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(12-16-2020, 09:30 AM)Au165 Wrote: Again, sacks are often uncontrollable to an extent. Maxx Crosby had a bunch of sacks last season but people quickly pointed to the fact all but two of his sacks guys basically just ran into him, he didn't "win" any matchups. I am not making it up, teams look at pressures Lawson has a ton of them and so he will get paid.

While I appreciate PFF, they have Clowney as the 16th player on their FA list. The league has told us what they think about Clowney as Houston didn't want to pay him, Seattle didn't want to pay him, No one in FA wanted to commit to him and now Tennessee doesn't appear to want to pay him. Scroll a little further and Jameis Winston at 18 kind of puts the nail in the coffin for me on this list. You have a guy who again, no one wanted to pay last year in FA, who wasn't even the 2nd on the Saints depth chart being the 18th best FA? Also, Ryan Fitzpatrick at 22? lol. 

If you need to see how bad this list really is, check out their number 15 FA Cam Newton...who they predict the Bengals sign to a 1 year 20 million dollar contract. Doesn't seem like the guy making this list really is connected to any sort of FA realities if you read through a lot of their predicitons.

Crosby is an interesting case, similar to the "Gil-,Dong sack" criticism of former Steelers edge Jason Gildon.  Still, he had 10 last year and 6 so far this year so the guy is either really lucky or really disciplined in his assignments.

Lawson is tough to quantify simply because most edges that generate lots of pressures also have the sack #'s to go along with it.  I can't think of a single edge that has been paid huge money based off high pressures with a poor sack total.  It's also a bad off-season for his agent to push that point, as there's added pressure on GM's to keep contracts down with the cap dropping.

FWIW, PFF actually has Clowney graded higher than Lawson.  Clowney's issues are more that he's picky about who he wants to play for as was trying to become the highest paid defender in the league, which he shouldn't be.  Just like draft boards, QB's are always going to be overrated based on the importance of the position.