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A Sunday thread about sacks.
If we examine the top ten sack performances by years on league, we see that it takes pass rushers a year or so to hit their peak, but it happens quickly. Then they're on the top of their game through Season 6, then decline markedly in Seasons 7 through 9. Then it goes down from there, per the table below and accompanying graph.
Years In League Top Ten Players' Sack Total 1 127.5 2 178.0 3 167.5 4 183.0 5 172.5 6 182.5 7 160.5 8 162.5 9 155.0 10 136.0 11 138.0 12 123.0 13 111.5 14 111.0 15 80.5 16 30.0 17 11.5 18 12.5 19 11.5 20 0.0 If you're curious, here are the top ten sack totals by years in league. (The league only began recording sacks in 1982.) The things I notice on this list are that guys who dominate early in their career typically have good careers. There aren't a lot of short-term wonders in the first 6 years. Around Year 8 or so, you start seeing guys from the Hall of Pretty Good show up - the guys who were decent players who happened to have long careers. Overall, it's an interesting list, and I think it shows that talent reigns supreme among sack leaders. You don't have a lot of guys making this list who weren't effective over the course of their careers. Year 1 1 Jevon Kearse 14.5 2 Aldon Smith 14 3 Dwight Freeney 13 4 Reggie White* 13 5 Leslie O'Neal 12.5 6 Simeon Rice 12.5 7 Mark Anderson 12 8 Charles Haley* 12 9 Julius Peppers 12 10 Terrell Suggs 12 Year 2 1 J.J. Watt 20.5 2 Derrick Thomas* 20 3 Aldon Smith 19.5 4 Von Miller 18.5 5 Reggie White* 18 6 Richard Dent* 17.5 7 Shawne Merriman 17 8 Jason Pierre-Paul 16.5 9 Vic Beasley 15.5 10 Khalil Mack 15 11 Bruce Smith* 15 Year 3 1 Reggie White* 21 2 Robert Quinn 19 3 Andre Tippett* 18.5 4 Richard Dent* 17 5 Dwight Freeney 16 6 Sean Jones 15.5 7 Leonard Marshall 15.5 8 Mike Merriweather 15 9 Adewale Ogunleye 15 10 Lee Williams 15 Year 4 1 Justin Houston 22 2 J.J. Watt 20.5 3 DeMarcus Ware 20 4 Tim Harris 19.5 5 Reggie White* 18 6 Elvis Dumervil 17 7 Kevin Greene* 16.5 8 Simeon Rice 16.5 9 Pat Swilling 16.5 10 Andre Tippett* 16.5 Year 5 1 Chris Doleman* 21 2 Mark Gastineau 19 3 Keith Millard 18 4 J.J. Watt 17.5 5 Kevin Carter 17 6 La'Roi Glover 17 7 Kevin Greene* 16.5 8 Charles Haley* 16 9 Aaron Kampman 15.5 10 Peter Boulware 15 11 Dexter Manley 15 12 Dana Stubblefield 15 Year 6 1 Mark Gastineau 22 2 Lawrence Taylor* 20.5 3 Bruce Smith* 19 4 Dexter Manley 18.5 5 Jason Taylor* 18.5 6 Bryce Paup 17.5 7 Leslie O'Neal 17 8 Pat Swilling 17 9 Warren Sapp* 16.5 10 Doug Betters 16 11 James Harrison 16 Year 7 1 DeMarcus Ware 19.5 2 Clyde Simmons 19 3 Tim Harris 17 4 Michael Sinclair 16.5 5 Simeon Rice 15.5 6 Reggie White* 15 7 Bertrand Berry 14.5 8 Ezra Johnson 14.5 9 Julius Peppers 14.5 10 Art Still 14.5 Year 8 1 Jared Allen 22 2 Jason Babin 18 3 Elvis Dumervil 17 4 Simon Fletcher 16 5 John Randle* 15.5 6 Lawrence Taylor* 15.5 7 Robert Porcher 15 8 Simeon Rice 15 9 Chris Doleman* 14.5 10 Bruce Smith* 14 11 Reggie White* 14 Year 9 1 Michael Strahan* 22.5 - Note that figure is misleading since Brett Favre took a dive. 2 Fred Dean* 17.5 3 John Abraham 16.5 4 Lawrence Taylor* 15 5 Patrick Kerney 14.5 6 Mario Williams 14.5 7 Bruce Smith* 14 8 Terrell Suggs 14 9 Simon Fletcher 13.5 10 Leonard Little 13 11 Greg Townsend 13 12 Reggie White* 13 Year 10 1 Joey Porter 17.5 2 Kevin Greene* 14 3 Simeon Rice 14 4 Jason Taylor* 13.5 5 William Fuller 13 6 Sean Jones 13 7 Trevor Pryce 13 8 Pat Swilling 13 9 Lorenzo Alexander 12.5 10 Greg Ellis 12.5 11 Randy White* 12.5 Year 11 1 Robert Mathis 19.5 2 Michael Strahan* 18.5 3 John Abraham 13 4 William Fuller 13 5 Too Tall Jones 13 6 Richard Dent* 12.5 7 Jacob Green 12.5 8 Mike Vrabel 12.5 9 Reggie White* 12 10 Dave Butz 11.5 11 Rickey Jackson* 11.5 12 Julius Peppers 11.5 Year 12 1 Trace Armstrong 16.5 2 Kevin Greene* 14.5 3 Rickey Jackson* 13.5 4 Bruce Smith* 13.5 5 Terrell Suggs 12 6 Gary Jeter 11.5 7 Chris Doleman* 11 8 John Randle* 11 9 Warren Sapp* 10 10 John Abraham 9.5 Year 13 1 Bruce Smith* 14 2 Chris Doleman* 12 3 Rickey Jackson* 11.5 4 Michael Strahan* 11.5 5 Reggie White* 11 6 Kevin Greene* 10.5 7 Steve McMichael 10.5 8 Jack Youngblood* 10.5 9 John Abraham 10 10 Too Tall Jones 10 11 Tony McGee 10 Year 14 1 Reggie White* 16 2 Chris Doleman* 15 3 Kevin Greene* 15 4 John Abraham 11.5 5 Julius Peppers 10.5 6 Bruce Smith* 10 7 Jack Youngblood* 9.5 8 Dwight Freeney 8 9 Terrell Suggs 8 10 George Martin 7.5 Year 15 1 Kevin Greene* 12 2 Rickey Jackson* 9.5 3 Clay Matthews 9 4 Michael Strahan* 9 5 Chris Doleman* 8 6 Julius Peppers 7.5 7 Bruce Smith* 7 8 Jason Taylor* 7 9 Monte Coleman 6 10 Reggie White* 5.5 Year 16 1 Bruce Smith* 10 2 Clay Matthews 5.5 3 Brian Dawkins 3 4 London Fletcher 2 5 Ray Lewis 2 6 Bill Romanowski 2 7 Charles Woodson 2 8 Hardy Nickerson 1.5 9 Ronde Barber 1 10 Dave Butz 1 11 Albert Lewis 1 12 Junior Seau* 1 13 Keith Traylor 1 Year 17 1 Bruce Smith* 5 2 Jeff Zgonina 2.5 3 Ray Lewis 1 4 Clay Matthews 1 5 Junior Seau* 1 6 Charles Woodson 1 Year 18 1 Bruce Smith* 9 2 Junior Seau* 3.5 Year 19 1 Clay Matthews 6.5 2 Bruce Smith* 5 Year 20 0 Last edited by Rain Man; 05-14-2017 at 06:21 PM.. |
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