3. Danielle Hunter, Minnesota Vikings
With his second straight 14.5-sack season, Hunter became the youngest player in NFL history (or at least since 1982, when the sack became an official statistic) to record at least 50 sacks in his career. He did so at age 25 with room to spare — Hunter has 54.5 regular-season sacks and 3.5 more takedowns in the postseason. Per Football Outsiders, he’s also one of four players to finish in the Top 10 in quarterback hurries in each of the last two seasons — and he’s at least three years younger than any of the others (Cameron Jordan, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Aaron Donald). Not bad for a guy who lasted until the third round of the 2015 draft as an athletically superior but very raw prospect. Now, he’s filled in all the blanks. Hunter has the straight-line speed to turn himself into nightmare fuel for any tackle who’s slow off the snap, his inside move is a work of art, and he has the athleticism to roll step-for-step with the most mobile of quarterbacks. Last season, he finished third in the league with 97 total pressures, adding in 40 stops for good measure, and it seems that the arrow is still pointing up.