We have to update our standards for pass rush production as college football evolves

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This is an NFL draft class full of pass rushers who lack elite production. In some cases, it's not their fault. They're not being asked to go hunt quarterbacks like they used to. We have to update how we look at pass rush production, plus why if the Packers take a receiver, it won't be at 23; it will be in a trade.

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0:00.0	The college game has changed too much for us to be so focused on pass rush production.
0:06.9	Or at least, we have to rethink what pass rush production actually means.
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1:05.8	We've talked about this pressure as production concept before.
1:09.6	We're not going to do that again today because we've
1:13.3	done it but i thought there was an interesting point made uh on social media from mark old acres
1:20.9	who writes about the packers for cheese head tv about how the packers like players with pressures
1:29.9	not necessarily sacks.
1:33.2	Again, I don't want to relitigate pressure versus production.
1:40.9	But I think Justice Muscatah, who writes for Acme Packing Company, has done a very good job of illustrating why it can be very flawed for us to be even looking at the
1:47.4	pressure numbers of some of these collegiate players because the way offenses have changed
1:54.7	and then the way defenses have changed to combat those offensive changes provides a scant few opportunities to actually
2:05.3	just go rush the passer. I went back and I looked. True pass sets faced last year.
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