Buy Or Sell: OLB Alex Highsmith is not a reliable 10-sack edge rusher.
Explanation: First and foremost, there’s nothing inherently insulting about not reliably producing double-digit sacks. That’s not an easy thing to do. On average, fewer than 20 players manage it annually, meaning many teams don’t even have one of those. Yet we must note that Alex Highsmith followed his “breakout” season with just seven sacks last season. In three years as a full-time starter, he’s averaging 9.2 sacks per year, with one outlier year.
Buy:
Many expected a linear progression from one year to the next for Alex Highsmith, but the 2023 season proved otherwise.