Punter is a difficult position to measure, the low sample of attempts over a season, the lack of a solid metric in which to judge, the NFL no longer publishing hang time statistics. There are a lot of problems with trying to say punter X is better than punter Y. It’s a debate that may not have a right answer and will get me a lot of hate online, assuming I can get you emotionally invested enough in the position. So with that said, let’s do it.
Wins above something
Wins above replacement has been a go to metric for baseball for sometime, though it’s conversion to football has been slow going for a number of reasons, first of all it’s difficult to try and narrowly isolate the impact of the performance of one position on the field from the other 10.