Top Edge Rusher In The NFL Draft.

By The End Of, Say, The Second Day Of The Draft, The NFL Will Have Taken On A Surplus Of Talent At The Edge Rusher. A Market Rising in The Game That Will Quickly Even Off. They're Coming In All Shapes And Forms.

The "Wills" And The "Smith" Are A Stimulus Package Like No Other has Seen In Recent Years, Sure To Raise The Bench_line For The Position—however, Some Of These Quarterback Soul Snatchers Will Only Fair As Well As The Circumstances They're Drafted Into Befit Them.

Is It Time We Begin To Re-Evaluate The Pass Rush And Edge Rusher Positions? Last Season We Witnessed The Eagles Pull Out One The Mightiest Seasons In Terms Of Sack Production And Road That Momentum All The Way To The Super Bowl. With Every Win On The Way To The Mountain, The Eagles Emitted The Sense That Their Five Man Front Could Just Lawnmower The Competition' Quarterback On The Way To The Super Bowl. The Eagles Finished As One of Just Three Teams With a 50% Or Better Pass Rush Win Rate. On That Same Bend, The Chiefs Took Hold Of The Super Bowl Mountaintop With A Mostly Situation Base Pass Rush Scheme. They Landed In The Middle Of The League In Pass Rush. Pressure Numbers Round The League Have Steadily Jumped Over The Pass Decade Or So—Almost Steadily With The Rise In Passing Attacks Around The League. Sacks Are Mathematical Proven To Have The Greatest Impact On Stymieing Passing Attacks. With The Rise In Demand, payment Loads Of Elite Pass Rusher Are Barreling Into The League To The Point I Believe The Market has Hit Equilibrium. A Plethora Of The Best, Most Productive Pass Rushers In The League Are Still Signing Checks Off Of Their Rookie. A Hand Full Of Team Have Collected Stable Of Pass Rushers. When A Decade Ago Two Pass Rusher Would Make A D-Line, Most Lines, Especially In The NFC East, Have At least Three To Four Top Notch Upper Echelon Guys. 

Nevertheless, the Most Adept Passer AND Fully Loaded Schemes Design By A Offensive Coordinator Worth His Salt have pressure Packages Set To Exploit Over Pressure Happy Teams. This Year's Draft will bring a surplus to the edge and other down-lineman positions. I Recall Any Draft "Producing" So Much Depth At Any One Position Like This Year With Rushers. The Boards Change Constantly With These Except The Two Eulogized Names At The Top That Need Little Mention. Forget The Quarterbacks; with 7–10, Really Special Pass Rushers In This Draft, The Arms Race Of Pass Will Get Set Off Come April. Some Team Or Team Will Walk Way(Depending On Fit and Aggressiveness) Team Will Walk Away With A Entire Remodeled Defensive Line. The Cardinals, Who Have Prime Real Estate To Trade Back, Look Like The Most Obvious Choice after Struggling To Shelter Or Muster Any Semblance Of A Pass Rush Last Season. This Pass Class Will Mostly Produce A Clinical Lesson On Production, Projection, And Where Physical Tools Fall In The Middle. 

Will Anderson, Alabama—Evaluating Pass Rushing Talents Over The Pass Two Year Comes With A Fork A The End Of The Road. Your Interest Are Usually Stolen Away By Either Production Of Potential Marked By Traits, and Recently Traits Have Matter More In The Eyes Of Teams. Traditionally Sack Numbers And Pressure Figures Meant All You Needed To Know Because Defensive Edge Guys Needed To Hit The League, Hitting The Quarterbacks. Today Edge Rusher Need To Strike The Balance, From Setting The Edge Dropping Back, and Just Smashing The Pocket. The "Traits" Column Of Rusher Succeed In This Area Because They're Just Purdy, Or Clay, A Children Evn In A Way The, They Become Anything and Do Anything, But Right They're Nothing Until Molded. Depending On The Molding, Clay Can Become a Vase, A Bowl, Or Whatever Patrick Swayze Made In The Movie Ghost. Alabama's Will Anderson Most Exemplify This Bend Or Refraction In The Pass Rush Exploratory Matrix. Anderson Will enter The Leaghe From A Pedigree Program In Alabama. Highly Expected To Have His Name called as The First Defensive Player Off The Board In The Top Five, Anderson Rank Highly Amongst The Sack Getters From Bama. Few Of The School's Stud Defensive History Can Match Anderson's Production. Tough known For Their Interior pass Rushers, Anderson Might be The Spot As The Best Edge Rusher Out Of Bama. According To Pro Football Focus, Anderson Rushed His Way Into 206 pressures since 2020, the most in FBS In Those Three Years. His 37.5 Sacks, Back To Back With Double Digit Sacks—Whiles Continually Piling On Pressures 82 pressures, 17.5 in 2021 After Connecting On 7 sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss As A Freshman The Year Before. The Production From This Kid Might Suit Better On A Infiniti Scroll Rather Than A Draft Board. 

