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PFF’s One-Year Wonder Team: The NFL’s best single-season outlier performances since 2006

It’s easy to get caught up in the results from one great season — particularly when it comes from a young player — but one season doesn’t guarantee a prolonged career of high-level play. Maintaining a lengthy NFL career is a feat in and of itself; maintaining a lengthy career of above-average play as a starter is even more difficult. One injury, or even just a change in environment, can lead to a permanent drop in production. That is the case for most of the players on this team — NFL players who flashed one season of good-to-elite play since 2006 but were unable to replicate that performance over the remainder of their careers.