Three Years of Pass Rushing Productivity: Edge Rushers

[stillers4me]

Earlier in the year, we did a piece on Pass Rushing Productivity. Fearing it may have been lost amongst all the labor talk of the time, we’ve revamped it – cleaned up some data and added a few more years to the mix.

Pass Rushing Productivity is back and bigger than ever and today we’re looking at the edge rushers.

It’s as simple a formula as ever. You add up all the sacks, hits and hurries a defender gets and divide it by the number of snaps they spent rushing the passer (a stat only found at PFF), multiply it by one hundred and, suddenly, you have a nice, juicy, PRP number to get stuck into...........

read more @ http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2011/06/20/three-years-of-pass-rushing-productivity-edge-rushers/

[Steeldude]

it would be better if they supplied stats on double and triple-teams. it would also be handy to see who blocked the pass rusher. was it a RB, T, G, TE etc...?

[Craic]

it would be better if they supplied stats on double and triple-teams. it would also be handy to see who blocked the pass rusher. was it a RB, T, G, TE etc...?

True. But even with that said, notice that over the last three years, we have the number 3 and 4 players on that list.

[Austin87]

WOW! Pretty impressive by Woodley and Harrison being right up there with Ware and Freeney. Woodley needs to get locked up. He deserves a big contract.