Eagles Haason Reddick & Josh Sweat: NFL's Best Pass-Rushing Duo?

The best pass-rushing duo in the NFL doesn’t reside in South Philly ... at least not according to rankings released by Bleacher Report.

Granted, rankings like this are always subjective, and there will be plenty of rankings regarding so many things as the league’s players and coaches prepare for summer break to await the opening of training camps.

The Philadelphia Eagles are already on vacation, opting not to hold a mandatory minicamp as the other 31 teams do.

As for this latest ranking, Haason Reddick and Josh Sweat could do no better than place fifth in a top five put together by Bleacher Report.

The list included any player along the defensive line, not just edge rushers. It also factored in quarterback pressures.

Reddick had a career-high 16 sacks last year then added another 3.5 in the postseason. Sweat’s sack totals have gone each year, from six to 7.5 to last year’s career-high of 11.

The Eagles were the best sack team in the league last season, garnering 70 of them, which was the third-highest total ever posted and the most since the 1989 Minnesota Vikings put up 72.

One of the players who helped the Eagles achieve that total is no longer with the team. That would be Javon Hargrave, who, with San Francisco 49ers teammate Nick Bosa, were ranked as the fourth-best pass-rushing duo.

Hargrave is certainly getting more love nationally than he ever got over the previous three seasons he spent in Philadelphia. His 11 sacks last year were a career-high. Bosa, of course, was the league’s defensive MVP with 18.5 sacks.

The Cleveland Browns’ Myles Garrett and Za’Darius Smith, who came over from the Minnesota Vikings during the offseason, are ranked third.

An argument could be made, however, that the three pass-rushing duos ranked third, fourth, and fifth could be ranked ahead of the top two.

At No. 1 was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ duo of T.J. Watt and Cameron Heyward with No. 2 going to the Los Angeles Chargers’ Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack.

Watt played 10 games last year and had 5.5 sacks. Yes, he is a pass-rush master based on his previous seasons. Heyward certainly upheld his end of the deal with 10.5 sacks last year.

In L.A., Bosa played just five games and finished with 2.5 sacks. He has battled injury throughout his career. Mack is now 32 and hasn’t had a double-digit sack season since 2018.

Injuries, though, didn’t seem to factor into the rankings.

Ed Kracz covers the Philadelphia Eagles for SI's EaglesToday.

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