Indianapolis Colts defensive tackle DeForest Buckner makes his presence known every week as the engine of the defense, and he recently received some high praise from ESPN.
Rolling out their rankings of the top defensive tackles in the NFL, Buckner was placed fourth behind Aaron Donald, Jeffrey Simmons and Chris Jones.
As ESPN surveyed “more than 50 league executives, coaches, scouts and players” for this exercise, here’s what they had to say about Buckner: