This is the fourth post in this year’s superior athletes series (on DEs, DTs, and LBs), and by now you should know the drill.
First, we look at the college production of a specific position group. For the safeties, we’ll be using a metric based on production points (the metric is explained in detail in the post on linebackers), which looks at the key stats for safeties and weights them with a point system that gives you a single number showing how many production points a player averaged per game.