{"id":180166,"date":"2025-07-04T06:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/180166\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:15:28","slug":"texans-danielle-hunter-and-will-anderson-jr-ranked-among-best-pass-rush-duos-entering-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/180166\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans’ Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. Ranked Among Best Pass-Rush Duos Entering 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texans’ Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. Ranked Among Best Pass-Rush Duos Entering 2025 Season<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Entering the 2025 season, the Houston Texans are expected to have one of the most elite defenses in the NFL. This includes a talented secondary and front seven that should wreak havoc on opposing quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

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Leading that front seven are defensive ends Danielle Hunter and\u00a0Will Anderson Jr.<\/a>, who recently checked in at\u00a0No. 2 in a Bleacher Report ranking<\/a> of the best pass-rush duos entering 2025.<\/p>\n

“This duo has only worked together for one season, but they made one hell of an impact together last year.” Bleacher Report’s Matt Holder wrote. “Hunter finished tied for fifth in the NFL with 12 sacks while Anderson was tied for 10th with 11, making the Houston Texans one of two teams to have two players finish in the top 10 for sacks<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Holder also applauded Hunter and Anderson’s ability to put pressure on opposing quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

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“According to Pro Football Focus<\/a>, the nine-year veteran [Hunter] ranked seventh among edge-rushers with 66 pressures during the 2024 regular season, while the second-year pro wasn’t far behind him, finishing 25th with 51<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Houston Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr. (51) and defensive end Danielle Hunter (55) attempt to sack Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams (18)Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

“That’s a big reason both finished with a top 25 PFF pass-rush grade: 80.7 and 14th for Hunter, 75.9 and 24th for Anderson.” Holder wrote.<\/p>\n

With head coach DeMeco Ryans at the helm the past two seasons, the Texans front seven has made massive strides. After finishing the 2022 season with 39 sacks, Houston registered 46 in 2023 and tied for fourth in the league with 49 last year.<\/p>\n

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Hunter and Anderson aren’t the only ones contributing.<\/p>\n

“Mix that in with Denico Autry (62 career sacks in 11 seasons) and Sheldon Rankins (30.5 sacks in nine seasons) off the bench, and Houston’s defense has a chance to be one of the best in the league this season.”<\/p>\n

Related: Texans Legend J.J. Watt Catches Attention with Major Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Texans Announce Full Training Camp Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 1, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans’ Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. Ranked Among Best Pass-Rush Duos Entering 2025 Season originally appeared on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1036,391,6047,3607,11305,7,221,253,2368,6,410,18781,222,6051],"class_list":{"0":"post-180166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-caleb-williams","9":"tag-chicago-bears","10":"tag-danielle-hunter","11":"tag-demeco-ryans","12":"tag-denico-autry","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-texans","16":"tag-houstontexans","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pro-football-focus","19":"tag-sheldon-rankins","20":"tag-texans","21":"tag-will-anderson-jr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114793501842592217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}