The Importance of Pass-Blocking Efficiency in Today's NFL
| June 26, 2017 04:26AM |
THE IMPORTANCE OF PASS-BLOCKING EFFICIENCY IN TODAY’S NFL
PFF's Cam Mellor highlights 2016's best offensive linemen, based on PFF's pass-blocking efficiency measurement.
By CAM MELLOR
In today’s NFL, where offenses are becoming increasingly more pass-happy and quarterbacks and wide receivers are media darlings, just how important is it to have a safe, secure offensive line? Take this for example: each of our top three highest-rated teams in pass-blocking efficiency made it to the playoffs while nine playoff teams finished with a PBE above the league average.
How about this one: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers allowed more than 13 QB pressures in seven games last year, all losses. In the nine game in which they allowed fewer than 13 QB pressures, they won them all.
Pressures tell a big part of the story, and PFF’s pass-blocking efficiency measurement (available in PFF Elite) takes it a bit further, measuring pressures allowed on a per-snap basis with a weighting toward sacks allowed.
Here are the 2016 season’s highest-rated players by position, in terms of pass-blocking efficiency:
LT: Andrew Whitworth, Cincinnati Bengals
Andrew Whitworth
Whitworth had a great season in Cincinnati, his last as a Bengal. He logged 562 pass-blocking snaps, and allowed just 14 total pressures on Bengals quarterbacks for a PBE of 98.0. He went an average of 40.1 pass-blocking snaps between pressures surrendered, the best mark among tackles by almost seven pass-blocking snaps.
Whitworth is no stranger to the top of the list of PBE as he has finished with the highest pass-blocking efficiency in three seasons during his illustrious career and in the top three at his position for seven seasons. His PBE has never dropped below a 95.6, which was still good enough for 15th among all tackles in 2013.
With Whitworth part of the line in Cincinnati, the Bengals made the playoffs six times and finished either first or second in the AFC North seven times. He’ll suit up with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017.
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PFF's Cam Mellor highlights 2016's best offensive linemen, based on PFF's pass-blocking efficiency measurement.
By CAM MELLOR
In today’s NFL, where offenses are becoming increasingly more pass-happy and quarterbacks and wide receivers are media darlings, just how important is it to have a safe, secure offensive line? Take this for example: each of our top three highest-rated teams in pass-blocking efficiency made it to the playoffs while nine playoff teams finished with a PBE above the league average.
How about this one: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers allowed more than 13 QB pressures in seven games last year, all losses. In the nine game in which they allowed fewer than 13 QB pressures, they won them all.
Pressures tell a big part of the story, and PFF’s pass-blocking efficiency measurement (available in PFF Elite) takes it a bit further, measuring pressures allowed on a per-snap basis with a weighting toward sacks allowed.
Here are the 2016 season’s highest-rated players by position, in terms of pass-blocking efficiency:
LT: Andrew Whitworth, Cincinnati Bengals
Andrew Whitworth
Whitworth had a great season in Cincinnati, his last as a Bengal. He logged 562 pass-blocking snaps, and allowed just 14 total pressures on Bengals quarterbacks for a PBE of 98.0. He went an average of 40.1 pass-blocking snaps between pressures surrendered, the best mark among tackles by almost seven pass-blocking snaps.
Whitworth is no stranger to the top of the list of PBE as he has finished with the highest pass-blocking efficiency in three seasons during his illustrious career and in the top three at his position for seven seasons. His PBE has never dropped below a 95.6, which was still good enough for 15th among all tackles in 2013.
With Whitworth part of the line in Cincinnati, the Bengals made the playoffs six times and finished either first or second in the AFC North seven times. He’ll suit up with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017.
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