When we talk about what makes pass-rushers “unblockable,” it’s not really about sacks, hits and hurries, though those are the positive aftereffects. You can lead the league in a pass-rush category with one or two moves if you’re in the right set of defensive schemes, you have other “unblockables” on the line with you and you’re teeing off on undermanned blockers who have other things to deal with on your line. It’s not that sacks, hits and hurries are less-than-revealing arbiters of unblockability; it’s more that they don’t tell the whole story.
Twelve players had 11 or more sacks last season, and seven of those players are not on this list.