secure the No. Dickerson became a household name and his Jheri Curls and goggles made him recognizable outside of the helmet. Also featured are PFF's AWS-powered simulations and PFF-exclusive player grades. #RaiderNation: #NOvsLV on ESPN: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: https://t.co/pkp7nq0Q8u pic.twitter.com/cW3CGZDfgU. 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. Over the course of his career, the four-time Pro Bowler has averaged 47.0 yards per punt, which is the second-highest number in NFL history. 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). One thing Bailey did well was flip the field. Edmunds has performed well in stretches, but he has yet to put it all together for an entire season. 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