Playing around in Excel, I took a few DE careers, then adjusted it to get the following table normalized for a 16-game season.
Here's what the scribble means:
Tackles mean total tackles, not solo. Interceptions, Forced Fumbles, Passes Deflected. Then I figured each one of those is a "Ball Hawk" - an interruption of some kind, a busted play by the DE. So I added 16-game INT's, FFum's, and PD's to get the "Ball Hawk" figure. So that:
INT+FFum+PD = Ball Hawk
I sorted highest to lowest on total tackles, because a tackle is involvement, getting to the ball. Peppers looks like middle-of the road top-tier until you add up the ball-hawk figure. Note that the taller DE's have more PD's and INT's. Freeney has a low PD figure, but is high on forced fumbles. A shorter guy will be closer to the running ball, a taller guy closer to the flying pass.
Just for fun I added a normalized 16-game Charles Johnson and Everette Brown's normalized numbers at Florida State. Enjoy.
By the way, Strahan set his 22.5-sack season record when he was 30. Peppers is 29 this year and turns 30 in January. Just data.
| Per 16 Games | |||||||
| Careers/DE's | Gm | Tkls | Sack | Int | FFum | PD | Ball Hawk |
| Michael Strahan | 16 | 67 | 11.1 | 0.32 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 5.1 |
| Jason Taylor | 16 | 62 | 10.9 | 0.63 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 12.0 |
| Aaron Schobel | 16 | 60 | 9.5 | 0.28 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 6.6 |
| Jared Allen | 16 | 60 | 12.1 | 0.21 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 9.5 |
| John Abraham | 16 | 55 | 12.4 | 0 | 4.6 | 1.8 | 6.4 |
| Julius Peppers | 16 | 53 | 11.0 | 0.62 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 10.9 |
| Patrick Kearney | 16 | 52 | 9.0 | 0.35 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 5.1 |
| Simeon Rice | 16 | 46 | 11.9 | 0.49 | 3.3 | 5.7 | 9.5 |
| Javon Kearse | 16 | 45 | 10.4 | 0.14 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 9.1 |
| Dwight Freeney | 16 | 41 | 12.8 | 0 | 6.4 | 1.8 | 8.2 |
| Charles Johnson | 16 | 33 | 8.0 | 0 | 1.3 | 9.3 | |
| E Brown-FSU | 16 | 48 | 18.7 |
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