Greg Rousseau is having the best season of his career and is keeping the Buffalo Bills’ defensive line afloat.
Rousseau is having an outstanding start to his 2024-25 season. Through 10 games, he has tallied up a league-leading 12 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks and has forced two fumbles as well.
Going into the advanced analytics, Rousseau has a 17% edge rush win rate, placing him at 18th among all defensive ends in the entire NFL.
More impressively, he has an edge tackle percentage of 22% which places him at 4th in the entire NFL. To summarize, running towards Greg Rousseau is a very bad idea and will not result in success very often.
The Buffalo Bills’ pressure percentage outside of Greg Rousseau is 13.1%, which would place them second last in the NFL, further explaining Rousseau’s impact on Buffalo’s defense.
He has been the Bills defensive lines saving grace to this point, picking up the slack from his fellow edge rushers in Von Miller, A.J. Epenesa, Javon Solomon, and Casey Toohill.
The Buffalo Bills defensive line being a disaster has been hidden by Greg Rousseau’s performance, paired with an 8-2 record for the team, but let’s take a deeper dive into the underperforming unit.
The Buffalo Bills are allowing 4.9 yards per rush, third worst in the NFL. That’s with the dominant run defense from Greg Rousseau as well, who has consistently graded out as a top 10 run-defending edge via Pro Football Focus (PFF).
Hopefully, the rest of the defensive line can figure it out, but until that happens, you can take solace in the fact that Greg Rousseau is playing high-level football in the midst of a breakout season.
