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#15 Overall, Chris Jones, Kansas City Chiefs, Defensive Tackle, #7 Defensive Lineman/Linebacker: Pass Rusher2024 Pre-Season Rank #15, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #58, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #100. Peak Period 2020-24. When you think of the recent success of… -
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Safeties: Steve Atwater (2020), Brian Dawkins (2018), John Lynch (2021), Troy Polamalu (2020),
Note that in 2019, all Defensive Backs were grouped together, and were Champ Bailey, Brian Dawkins, Ty Law, Ed Reed, and Aeneas Williams. Cornerbacks and Safeties were split in 2020 but kept at four in both categories to keep everything modern. With the addition of Lynch, we now have four modern Safeties, resulting in significant changes.
Here are the statistics that we are using based on the last group of Safeties to enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame:
- Games Played: 182.5
- Approximate Value: 100.3
- Approximate Value per Games Played: 0.6041
- Games Started: 166
- Approximate Value per Games Started: 0.6848
- Approximate Value per Five-Year Peak: 61
- Approximate Value’s Best Five Results: 65
- Pro Bowls: 7.3
- First Team All-Pros*: 3
- Interceptions: 30
- Interceptions Five-Year Peak: 15.5
- Combined Tackles: 913
- Combined Tackles Five-Year Peak: 465.8
- Super Bowl Wins: 1.3
- Super Bowl Appearances: 1.5
*This is an aggregate of the Top Five finishes (5th = 1, 4th = 2, 3rd = 3, 2nd = 4th, 1st = 5)
**This is a reminder that the All-Pros we use are from the AP.
#85 Overall, Marshon Lattimore, Washington Commanders, #8 Cornerback
2024 Pre-Season Rank #97, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #98, 2022 Pre-Season Rank: #106, 2021 Pre-Season Rank: #125, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #138. Peak Period 2017-21
The 2017 Defensive Rookie of the Year was a Pro Bowl Selection four times in his first five seasons, but his last three years have been riddled with injury, and Lattimore’s momentum has been derailed. He has a lot more work to do in the next few seasons to get back on track, but he will now do so as a Washington Commander. Lattimore could very well be at the crossroads.
#48 Overall, Darius Slay, Pittsburgh Steelers, #3 Cornerback
2024 Pre-Season Rank #58, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #70, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #101, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #125, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #125. Peak Period: 2017-21
The last three seasons of Darius Slay’s career in Detroit were phenomenal (2017-19), but they came after three average years and a rookie year in which he only played four Games. Slay joined the Philadelphia Eagles in 2020, where he looked for a shot at the Super Bowl, and last year, “Big Play” Slay got it in Philadelphia’s triumphant win over the Kansas City Chiefs. With the Eagles, Slay had another three-year streak of Pro Bowls (2021-23) and proved he still belonged in the upper echelon of Cornerbacks.
Slay enters 2025 with his third team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and is the active leader in Passes Defended (160, 7th All-Time), and should have some good football left in him to make that Hall of Fame push.
#20 Overall, Jalen Ramsey, Pittsburgh Steelers, #1 Cornerback
2024 Pre-Season Rank #20, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #23, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #35, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #54, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #73.
The Rams believed that Jalen Ramsey was the best Cornerback in the NFL, and they went all in to get him during the 2019 season when he was disgruntled in Jacksonville. Ramsey was the top CB in 2020, adding a second First Team All-Pro, a fourth Pro Bowl, and posting a career-high in Approximate Value (15). Currently, over the AV/G, Ramsey added another Pro Bowl, First Team All-Pro, and, more importantly, a Super Bowl in 2021, proving the Rams right. Ramsey claimed a sixth Pro Bowl in 2022 and a seventh with his third team in Miami, which was impressive considering he only played ten games in 2023.
The knock on Ramsey is that he is now on his fourth team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he is still excellent, and he begins this year supplanting the now-retired Patrick Peterson as the highest-ranked Cornerback on the Notinhallloffame Active Football Monitor.