A sack isn't enough for Dwight Freeney or Robert Mathis. They want the ball. Both DEs have forced a fumble on over half of their sacks. Freeney has 32 fumbles forced on 63 sacks, while Robert Mathis has 28 FF on 47 sacks. That's a lot of fumbles, but how unusual are those kind of ratios? After the jump are the sack to FF ratios for the top 25 players on the active sacks list.
(Fun facts, Dwight Freeney is the youngest player in the top 20 of the active sacks list at 14th. Robert Mathis is the second youngest player in the top 25).
Player | Sacks | FF | FF% | Rank |
Jason Taylor | 118 | 39 | 33.0% | 7 |
Kevin Carter | 102.5 | 17 | 16.6% | 23 |
Willie McGinest | 85 | 16 | 18.8% | 21 |
La'Roi Glover | 83 | 16 | 19.3% | 20 |
Trevor Price | 81 | 11 | 13.8% | 24 |
Leonard Little | 78 | 30 | 38.5% | 4 |
Patrick Kerney | 76.5 | 15 | 19.6% | 19 |
John Abraham | 74.5 | 29 | 38.9% | 3 |
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila | 74.5 | 17 | 22.8% | 17 |
Joey Porter | 72 | 19 | 26.4% | 13 |
Greg Ellis | 71 | 20 | 28.2% | 11 |
Jevon Kearse | 71 | 26 | 36.6% | 5 |
Aaron Schobel | 68 | 18 | 26.5% | 12 |
Dwight Freeney | 63 | 32 | 50.8% | 2 |
Julius Peppers | 59 | 21 | 35.6% | 6 |
Bertrand Berry | 58 | 14 | 24.1% | 15 |
Greg Ellis | 57.5 | 10 | 17.4% | 22 |
Adewale Ogunleye | 56.5 | 14 | 24.8% | 14 |
Darren Howard | 54 | 13 | 24.1% | 16 |
Mike Vrabel | 53 | 15 | 28.3% | 10 |
Vonnie Holliday | 52 | 7 | 13.5% | 25 |
Andre Carter | 49.5 | 11 | 22.2% | 18 |
Terrell Suggs | 48 | 14 | 29.2% | 9 |
Adalius Thomas | 48 | 15 | 32.3% | 8 |
Robert Mathis | 47 | 28 | 59.6% |
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No one is even close to Freeney or Mathis among the league top 25 active pass rushers.
Only Freeney, Mathis and Bears DE Alex Brown (34.5 sacks 15 FF) have more than a 40% forced fumble rate among the league's top 50 sackers.