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Donovan Ezeiruaku

Age
23
Height
6'2"
Weight
255 lbs
College
Boston College
Drafted
2025, No. 44 overall (DAL)
Experience
2nd NFL season
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49

Overall grade

73rd of 132 edge rushers

Typical

about average; 50 is average

Grades updated Rechecked every few hours on game days

The read

The number holding him back is tackles for loss per 100 snaps: 0.4, 94th of 132.

Written from his numbers, not from film. 5 games are behind the season figures.

How he stacks up

Every graded stat at a glance, against all the edge rushers in the league.

  • Pressures per 100 snaps3.455th of 132
  • Missed tackles7%28th of 58
  • Sacks per 100 snaps0.283rd of 132
  • Tackles for loss per 100 snaps0.494th of 132

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.

How he has progressed

Where he has ranked among edge rushers after each week, and every game behind it.

WorstMiddleBestrecent12345Week 2: 54th percentileWeek 3: 50th percentileWeek 4: 69th percentileWeek 5: 59th percentile59th

Season rank holding near the 59th percentile since Wk 2.

The line is his season-to-date rank among players at his position after each week, from 100 (the best) to 0 (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
WeekOpponentThat gamesnapsSeason rank after
1vs NYG4.842–
2vs WAS2.04954th pct
3vs BAL2.05050th pct
4vs HOU7.34169th pct
5vs TB1.95459th pct

One game is a small sample: a single stat over 47 snaps can swing on a handful of plays. Shaded rows are the recent stretch.

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

3.4

55th of 132 edge rushers · top 42%

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 233 games league-wide, teams won 60% of the time when their edge rusher was in the best third on pressures per 100 snaps, and 47% when he was in the worst third.

Last 2 games: 4.2 (95) vs 2.8 before+5.7grade points upWithin the noise

Sample still growing · 236 snaps · true level likely 1.4 to 5.4

Sacks per 100 snaps

Below typical

0.2

83rd of 132 edge rushers · bottom 38%

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 233 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 (47% wins in the best third, 60% in the worst).

Last 2 games: 0.0 (95) vs 0.4 before−2.4grade points downWithin the noise

Sample still growing · 236 snaps · true level likely -0.5 to 0.9

Tackles for loss per 100 snaps

Below typical

0.4

94th of 132 edge rushers · bottom 30%

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 233 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 (53% wins in the best third, 55% in the worst).

Last 2 games: 0.0 (95) vs 0.7 before−4.5grade points downWithin the noise

Sample still growing · 236 snaps · true level likely -0.3 to 1.1

Missed tackles

Typical

7%lower is better

28th of 58 edge rushers · top 49%

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 96 games league-wide, a good or bad game on missed tackles from a edge rusher has not lined up much with his team winning (50% wins in the best third, 41% in the worst).

Last 2 games: 0% (9) vs 11% before+7.8grade points upLeaning that way

Sample still growing · 28 tackle chances · true level likely -2% to 16%

Playing time

He has played in 5 of his team's 5 games with snap counts, on the field for about 72% of the team's defensive plays when he plays.

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.

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.

Donovan Ezeiruaku game by game
GameResultSnapsTklSoloAstTFLSacksPressPBUIntMissedPressures/100TFL/100Missed
Wk 1 vs NYGL 20–2861%94510.520004.82.40%
Wk 2 vs WASW 37–2069%3210010012.00.025%
Wk 3 vs BALL 31–3478%4310010012.00.020%
Wk 4 vs HOUW 34–3075%3120030007.30.00%
Wk 5 vs TBL 16–2475%6240010001.90.00%

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.

Donovan Ezeiruaku box score totals
StatTotalRank
Tackles256th of 132
Solo tackles129th of 132
Assisted tackles135th of 132
Tackles for loss173rd of 132
Sacks0.577th of 132
Pressures816th of 132
Passes defended050th of 132
Interceptions010th of 132
Missed tackles210th of 132

Players with a similar profile

The edge rushers whose grades are closest to his across the same stats. Similar means similar numbers, not the same style of play.

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.

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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.

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