Each week of the 2023 NFL season, the Next Gen Stats analytics team will present a different Position Power Ranking, meant to spotlight the top performers among a specific group of players. Today, we’ve assembled a list of the top 10 nose tackles heading into Week 9.
Before we dive in, though, a note on our methodology: To help create quantifiable rankings, we have devised a formula that yields a Next Gen Stats percentile score, which measures how a player is performing relative to his peers. The formula uses each player’s percentile score across a series of key metrics to create one composite score, indicating which players at that position performed best.
This week’s nose tackle score is a composite of a player’s production and efficiency when lined up as a 0- or 1-technique (i.e., nose tackle, also known as a nose guard) through the first eight weeks of the 2023 season. The rankings included 67 defensive tackles who have aligned at 0- or 1-technique on at least 50 defensive plays this year.
NT overall scores are rounded off to the nearest whole number for the purpose of simplicity, but the rankings you see below factor in the raw data down to the decimal point.
