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One study last year had him facing multiple blockers 83% of the time.
Here's some more AD stats from this year:
He's tied for 2nd on the all-time list of pass rushers in NFL history with 1.25 sacks per game on avg.
Being double-teamed this year at a 70% rate compares to the player facing the SECOND most double-teams at 46% (JJ Watt).
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Zoltán Buday@PFF_Zoltan
Yes, Aaron Donald leads the NFL with 10 sacks, but what’s even crazier is that 7 of those have come within 2.5 seconds from the snap, no other player has more than 4 such sacks.
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from PFF: [
www.profootballfocus.com]
While they have earned the fifth most pressures of any defense in the NFL, over a third of them have come from Aaron Donald alone. The defensive tackle is playing the best football of his entire career and
his 28.4 percent win rate as a pass-rusher would be the highest we’ve seen from any player – interior or edge – for a single season.
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i struggle to get my head around these stats. just incredible.
if a defensive player will ever intercept a hand off, it will be donald. i say that because i've seen him come painfully close at least 5 times. none of them this year. as improbable as a hand off interception is, if donald pulls it off, it may be more probable that he takes it to the house for a pic 6.