Anderson Skip Most Of the Testing At The Combine. His Measurement Fell Right In The Ball Park Of The Usual Edge Rusher. I Guess The Only Number Or Numbers Pertinent To Him, The Number 1. He's The Number 1 Rated Defensive Player In This Draft And Remains Unchallenged Now That Jalen Carter Stock Has Hit A Stand Still and is The Number One Rated Player By Some Estimates The Number One Rated Player. Anderson, He's A Tall 6'3. On edge, Anderson Likes To Stands With the Top Half Hanging Over The Edge Of Tackles Like "Blanka" From Street Fighter. He Carries His Around The Edge Of Tackle, Basically Isolating Them Then He Goes To Work. Even Without The Testing, He's Plenty Explosive Slow Footed Tackles Get Dusted At The Sight Of His First Step. More robust Tackles Who Can Work The Speed Into A Latch On Get Meet With Advanced Hand Work. Anderson's Excellent Technical Skills With His Hands and His Cross Chop Move. Anderson Wins In The Engage Then Disengage Game. 

He's A Machamp(From Pokémon) With How Many And How Fast His Hands Flicker When Rushing At Tacklers. Excellent Recognition Or Quick Chops Allow Him To Beat The Tackle's Hand And Displace Before The Tackle Can Raise To Meet Anderson's Chest. Almost Like A Feint Move In Fencing (🤺 ), Only With Real Contact. Even When Coming Off The Edge With Straight Sudden And Lacking Mind Athleticism, Anderson Has A Nose For Sniffing Out Runs And RPO. He's Absorbing Stimulus Fast While On The Move. If Anderson Has Negatives, This Athleticism Doest Shoot Through The Moon. He compares Well To Kayvon Thibodeaux, But He Lacks The Bend. He's Strong But Not Powerful, He's Not Going To One Arm Press A Guy Out Of The Way. 

Will McDonald, Iowa State—Will McDonald Has Generated The Epithet Undersized Only Through The Sense Of His Weight. I Hate "Freaky" Even Though All Talking Heads Out There Throw The Term Around Like MSG On Poorly Season Food. Nevertheless, Will McDonald Has My Lexicon On This One. He's An Extremely Bendy And Loose Pass Rusher. Standing At 6'4, Mcdonald IV has More Than Enough Height. Still, At 239 Lbs., the Facts No Edge Rusher In The NFL Played Below 240, But McDonald's Has The Off-season to Add At least 5-10 Lbs But No More. As A Speed Rusher, He Needs To Remain Light.

McDonald Attacks Tackles From The Deep Outside, Like Five Or Seven Tech). McDonald Uses His Speed To Set Tackles Up To Kick Out. Once He Sets Up A Tackle On A Island On The Left Side, He Unleashes His Wraft. McDonald's Come Off The Edge Stand With "Pirelli's skirtin'" Like Howling. Few Tackles In The League Are Slow-Footed; Less They Wouldn't Play Tackle. Still, McDonald And His 11'0 Broad Jump Spectacular-ness Can Face Down Most Any Competition. When McDonald Can Get Around, He Tries The Other Direction With Instantaneous Excitement With His Spin. He Gets His Hip In And Out Of Transition and Into A Typhoon In No Time. He's Plane In The Night Sky Sudden With His Move. Once Offensive Tackles Open Up, McDonald Can Flash In One and Push Out The Other Gap. His Speed Opens Up Power Which Doesn't Show Often. Still, He Shows A Good Feel For When Power Works When Offensive Tackles Are Prioritized When The Other Aspects Of His Game. He's A Penalty Generating Nightmare Once He Hits The Outside Shoulder Of A Tackle. Hand Fighting Won't Help; McDonald Has All The Moves, Swim Moves, Club Moves, Cross Chops, His Five In College, We're Used To Maximizing His Natural Ability. 

