2 Broncos players make PFF's list of top NFL players over last 25 years
2 Broncos players make PFF's list of top NFL players over last 25 years
Pro Football Focus recently released their list of the 25 best NFL players from the past 25 years, and two Denver Broncos players made the list: outside linebacker Von Miller and kicker Matt Prater. Fellow Broncos Peyton Manning, Evan Mathis and Champ Bailey were named as honorable mentions, but Miller's (95.1 PFF career grade) and Prater's (95.1 PFF career grade) scores helped take the cake.
PFF's Jonathon Macri discusses what made Miller and Prater a cut above the rest.
'The honor of the most career sacks (139) in the PFF era also happens to belong to the highest-graded edge defender of all time," Macri wrote on PFF. "Miller's career spans 13 seasons, exactly 10,000 defensive snaps, and is still going. He owns nine seasons with at least a 90.0 PFF overall grade — by far the most at the position, as the next closest player (Khalil Mack) has six. Miller joins Nick Bosa as the only edge defender to rank in the top five in career pressure rate (16.5%), career pass-rush win rate (16.7%) and career PFF pass-rush grade (93.9).'
Miller won Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos following the 2015 season. Prater earned an All-Pro nod and Pro Bowl selection during his seven-year tenure in Denver.
'Prater has logged more than 700 combined field goals and extra point attempts in his NFL career with a 97% accuracy rate on extra points and an 86% accuracy rate on field goals, leading to a top-two field goal/extra point grade (95.1)," Macri wrote on PFF. "Prater is one of just three kickers in the PFF era with at least 80 field goal attempts of less than 30 yards who never missed a kick from that range. He is the only kicker to fit in that cohort and have at least 90% accuracy from 30-39 yards and at least 75% accuracy from 40-49 yards and 50-plus yards.'
Congrats to both Miller and Prater on this well-deserved recognition. As for Bailey being left off the list ... let's just say an honorable mention nod is not sufficient. But that's a topic for another day.
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