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Defense and Pass Pressure, 2016

If your kid doesn't look like he has a bright future as a professional quarterback, then perhaps he should learn to love attacking quarterbacks. Pass-rushers are the closest anyone gets to making "quarterback money" in the NFL. Von Miller and Ndamukong Suh each make nearly $20 million per season, and players such as Muhammad Wilkerson, Olivier Vernon, Justin Houston, Fletcher Cox, and J.J. Watt aren't far behind.

Every defense understands the importance of generating pressure. When we looked at the impact of pressure on quarterbacks in 2016 earlier this week, we saw once again that every quarterback performs worse when pressure gets to him.