Myles Murphy, Clemson—

I'll Never Stand Up At The Front Of The Line To Brag About Another Man's Build, Their Body, Like Some Other Player Evaluators. (No Shade). Even In Football. I'm Not With The Social Media Saquon Barkley's Quad Stalkers Or The Jalen Hurts's Power Lift Brigade. Until I Gazed Upon Clemson Defensive Ends Myles Murphy. Even As Football ball Athletes Continue To Border Near The Peak Extremes Of Physical Challenge, Murphy Looks Like The Perfect Result Of The High Evolutionary Serum For "unlocking genetic codes," Similar To The Man-Beast, "the ultimate end of evolution." As You Find Your Jaw Gaping Watching This 6'5, 268 Lbs Take On Blocker, His Power Rush Work As The Strongest Arrow In His Pass Rush Quiver. He Delivered 25 Reps on The Bench And 20 Sacks In Three Years At Clemson. 

Murohy's Production Far Out Weights Travon Walker Last year's First Overall Pick. Both Guys Share Similiar Build. Murphy Has A Sudden Get Off First Step, And Whenever He Can't Break In Past A Left, He Settles Into a Power Rush. Where Murphy Falls Short, He Lack Bend. He's Tight And Rigid. He Moves Well In Straight Line Like A Rook In Chess But Lacks Bend To Move Around And Under Tackles, Their Shoulders Or Their Arms. 

Straight Explosiveness Works Better On The Inter, But Without Countermoves To His Power, Myles Fights To Maintain His Straight Line To The Quarterback And Whiffs On Attempts More Than One Assumes, with Just A 14.3% Pass Rush Win Rate. He Played Most Of His Snaps Outside Of The Tackle, Considering Clemson Already Had a Monster In The Middle. He Gets Very Little Had Movement. 

 His Hands At All In Any Cross Chop Motion Or Swim Technique. The Bulk Of His Strength Comes Base And Not His Arm, So He Can't One Arm Stab And Control An Offensive Lineman. From A Physicality Standpoint, Coaches Will Find Romanticizing The Marriage Of Their Ability To Train And Install Technique On To The Already Incredible Draw Of Myles Murphy's Build. Murphy's Still Young At Just 21(Several Guys In This Class Ranked Lower Than He Is 24), Giving Him A Developmental Bridge To Digest The Technique Of Pass Rushers. If Teams Believe They Can Create A More Tractable Pass Rusher From The Mold Of Arm And Legs, Their Given With Myles Murphy. 

Luka Van Ness, Iowa—Luka's Van Ness He's A Big Name And A Big Frame Coming Into The Draft With Tons Of Upside and Projectable Skills. Some Evaluators Have Made The Claim That Van Ness's Hulk-ish Size Makes Him More Suitable For The Inside Pass Rush Gap Stuffing Assignment. The Difference Will Mean Some Couple of Million If He Succeeds And Which Technical Skills At The Position He'll Have To Master. 

Inside Defensive Are More Geared Toward Gap Soundness, Taking On Double Teams. In Today Two Gap Responsibility, Vic Fangio Influenced Power, Patience, And Balance Are Key. Van Ness Display He's Around The Same Size Stretch As Arik Armstead And Deforest Buckner, Both Defensive Tackle Types All 6'7. His Frame— He's Built Like A Block Of Lumber—Suggests Van Ness Could Impact The Middle. He'll Serve As More Of a Battering Ram Rather than A Finesse Rusher. He's Power Like A Mountain. His Test Numbers Would Stand As Testament Or An Archetype For Combine Success Had Not So Many Other Athletes Blow The Roof Off In Indy. His Arm was Measured 34 Inch With An 81 Inch Wing Span. He Didn't Bench Well, But His Power Shows Up On Tape. 

