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As we wade into our massive pool of College Football Focus data, we’ll be sharing with you some of the highlights from our Signature Stats in position-by-position looks.

So, over these couple weeks you can expect daily dives into the best and worst that the full FBS schedule produced in all of the same categories you’ve come to know from our NFL coverage.

On the defensive side we’ve already shared looks at the edge defenders, defensive interior, linebackers and cornerbacks, so that means the safeties are up next and we’ll have a pair of posts splitting out their numbers.

A tough group to get a handle on as the nature of the position lends itself to many buckets for players to fit into, but they’ll all be treated as a single safety group here. In this first Sig Stat look at the safeties, we’ll focus on the leaders in run stops and tackling among this season’s draft-eligible class:

Run Stop Percentage

(min 100 snaps of run defense)



Run Stop Percentage, lined up within 8 yards



Tackling Efficiency vs. the Run



Tackling Efficiency Overall



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