{"id":84011,"date":"2025-05-28T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84011\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:00:08","slug":"2-nfc-west-lbs-honored-by-pff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84011\/","title":{"rendered":"2 NFC West LBs honored by PFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals didn&#8217;t have a linebacker in PFF&#8217;s top 32 for 2025, but two in the NFC West made the cut.<\/p>\n<p>In the offseason of lists and rankings, PFF has been giving us the top players in the NFL at different positions. That includes off-linebackers. In their rankings of the 32 best off-ball linebackers, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> did not have any players.<\/p>\n<p>The NFC West only has two with the Cardinals and LA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rams<\/a> excluded.<\/p>\n<p>NFC West linebackers in NFL top 32<\/p>\n<p>Warner being at the top of the list is no surprise. He is incredible. He also just got paid again, earning a record-setting contract.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is a curious player because he played for the Rams and produced. But he was traded to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> for almost nothing, who then traded him to the Seahawks. His presence on Seattle&#8217;s defense shored up their run defense and led a late season surge that fell short of the division title.<\/p>\n<p>But he was re-signed and will be the leader in the middle of that unit in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire&#8217;s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27gxR7Oml5yVPywhOG8KHR?si=cGJ0FN6aRBquiLus5nj7rw&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=05e790ef05a641b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9sICHPD_aT9zxnG7dJj6izJWgMhLMh_U&amp;si=rpNldnLNN-_DdW8R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-rise-up-see-red-podcast\/id670822447?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals didn&#8217;t have a linebacker in PFF&#8217;s top 32 for 2025, but two in the NFC West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[220,247,265,240,375,390,1327,7,219,1184,239,58,248,267,88,854,1593,6,245,537,530,424,218,252,818,238,237,261,1602,2517,817,829,9,266,819,526,394,527,776,1588],"class_list":{"0":"post-84011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-angeles","12":"tag-arizona","13":"tag-arizona-cardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-francisco","17":"tag-listicle","18":"tag-los","19":"tag-los-angeles-rams","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfc","24":"tag-nfc-west","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-positive","29":"tag-rams","30":"tag-san","31":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","32":"tag-scores","33":"tag-seahawks","34":"tag-seattle","35":"tag-seattle-seahawks","36":"tag-smg","37":"tag-smg-listicle","38":"tag-sport","39":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-sports-news","42":"tag-statistics","43":"tag-tennessee","44":"tag-tennessee-titans","45":"tag-titans","46":"tag-u0026","47":"tag-west"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114582757436911861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84011","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=84011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}