Most of his numbers are still mostly luck; 50 is average
Grades updated Rechecked every few hours on game days
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The read
Dondrea has played 4 games for 9 tackles, 6 solo tackles and 3 assisted tackles, but every advanced number is still mostly luck at this point, so his grade of 51 is a placeholder rather than a verdict.
Game to game on pressures per 100 snaps: best 7.4 in Week 3 against LAR, worst 0.0 in Week 5. He beat the typical edge rusher's pressures per 100 snaps in 1 of 4 games.
Season rank holding near the 60th percentile since Wk 1.
When he plays he is on the field for about 4 of every 10 plays.
Too early to call: tackles for loss per 100 snaps and missed tackle rate. After 5 games the gaps between edge rushers on those stats are still mostly chance, so we show them without ranking.
Written from his numbers, not from film. 4 games are behind the season figures.
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His team
A player is part of a unit. Here is how the Denver Broncos do at his job, and who he shares the room with.
Dondrea is the Broncos' 3rd-best edge rusher by grade (of 6), and the Broncos' pass rush ranks 10th of 32.
Overall grade, 20 to 80, against all edge rushers in the league. A teammate with too few plays to grade is listed without one.
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How he stacks up
Every graded stat at a glance, against all the edge rushers in the league.
WorstAverageBest
Pressures per 100 snaps431.981st of 141small sample
Tackles for loss per 100 snapsToo early to rank1.9mostly luck so far
Missed tackle rateToo early to rank0%mostly luck so far
Sacks per 100 snapsToo early to rank0.0mostly luck so far
Left is the worst at his job, right is the best, and the line down the middle is average. The bubble is his percentile: 90 means better than nine in ten qualifying edge rushers. Faded bars are still small samples. Outlined bars are stats where, this early, the gaps between players are mostly luck, so they are not ranked yet.
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In the league
Every edge rusher in the league as a dot: pick any two stats and see where he sits, who is around him, and who is ahead.
Who is around him on the leaderboards
His best numbers, with the edge rushers just ahead of and behind him. A number is easier to judge beside the names.
Size and age are not good or bad. They show what kind of edge rusher he is and how he compares physically with the edge rushers in the league.
Height
6'4"
Dondrea Tillman is taller than 56% of edge rushers.
6'2"low to high · typical 6'4"6'5"
Weight
247 lbs
Dondrea Tillman is lighter than 79% of edge rushers.
240low to high · typical 260287
Age
28
Dondrea Tillman is older than 66% of edge rushers.
23low to high · typical 2731
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How he has progressed
Where he has ranked among edge rushers after each week, and every game behind it.
Season rank climbed: 21st to 43rd percentile since Wk 2.
The line is his season-to-date rank among players at his position after each week, from 99 (the best in the league) down to 1 (the worst). It rises when he passes other players, not when he has one big game. Early weeks are noisier because fewer plays are behind them. The shaded weeks are the recent stretch.
Pressures per 100 snaps game by game
Week
Opponent
That game
snaps
Season rank after
1
vs KC
0.0
32
Not yet
2
vs JAX
0.0
18
21st pct
3
vs LAR
7.4
27
47th pct
5
vs LAC
0.0
27
43rd pct
“Not yet” means too little of the season was behind him to rank him fairly against edge rushers. A week-by-week rank needs most of the 80 snaps that grade a full season, so early weeks stay blank for players who see few plays, like kickers. It says nothing about how he played.
One game is a small sample: a single stat over 26 snaps can swing on a handful of plays. Shaded rows are the recent stretch.
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The numbers, in context
Each one against every edge rusher with at least 80 snaps. Right on the strip is better.
Pressures per 100 snaps
●Typical
1.9
81st of 141 edge rushers · bottom 44%
0.3worse to better5.0
Sacks, hits and hurries as Pro Football Reference charts them, for every 100 snaps he plays. A pass rusher is doing his job on plays that never become a sack.
The box score: A sack total misses most of what a rusher does and depends on how many snaps he plays.
Does it show up in winning? Across 276 games league-wide, a good or bad game on pressures per 100 snaps from a edge rusher has not lined up much with his team winning (58% wins in the best third, 50% in the worst).
Sacks per 100 snaps
Mostly luck so far
0.0
Too early to rank. On 104 snaps, luck still decides who is on top of edge rushers.
0.0worse to better1.3
Sacks for every 100 snaps he plays. Rare, so it swings fast; pressures are the steadier read.
The box score: A sack total ignores how many snaps he played.