His 1.57 SeC Spilt Tell Everything. He's Sudden, And Quick Twitch Which Means At Time, he Can Go To Fast Up Field For His Own Good, But Also he Gets Off The Ball On The Edge. Van Ness Generated 13 Sack And 19 Tackles For Loss Between 2022 And 2023 And 46 Pressures Last Season. On THE inside, That Sudden Would Get Stuff Out In A Pile Of Bodies. On The Outside, Van Ness Doesn't Read The Offenses And Diagnose He's More Of A Prodder. Grasping And Moving As He Follows The Movements Of The Quarterback Or Offensive Lineman. Generally, He's Not A Superstar With Pass Rush Technical Aspects Of Pass Rushing. 

Van Ness Likes To Get Right Up Into Guys Leaving Very Little Room To Dislodge And Pursue Anything Outside Of His Gap. If His The Bull Rush Didn't Work Keeping Bull Rushing. Like Me On Mesh Plays In The Saints Play Book Against Novice In Madden, Just Spam Until They Figure It Out. Van Ness's 18.8 Pass Rush Win Rate(According To PFF) Suggest The Strategy Remain "Fool Proof" In College, But Stronger Tackles In The NFL Will Have Something To Add To That Grade. Van Ness Moved All Around The Defensive Line, Left Edge, Right Edge, Outside Edge, And Inside Between Tackles. The Numbers On His Reps Are Incredible. They Speak To An Incredibly Versatile Player But One Still Undefined In What Or Where He's Best Suited. He's Going To Need At Least One Counter To His Bull Rush. 

Nolan Smith, Georgia—If you Thought Last Year's Run Of Absurdly Large Man '(There's An Not So Suggestive Colloquialism I'm Supposed to Add An In Here Somewhere) Performing Absurdly Elevated Numbers In Athletic Testing. Instead, These Only Set The Bar For Clearing For The Next Level Of Defensive Lineman. Expectedly, That Defensive End Has to Emerge From The House In Athens, Georgia. Coming Out Of Georgia Nolan Smith. The NUMBER that Stood Out For Smith His 4.39 40 Time. The Top Deep threat In The Draft T wide Receiver In This Jaylin Hyatt Ran A 4.44. Smith Broke The Mold For "Test Tiatn" His Vert Of 41.5 Finished In The 100th Percentile, and His Broad jump Landed In The 94th Percentile. His Production At Georgia Looks Stellar. Consider How far An Individual Talent Has To Strive On The Best Defense In College Football. Traits Matter More Than Production in The Draft Especially Coming With Your Degree In Defensive Model Economics But 110 tackles, 20 tackles for loss, 12.5 sacks.

Where Smith Doesn't Win, Where He Plays. "He Plays For Motor. Not Always Going To Turn The Corner… he Stands The Guy Up And Waits To Chase The Quarterback."— Diante Lee. 

Many Evaluators have argued that Smith Doesn't Have a Natural Pass Rush "Vibe." In Advantagous Predicaments—Versus Lesser Competition Or Stack Next To His More Impressive Teammate— Smith Showed The Ability To Beat Offensive Lineman From The Jump and Utilized His Superior Athletic To Swerve Around Them and Into The quarterback's Lap. He Definitely Knows His Strengths, and When Those Strengths Were Best Situated, The Speed To Power Doesn't Show Up. His Bend Doesn't Always Work Against The Better Technician. Feet Too Slow, Cant Kick Out Fast Enough, Arms Too Short, Don't Bother. Smith Can "Do" Or Perform In Coverage, But I Don't Know If That's Where You Want Him Full Time. He Doesn't Strike as Someone With Coverage Instinct—You Know That Serene Ability To Feel Where The Weight Of The Coverage Has Rolled—But Someone With Coverage Functionality. On film, You Witness Smith Win His MAtchup With Speed. On The The Field, You Witness Him Win His MatchupWith Power. Sometimes He Wins With Both, but Neither Are Consistent Through And Through. Smith is Compared Favorably To Guys Like Hasson Riddick And Brian Burns, Former Teammates, and Sack Artist With Extraordinary Length and Incredible Bend. He Plays His Best Straddled Next Beefier Defensive Lineman Across From Them, Where Smith, A Slimmer Edge Rusher, Can Put Tackles Outside On An Island And Blend Them.