This is across the entire NFL.
1. Byron Maxwell: 47.8 (On about 500 snaps, so not a small sample.)
2. Richard Sherman: 51.5 (on about 1000 snaps.)
3. Logan Ryan: 54.8
4. Alterraun Verner: 55.8
5. Trumaine McBride: 57.4
13. Walter Thurmond: 67.4
14. Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie: 67.8
22. Aqib Talib: 72.3
38. Darrelle Revis: 81.4 (Dropped from top 5 last week on strength of terrible final game.)
It's hard to overstate how incredible this is. We're excited to potentially be adding an MVP caliber offensive weapon to the offense. Several games ago, we added an apparently DPOY caliber corner to the defense.
Corners don't get DPOYs very much--because the best ones don't get stats opportunities like other LBs and DEs--but they should. Sherman should win it this year, though he may not. Corners get paid like the most important players on defense because they are that valuable.
In a just world, I think a corner should occasionally win MVP. Sherman would be a strong candidate this year. In the year and a half before Sherman started, Seattle allowed an average of ~90 passer rating. As soon as he started, that dropped to ~70 and has remained there ever since. Imagine if you acquired a QB who averaged 110 passer rating to replace one who averaged 90. Your odds of winning a Super Bowl just went way up, right?Passer rating differential wins games and championships.
With Maxwell, Seattle is even better. With Maxwell, our average defensive passer rating has dropped to ~63. Remember that marginal improvements are always much more difficult to achieve. Over the last 3 games, the only numbers I have off-hand, Seattle's defensive passer rating is ~46[1]. I bet it's something ridiculously low for all the games Maxwell's started in. Seattle's already league leading scoring defense has dropped to ~10 per game over the last 5 games, in a year when scoring is up across the league. That didn't happen by accident. Maxwell is the real deal.
[1]
http://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/op ... ser-rating
