Pro Football Focus didn’t list DeForest Buckner on their top-101 players list and, of course, it contributed to the narrative that Buckner gets no respect. Buckner got the next best thing: acknowledgment that he was one of the best players kept off it.
PFF went over the top-10 players that didn’t make their list and Buckner, of course gets a nod:
Earning 81.0-plus grades in each of the past two seasons, San Francisco 49ers’ DeForest Buckner is quietly becoming a productive, consistent force for the team’s defense at just 24 years young.