2022 NFL safety rankings and tiers - PFF
www.pff.com › news › nfl-safety-rankings-tiers-2022May 26, 2022 · Strong safety used to be a coveted specialty role in the NFL, encompassing those who played more like auxiliary linebackers and patrolled the box, defending the run and covering short zones underneath. Now, those players are linebackers, particularly in sub packages, and the league has come to covet other skills for strong safeties. Even the players on this list need to have more strings to their bow than simply stuffing the run from heavy formations.