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Will McDonald IV

Age: 27
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 245 lbs
College: Iowa State
Drafted: 2023, No. 15 overall (NYJ)
Experience: 4th NFL season

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Overall grade

89th of 132 edge rushers

Below typical

about average; 50 is average

Grades updated Mon, Oct 12, 3:02 AM ETRechecked every few hours on game days

The read

Will grades about average among edge rushers so far, with no number far from the middle.

Lately he is playing worse. Pressures per 100 snaps is 0.0 over the last 2 games (88 snaps), against 6.0 before that. The change points one way, but a few plays could still explain it.

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.

Sacks per 100 snaps0.764th of 132small sample
Tackles for loss per 100 snaps0.777th of 132small sample
Pressures per 100 snaps2.284th 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.

Season rank slipped: 88th to 38th 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
Week	Opponent	That game	snaps	Season rank after
1	vs TEN	12.0	25	–
2	vs GB	0.0	25	88th pct
3	vs DET	0.0	22	74th pct
4	vs CHI	0.0	66	38th pct

One game is a small sample: a single stat over 35 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

Below typical

2.2

84th of 132 edge rushers · bottom 38%

0.5worse to better5.5

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.

Sacks per 100 snaps

Typical

0.7

64th of 132 edge rushers · top 49%

0.0worse to better1.7

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).

Tackles for loss per 100 snaps

Typical

0.7

77th of 132 edge rushers · bottom 43%

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 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).

Playing time

He has played in 4 of his team's 4 games with snap counts, on the field for about 49% of the team's defensive plays when he plays.

50%
TEN
42%
GB
34%
DET
71%
CHI
?
CLE

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.

Will McDonald IV game by game
Game	Result	Snaps	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	Sacks	Press	Missed	Pressures/100	TFL/100
Wk 1 vs TEN	W 23–10	50%	1	1	0	1	1	3	0	12.0	4.0
Wk 2 vs GB	L 17–20	42%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Wk 3 vs DET	L 24–31	34%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Wk 4 vs CHI	L 12–23	71%	5	2	3	0	0	0	1	0.0	0.0
Wk 5 vs CLE	W 17–12	–	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	–	–

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.

Will McDonald IV box score totals
Stat	Total	Rank
Tackles	9	69th of 132
Solo tackles	5	57th of 132
Assisted tackles	4	76th of 132
Tackles for loss	1	73rd of 132
Sacks	1	46th of 132
Pressures	3	79th of 132
Passes defended	0	50th of 132
Interceptions	0	10th of 132
Missed tackles	1	28th of 132

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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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