[h=3]26. Ndamukong Suh, DT, Dolphins[/h] Ndamukong Suh is a victim of his own financial success. The contract Miami handed him means no matter how well he plays, he is never likely to be anything but “overpaid” and squeezing their salary cap. In reality, though, 2015 marked his best season in the NFL, where the only real black mark on his play was a farcical level of penalties (18, or twice as many as any other interior defender). Suh was excellent against the run and generated 60 total pressures and five batted passes, even if it didn’t translate to sack numbers. Suh, at this level, is in the conversation to be the best defensive lineman in the league not named J.J. Watt, but he will always be looked at in the light of his contract, which is rich even for a player at that level.
[h=3]80. Cameron Wake, DE, Dolphins[/h] If you could promise me Cameron Wake would enter the 2016 season as 100 percent of the player we saw before he went down with an Achilles injury, he would be among the first 20 players on this list. However, at his age, and with that severe of an injury, it seems more likely than not that he will experience some kind of drop in production and performance. At his best, he is one of the most athletically destructive pass-rushers in the league, terrorizing blockers that just don’t have the athleticism to match his movements or the recovery ability once he catches them off balance. He has recorded a strong pass-rushing grade every single season of his career, and even a diminished Wake should still be a very good player in 2016.
[h=3]83. Jarvis Landry, WR, Dolphins[/h] Jarvis Landry isn’t just one of the league’s best slot receivers, but he adds some extremely impressive work on special teams to that resume. Landry returns both kicks and punts for Miami, and was our highest-graded return man in the entire league in 2015, scoring one touchdown as a punt return man and doing more work than his average on kicks would suggest. Landry has excellent hands, impressive route-running, and the ability to make people miss in short areas. He forced 40 missed tackles on offense this past season, which is more than many starting running backs, and the most among wide receivers.
[h=3]84. Reshad Jones, S, Dolphins[/h] There may be no better run-defending box-safety in football than Reshad Jones. He led the league by a distance in run-defense grade at the safety position in 2015, and he has now earned strong grades in consecutive seasons. He has also proven to have the ability to generate pressure on the blitz, and the only thing keeping him away from the top half of this list is a relative weakness in coverage. This is a passing league, and for all the good he does in terms of blitzing and run defense, his coverage has not been good enough to put him among the very best players in the league.
