Next Gen Stats 2025 All-Pro Team: Myles Garrett, Texans duo lead defense; plus, special teamers

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With the NFL regular season in the books, the Next Gen Stats analytics team dives into advanced data to spotlight the best of the best at each position. Check out the NGS 2025 NFL All-Pro Team, with defensive and special teams selections featured below.

Garrett set the single-season sack record, and we cannot overlook the difficulty of those sacks. He was chip blocked or double teamed on 186 pass rushes, the most by any edge rusher since at least 2018. He recorded a league-high 32 pressures and eight of his sacks when facing extra help. That sack total not only paced all edge rushers in the last eight seasons but exceeded all defensive tackles, who regularly face double teams, as well.

Anderson’s 85 pressures this season, second-most in the league, exceeded his prior career-high by 21. He earned his spot here with his work as a drive killer: His 48 pressures on third downs were the most by any player since at least 2018 and equated to an astounding 27.7% pressure rate. He generated a league-leading 23 of those pressures in less than 2.5 seconds.

Simmons ran the table in the pass rush categories this season, leading all defensive tackles with 60 pressures, a 13.9% pressure rate, 26 quick pressures and 18 pressures against double teams. He recorded a Week 4 sack of C.J. Stroud in 2.09 seconds, the fastest sack by any player this season. Simmons also amassed 14 run stuffs for loss or no gain, the fifth-most among interior defensive linemen.

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