Edge rushers are pretty well understood in 2022. If you scout from stats and testing numbers alone, you can find the top prospects in a given draft class fairly easily. Pressures and athleticism basically explain the position, and the best prospects have a heaping helping of both.
But trying to explain the contextual difference between prospects can muddy the water a bit again. Consider the case presented by Football Outsiders below concerning Aidan Hutchinson and Travon Walker.
Both are very good athletes, though Walker is truly exceptional in that regard. Hutchinson, though, produced more pressures by volume (70 pressures to Walker’s 32) and at a higher rate (on 20% of his pass rushes versus just 9.