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Defensive Stats Added to Player Comparison Finder
Posted by Mike Lynch on August 7, 2018
Over three years ago, we added the Player Comparison Finder tool to the Pro Football Reference Play Index. The tool, which allows you to compare up to six players at a time over a season or span of seasons, originally only allowed you to compare offensive skill position players. However, earlier this week we were discussing freshly-minted Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins and how he compared with the other great safeties of his era and realized it'd be nice to see some data all on one screen. So you can now see things like tackles, interceptions, sacks and forced/recovered fumbles in the Player Comparison Finder. For instance, here's B-Dawk compared with Troy Polamalu and Ed Reed.
Receiving | Sacks & Tackles | Fumbles | Def Interceptions | |||||||||||||||||
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Rk | Player | From | To | CarAV | G | Rec | Yds | TD | Y/R | Lng | Tkl | Ast | Sk | FF | FR | Yds | TD | Int | Yds | TD |
1 | Brian Dawkins* | 1996 | 2011 | 100 | 224 | 1 | 57 | 1 | 57.0 | 57 | 895 | 236 | 26.0 | 36 | 19 | 76 | 1 | 37 | 513 | 2 |
2 | Troy Polamalu | 2003 | 2014 | 94 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 581 | 197 | 12.0 | 14 | 7 | 120 | 2 | 32 | 398 | 3 | |
3 | Ed Reed | 2002 | 2013 | 106 | 174 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 531 | 112 | 6.0 | 11 | 13 | 152 | 2 | 64 | 1590 | 7 |
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