5. Shaquil Barrett, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Barrett was the winner of 2019’s “From Out of Nowhere” award following his signing with the Buccaneers before the 2019 season, amassing a league-high 19.5 sacks after five seasons with the Broncos in which he struggled for starting reps and put up just 14 total takedowns. All it took was an opportunity in Todd Bowles’ aggressive defense for Barrett to display the strength to break through double teams, the speed to close to quarterbacks on the move, and and burst to make slower offensive tackles regret their hesitancy. Barrett did all that on a one-year, $4 million deal, making him one of the NFL’s more remarkable bargains in recent years. When you sign a guy to a replacement-level contract and he responds with 82 total pressures, he’s worth a lot more. The Bucs will have Barrett on the franchise tag for $15,828 million in 2020 — perhaps to ensure that he wasn’t a one-year wonder. The tape shows that he wasn’t, and the team would be wise to invest in his services beyond this upcoming season.