Big Year For NFL Secondary Dawgs

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Any dawg fan who has been paying attention to the NFL knows that the UW DBs had a great year. I thought that they might have led the league in interceptions by any school, so I ran the numbers and I was correct! UW DBs led the NFL with 19 interceptions this year, and that’s with arguably their best secondary player (Budda) getting zero.

Washington: 19
Alabama: 18
Florida: 18
LSU: 17
Rutgers: 12
UVA: 12

This list only included corners and safeties.

This is a HUGE deal that we should be promoting the hell out of. Obviously this doesn’t fully capture the value a DB has, but it’s a great stat to show incoming recruits. For the DBs, obviously it shows how you can get developed into an NFL player. For the Linebackers, D-line, and ESPECIALLY the edge guys, it shows how much easier it will be to do your job when you have the best secondary in the country behind you.

I want to get this out into the twitter-sphere, and I can post a basic tweet about it, but I thought someone might be able to put it into a nice graphic. Imo, this is a really good opportunity to market how good our defense and DB development has been.

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UW also led the league in INT touchdowns with 4.

Washington: 4
Alabama: 3
South Carolina: 3

MillennialDoog wrote:

UW also led the league in INT touchdowns with 4.

Washington: 4
Alabama: 3
South Carolina: 3

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AKA the Marcus Peters effect

MillennialDoog wrote:

Any dawg fan who has been paying attention to the NFL knows that the UW DBs had a great year. I thought that they might have led the league in interceptions by any school, so I ran the numbers and I was correct! UW DBs led the NFL with 19 interceptions this year, and that’s with arguably their best secondary player (Budda) getting zero.

Washington: 19
Alabama: 18
Florida: 18
LSU: 17
Rutgers: 12
UVA: 12

This list only included corners and safeties.

This is a HUGE deal that we should be promoting the hell out of. Obviously this doesn’t fully capture the value a DB has, but it’s a great stat to show incoming recruits. For the DBs, obviously it shows how you can get developed into an NFL player. For the Linebackers, D-line, and ESPECIALLY the edge guys, it shows how much easier it will be to do your job when you have the best secondary in the country behind you.

I want to get this out into the twitter-sphere, and I can post a basic tweet about it, but I thought someone might be able to put it into a nice graphic. Imo, this is a really good opportunity to market how good our defense and DB development has been.

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This is GREAT work!

Thanks! It was a huge pain in the ass to match the players college to them. I couldn’t find a good data set that had it.

UW is also about to get some players paid…

Cory Littleton will likely get a very good deal this year as he is a UFA… He signed a one year deal last year and boy was that a smart move. I don’t know if the Rams can afford him but he will be highly sought after this year and should get a big deal from someone, probably around the deal Shaq got (4yrs $54mil, $27mil gtd., maybe more.

Budda has one more year left on his rookie deal, I am not great with how NFL contracts work, assuming NFL teams want to use the full rookie deal and not sign to a new contract before that expires. Either way after next season Budda should be in line to be the top paid safety in the game, if not very close to it.

Kevin is same draft as Budda, glad he had a much better year as he is looking at getting a very nice deal as well after next year now if he keeps playing like he does.

Taylor Rapp is off to a great start… Vita looks like he may be the best NT in the game, he is going to get PAID in a few years. Greg Gaines got a lot of run as a 5th round pick for a good DL, that was a great sign for him too. You love to see it.

Sidney Jones had kind of a tough year, but it seemed like he might have come on at the end of the season? He had a pick and a couple pass breakups the last game. Hopefully he is able to stay healthy and put it all together.

Crazy to think we are about to put Elijah Molden and Keith Taylor into the league in the 2021 draft, and probably McDuffie, Asa, and possibly Cam in 2022.