07-02-2019, 01:39 PM
(07-02-2019, 12:05 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Been saying for years that Dennard should have been asked to put on 10 pounds of muscle and played safety. Zero ball instincts but a good tackler/run defender? That's a box safety all day long.
Meanwhile 5 years/68 games into his career at CB, he has only 17 Pdef and 3 INT.
Could have possibly been a player of note if he was put in a position to succeed rather than being labeled "the best rookie corner I have ever seen" to mediocre-to-subpar results.
Thank goodness we have much more advanced stats to rate CBs than PD and INT. And people who look at these advanced metrics already consider Dennard a "player of note". Fans who just look at INTs will think that Patrick Peterson is not a very good CB.
In 2017 PFF ranked him as the 32nd best CB overall and Bleacher Report had him as the #9 slot corner.
Last year Football Outsiders ranked Dennard 29th (out of 85 qualified CBs) in yards allowed per target.
Those are far from "mediocre to subpar results"
