Lots of football people are obsessed with quarterback pressures. Many are not.

Joe is in the latter camp. While lots of pressures can indicate a consistent pass rush. Ultimately, pressures don’t faze top NFL quarterbacks very often, and those are the quarterbacks in the playoffs.

Quarterback hits get Joe much more excited; those get in quarterbacks heads and bones. And Joe loves sacks, of course. Sacks are drive killers.

The Bucs just drafted stud University of Miami edge rusher Rueben Bain.

Does he collect pressures, the data nerds ask? Per the CBS Sports graphic below, Bain is a pressures freak. Last season, Bain had the second-most pressures in FBS college football recorded over the past 10 years.

For those wondering while studying the graphic, neither Sutton Smith nor Hunter Dimick registered a sack in the NFL. (The Bucs sniffed Dimick on their offseason roster in 2019).

Bain had his 83 pressures in 16 games. Will Anderson of the Texans, the highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL, got his 82 pressures in 15 games. Bailey needed 14 to record 81.

If pressures do, in fact, matter a lot, then Bain seems primed for a successful career.