{"id":95223,"date":"2025-06-01T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/95223\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:01:10","slug":"dre-greenlaw-ranked-among-nfls-best-linebackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/95223\/","title":{"rendered":"Dre Greenlaw ranked among NFL\u2019s best linebackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-linebacker-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-linebacker-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Focus<\/a> writer Mason Cameron recently released his list of the top 32 linebackers ahead of the 2025 NFL season. Although a free agent signing from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, Cameron selected <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Denver Broncos<\/a> newcomer Dre Greenlaw as one of the NFL\u2019s top linebackers.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron chose Greenlaw as the fifth-best linebacker, primarily based on his play before his Achilles injury in the Super Bowl in February 2024. While he played two games in 2024, his 247 tackles combined in 2022 and 2023 will help build an impressive resume while showing his reputation as a linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron quickly noted that Greenlaw, when healthy, is a top-tier linebacker; he did draw on the concern that there are questions about his health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough he played just 34 snaps in 2024, Greenlaw was on his way to the upper ech<a href=\"https:\/\/premium.pff.com\/ncaa\/teams\/2024\/REGPO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">elon<\/a>\u00a0of linebacker play before his injury,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-linebacker-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cameron wrote for PFF<\/a>. &#8220;His profile as one of the best coverage linebackers in the NFL was on full display from 2022 to 2023, when he posted a combined 88.9 PFF coverage grade.\u00a0While there are questions regarding the level he can return to, Greenlaw&#8217;s ceiling is high and worthy of this lofty placement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denver hopes Greenlaw can help further transform the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" data-autotag=\"80ecb2c2-c4e3-4c9a-8c53-01c0a2da3542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broncos<\/a>&#8216; defense, which was among the NFL&#8217;s best last fall. With Pat Surtain in the secondary, Greenlaw\u2019s presence in the middle can help Denver get over the hump in 2025, health permitting.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2019\/08\/03\/denver-broncos-famous-fans-celebrities-include-paul-george-amy-adams\/79446413007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro Football Focus writer Mason Cameron recently released his list of the top 32 linebackers ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[220,247,265,232,231,258,2426,4329,1160,7,219,4330,248,267,88,6,245,537,530,218,252,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-95223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-broncos","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-denverbroncos","15":"tag-dre","16":"tag-dre-greenlaw","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-francisco","19":"tag-greenlaw","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-san","28":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114607062028519258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95223","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=95223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}