Standing at a gaudy 6-foot-4 and 318 pounds while almost always popping off the screen as the strongest man on the field, it’s obvious why Folorunso Fatukasi is in the league: to stop the run. And he’s damn good at it. Fatukasi graded as Pro Football Focus’ fifth-best run defender among interior defensive linemen in 2019 (87.6 grade) and jumped up to second-best in 2020 (86.2 grade).
For most run-game-centric nose tackles in the league like Fatukasi, teams don’t care too much about their impact in the passing game.