Does it show up in winning? Across 276 games league-wide, a good or bad game on sacks per 100 snaps from a edge rusher has not lined up much with his team winning (48% wins in the best third, 54% in the worst).
Tackles for loss per 100 snaps
Mostly luck so far
1.9
Too early to rank. On 104 snaps, luck still decides who is on top of edge rushers.
0.0worse to better2.2
Plays he ends behind the line of scrimmage, for every 100 snaps.
The box score: Tackles for loss are counted, but never against the snaps he played.
Does it show up in winning? Across 276 games league-wide, a good or bad game on tackles for loss per 100 snaps from a edge rusher has not lined up much with his team winning (59% wins in the best third, 51% in the worst).
Missed tackle rate
Mostly luck so far
0%lower is better
Too early to rank. On 10 tackle chances, luck still decides who is on top of edge rushers.
20%worse to better0%
The share of his tackle chances he missed. Fewer is better.
The box score: Tackle totals reward the player who gets the most chances, not the one who finishes them.
Does it show up in winning? Across 97 games league-wide, a good or bad game on missed tackle rate from a edge rusher has not lined up much with his team winning (47% wins in the best third, 41% in the worst).
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Contract & cap
Dondrea Tillman's deal is 1 years and $1.1M, $1.1M a year.
Per year
$1.1M
average over the deal
Cap hit, 2026
$1.1M
0.4% of the $301.2M cap
Guaranteed
$0K
0% of the total, at signing
Runs through
–
1-year deal, final year not tracked
126th-highest paid of the 138 edge rushers we track
Each dot is one of the edge rushers on the teams we track, placed by what he is paid a year.
Pay against play
Early read
Among the 138 edge rushers we have a grade and a contract for, Dondrea Tillman is 55th on the field and 126th in pay. His grade is still an early read, so this says nothing yet about whether his pay is fair.
On the field (overall grade)55 of 138
In pay126 of 138
Ranks are among the 138 edge rushers on the teams we track who have both a grade and a contract. A rank near the right of a bar is better play or higher pay.
Contract figures as of 2026-10-12, read from public cap sites (StickToTheModel team cap pages and OverTheCap contracts list and player pages) into a file we keep by hand, for all 32 teams. A deal signed, cut or reworked since may differ, and cap hits are rounded to $0.1M.
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Playing time
He has played in 3 of his team's 4 games with snap counts, on the field for about 36% of the team's defensive plays when he plays.
46%
KC
31%
JAX
31%
LAR
out
SF
?
LAC
Each column is a game: the share of his team's defensive snaps he played. 80% means about 8 of every 10 plays. “Out” means he did not play; a question mark means snap counts are not posted yet. Shaded games are the recent stretch.
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Game by game
Every game this season: how it ended for his team, how much he played, his box score, and the advanced numbers from that one game. One game is a small sample, so read the right-hand columns as a snapshot, not his level. A dash means that number is not in yet (charting posts a day or two after a game), not a zero.
Pressures per 100 snapsHigher is better
▲ Best game
7.4per 100 snapsWeek 3 LAR, W 30–262 pressures in 27 snaps
▼ Worst game
0.0per 100 snapsWeek 5 LAC, W 23–170 pressures in 27 snaps
Missed tackle rateLower is better
▲ Best game (lowest)
0%of his tackle chances missedWeek 1 KC, L 10–310 missed tackles on 6 tackle chances
▼ Worst game (highest)
0%of his tackle chances missedWeek 3 LAR, W 30–260 missed tackles on 2 tackle chances
Week 5 is not counted here yet. The charting and snap counts behind this number post a day or two after the game.
Dondrea Tillman game by game
Game
Result
Snaps
Tkl
Solo
Ast
TFL
Sacks
Press
PBU
Int
Missed
Pressures/100
TFL/100
Missed
Wk 1vs KC
L 10–31
46%
5
4
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
3.1
0%
Wk 2vs JAX
W 20–13
31%
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0%
Wk 3vs LAR
W 30–26
31%
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
7.4
0.0
0%
Wk 5vs LAC
W 23–17
–
3
2
1
1
–
–
0
–
–
0.0
3.7
–
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The box score
The traditional totals, with where each ranks among edge rushers. A total rewards volume, which is why the advanced numbers above matter.
Ranks are among players at the same job who have enough plays to be graded. Grades and rankings come from play-by-play, charting and snap-count data, so they cannot see blocking, route running or assignments. See how the grades work.
Data: nflverse play-by-play, CC BY 4.0. Also FTN charting, Pro Football Reference advanced stats, snap counts and injury reports, all through nflverse. Calculations and charts by Raiders Rundown.
