"In 2025, the Cowboys ranked 26th overall with just 35 sacks, which must count as a huge disappointment, even when taking the Micah Parsons trade into account. After all, the Cowboys invested three of their last four second-round picks in pass rushers and signed Jadeveon Clowney and Dante Fowler on top of that, never mind beefing up the interior defensive line with Kenny Clark and Quinnen Williams."
"The Production Ratio was initially proposed by NFL.com's Pat Kirwan, and is really a very simple metric that adds up sacks and tackles-for-loss and divides the sum by the number of college games played. The resulting ratio is one tool among many - albeit a pretty good one - that measures the playmaking potential of front four players coming out of college. The Production Ratio is calculated as follows: PRODUCTION RATIO = (SACKS + TACKLES FOR LOSS) / NUMBER OF GAMES PLAYED"
"The ratio is usually calculated over the entire college career of a prospect, but that method can be inaccurate because not every prospect has a four-year career in college. To correct for that, we'll only look at the last two seasons of a player's college career. For the two-year measure, a number above 1.5 is often indicative of premier talent for a pass rusher, a value above 2.0 can be indicative of elite talent."
In 2025 the Cowboys ranked 26th with just 35 sacks despite investing three of four recent second-round picks in pass rushers, signing Jadeveon Clowney and Dante Fowler, and adding interior linemen Kenny Clark and Quinnen Williams. That combination makes pursuit of pass rushers early in the 2026 draft logical. Since 2011 a metric called the Production Ratio has been used intermittently to identify potential playmakers, adding sacks and tackles-for-loss and dividing by college games played. Calculating the ratio over the last two college seasons corrects for shortened careers; a two-year value above 1.5 indicates premier talent, above 2.0 indicates elite.
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