3 current Saints players added to PFF’s All-Decade Top 101

New Orleans Saints players like Emmanuel Sanders, Terron Armstead, and Cameron Jordan made the All-Decade Top 101 from Pro Football Focus.

82. Terron Armstead

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Armstead has a tough rep with Saints fans due to his lengthy injury history, and that’s something the PFF team acknowledged. But few pass rushers can beat him when he’s on the field and playing as close to 100% as possible. Armstead’s career arc has been what every small school draft prospect should hope for, having come up from Arkansas-Pine Bluff to earn All-Pro recognition.

Only injuries keep us from seeing Terron Armstead as the best left tackle in the NFL. He has never lasted a full 16-game NFL season and has fewer than 5,000 snaps in his seven-year career, even including several deep postseason runs. Armstead has never graded below 75.0 over a season and his best years see him in and around the magical 90.0-grade barrier of truly elite players. Only Joe Thomas and Andrew Whitworth have surrendered pressure at a lower rate than Armstead’s 4.1% clip over the course of his career.

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