ATL Atlanta Falcons · DL· #96

Zach Harrison

Age: 25
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 272 lbs
College: Ohio State
Drafted: 2023, No. 75 overall (ATL)
Experience: 4th NFL season

Falcons 2-3Offense 19thDefense 12th

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Overall

104th of 141 edge rushers

Early read

Most of his numbers are still mostly luck; 50 is average

Grades updated Mon, Oct 12, 3:59 PM ETRechecked every few hours on game days

01 / 10

The read

Zach grades about average among edge rushers: 104th of 141 on the average of 1 settled advanced stat over 4 games. The box score reads 8 tackles, 2 solo tackles and 6 assisted tackles.

His highest-ranked settled number is only below the middle: pressures per 100 snaps is 1.0 on 99 snaps, 103rd of 141 among edge rushers (the typical edge rusher is 2.4). Nothing he does stands out from the edge rushers yet.
What holds him back: pressures per 100 snaps is 1.0 on 99 snaps, 103rd of 141 among edge rushers (the typical edge rusher is 2.4).
Game to game on pressures per 100 snaps: best 3.2 in Week 4 against NO, worst 0.0 in Week 5. He beat the typical edge rusher's pressures per 100 snaps in 1 of 4 games.
Season rank slipped: 48th to 40th percentile since Wk 4.
Lately he is playing better. Pressures per 100 snaps is 2.0 over the last 2 games (50 snaps), against 0.0 before that. A few plays could easily explain this. Worth watching, not worth believing yet.
Back in the lineup: He missed 1 game earlier, then played all of the last 2 games, on the field for about 4 of every 10 plays when he plays.
Too early to call: tackles for loss per 100 snaps. After 5 games the gaps between edge rushers on that stat are still mostly chance, so we show it without ranking.

Written from his numbers, not from film. 4 games are behind the season figures.

02 / 10

His team

A player is part of a unit. Here is how the Atlanta Falcons do at his job, and who he shares the room with.

Zach is the Falcons' 4th-best edge rusher by grade (of 4), and the Falcons' pass rush ranks 12th of 32.

Falcons unit

Pass rush: 12th of 32

Sacks per dropback4.9% 24th
Pressure per dropback23% 11th
Quarterback hits per dropback18.8% 6th

Ranked among all 32 teams. See every team.

Atlanta Falcons edge rushers

His room, by grade

1Samson Ebukam DL54
2Yasir Abdullah LB52
3Cameron Thomas DL52
4Zach Harrison DL48

Overall grade, 20 to 80, against all edge rushers in the league. A teammate with too few plays to grade is listed without one.

03 / 10

How he stacks up

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

Pressures per 100 snaps1.0103rd of 141
Tackles for loss per 100 snaps1.0mostly luck so far
Sacks per 100 snaps0.0mostly 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.

04 / 10

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.

Pressures per 100 snaps

The edge rushers just above and below him

101stQue Robinson Broncos1.2
102ndAkheem Mesidor Chargers1.2
103rdZach Harrison Falcons1.0
104thJalen Redmond Vikings1.3
105thMalcolm Rodriguez Lions1.0

The leader is further up the board.

Tackles for loss per 100 snaps

The edge rushers just above and below him

66thPatrick Jones II Panthers1.0
67thJacob Martin Titans1.0
68thZach Harrison Falcons1.0
69thJoshua Uche Dolphins1.0
69thKwity Paye Raiders1.0

The leader is further up the board.

Build and age against the position

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

6'5"

Zach Harrison is taller than 81% of edge rushers.

6'2"low to high · typical 6'4"6'5"

Weight

272 lbs

Zach Harrison is heavier than 77% of edge rushers.

240low to high · typical 260287

Age

Zach Harrison is younger than 70% of edge rushers.

23low to high · typical 2731

05 / 10

How he has progressed

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

Season rank holding near the 27th percentile since Wk 4.

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
2	vs CAR	0.0	25	Not yet
3	vs GB	0.0	19	Not yet
4	vs NO	3.2	31	32nd pct
5	vs BAL	0.0	24	27th 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 25 snaps can swing on a handful of plays. Shaded rows are the recent stretch.

06 / 10

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

1.0

103rd of 141 edge rushers · bottom 28%

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 99 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

1.0

Too early to rank. On 99 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).

07 / 10

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.

Back in the lineup. He missed 1 game earlier, then played all of the last 2 games, on the field for about 4 of every 10 plays when he plays.

out
PIT
38%
CAR
29%
GB
42%
NO
?
BAL

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.

08 / 10

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: 3.2per 100 snapsWeek 4 NO, W 45–241 pressure in 31 snaps
▼ Worst game: 0.0per 100 snapsWeek 5 BAL, L 23–300 pressures in 24 snaps

Tackles for loss per 100 snapsHigher is better

▲ Best game: 5.3per 100 snapsWeek 3 GB, W 35–141 tackle for loss in 19 snaps
▼ Worst game: 0.0per 100 snapsWeek 5 BAL, L 23–300 tackles for loss in 24 snaps

Zach Harrison game by game
Game	Result	Snaps	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	Sacks	Press	Int	Missed	Pressures/100	TFL/100
Wk 2 vs CAR	L 3–34	38%	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Wk 3 vs GB	W 35–14	29%	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	5.3
Wk 4 vs NO	W 45–24	42%	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.2	0.0
Wk 5 vs BAL	L 23–30	–	5	0	5	0	–	–	–	–	0.0	0.0

09 / 10

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.

Zach Harrison box score totals
Stat	Total	Rank
Tackles	8	89th of 141
Solo tackles	2	116th of 141
Assisted tackles	6	42nd of 141
Tackles for loss	1	77th of 141
Sacks	0	87th of 141
Pressures	1	108th of 141
Passes defended	0	51st of 141
Interceptions	0	10th of 141
Missed tackles	0	74th of 141 (most)

10 / 10

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

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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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