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PFF ranks Chiefs’ Justin Reid at bottom of ‘all-around’ NFL safeties

PFF’s Sam Monson is nonetheless predicting Reid will improve while playing in Kansas City.

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On Thursday, Pro Football Focus writer Sam Monson published a ranking of NFL safeties for 2022.

In these kinds of lists, tiers is a new buzzword — and Monson used them to separate 32 of the league’s safeties into four different types of players: those who are used in coverage as free safeties, those who are used in the box as strong safeties, those who are used in the “matchup slot” — and finally, those used in an all-around role.