NFL Advanced Stats Leaders — Pressure, Coverage, After Contact

Defense QB Pressure After Contact

QB Under Pressure

Most Pressured QBs

PRESS

Dropbacks under duress — the offensive lines (and scrambles) that left QBs running for their lives.

#	Player	Team	Pos	PRESS
1	Justin Herbert	LAC	—	195
2	Caleb Williams	CHI	—	176
3	Cam Ward	TEN	—	171
4	Drake Maye	NE	—	167
5	Jacoby Brissett	ARI	—	151
6	Jared Goff	DET	—	150
7	Trevor Lawrence	JAX	—	143
8	Bo Nix	DEN	—	143
9	Sam Darnold	SEA	—	142
10	Bryce Young	CAR	—	142
11	Matthew Stafford	LA	—	140
12	Dak Prescott	DAL	—	127
13	Geno Smith	LV	—	119
14	C.J. Stroud	HOU	—	119
15	Patrick Mahomes	KC	—	118

Most Sacked QBs

SACKS

When pressure became a sack.

#	Player	Team	Pos	SACKS
1	Drake Maye	NE	—	68
2	Justin Herbert	LAC	—	60
3	Geno Smith	LV	—	55
4	Cam Ward	TEN	—

What These Mean

GLOSSARY

These come from Pro Football Reference's film charting — analysts re-watching every snap and crediting pressures, broken tackles, and coverage by hand. It's the closest the public gets to All-22 film study in a spreadsheet. Charted, not modeled: no expected values, just what the tape showed.

QB Pressures: Plays where a pass rusher beat his block and disrupted the quarterback — a hurry, a hit, or a sack. The truest measure of a rusher's impact, well beyond the sack column.
Sacks: Quarterback takedowns behind the line on a pass attempt, as charged by PFR's film review. Charted independently of the official scorer, so totals can differ slightly from the box score.
Yards per Target Allowed: Receiving yards surrendered divided by passes thrown at the receiver this defender was covering. The cleanest read on coverage — a low number means the throw rarely paid off.
Completion % Allowed: Share of targets into this defender's coverage that were caught. Lower means tighter coverage, or a defender quarterbacks simply avoid.
Missed-Tackle %: Missed tackles as a share of all tackle attempts (made plus missed). A closer's stat — the lower it is, the more often the ball carrier goes down on first contact.
Yards After Contact (YAC): Rushing yards gained after the first defender makes contact. Pure physicality and balance — yards the blocking didn't give him.

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