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PFF Ranks 49ers DE Nick Bosa the NFL's 35th Best Player of 2024

This past season, Bosa missed three games and recorded just 24 quarterback hits -- the lowest of his career not counting 2020 when he missed 14 games with a torn ACL.

Grant Cohn

Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) during the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) during the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images / Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
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Nick Bosa is still a good player, but he might be on the declne.

This past season, he missed three games and recorded just 24 quarterback hits -- the lowest of his career not counting 2020 when he missed 14 games with a torn ACL.

In 2023, Bosa was the 6th best player in the NFL according to Pro Football Focus. Now, they rank him 35th for 2024.

"Bosa battled a pair of nagging injuries throughout the season, eventually missing a crucial stretch for the 49ers—a loss that may have contributed to their second-half skid in 2024," writes PFF. "Replacing his impact on the defensive line is no easy task, and when healthy, he remained dominant, posting a 20% pass-rush win rate, a top-five mark among qualifying edge rushers."

Bosa certainly creates lots of pressure, and pressure is extremely important. But he also misses too many tackles. In 2024, his missed tackle percentage was a gaudy 20.4 and he whiffed 11 times -- more than any other defensive lineman on the team. He tends to slip and lose his balance when the quarterback scrambles.

Bosa is one of the highest-paid players in the NFL. If his play continues to dip next season, the 49ers should trade him before his value drops.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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