Brandon Graham and Vinny Curry have played in integral role in the Philadelphia Eagles possessing the NFL's top-ranked run defense.

Via Pro Football Focus, Graham and Curry both rank in the top-five in run stop percentage among edge rushers. Graham is ranked first in run stop percentage at 15.4 percent while Curry is fourth at 12.7 percent.

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Graham has 10 run stops this season on 65 run defense snaps, explaining the 15.4 percentage rate. Curry has eight stops on 63 snaps, two more run stops the he had all of last year.

Graham had 40 run stops in 2016, which gives him 50 over his last 22 games played. That's second to Khalil Mack among all edge rushers.

The Eagles are first in the NFL in rush yards per game, allowing just 65.7 per contest. They've allowed just 56.3 rush yards per contest over the last three games.

No matter how well the Eagles run defense has been, Jim Schwartz isn't buying into the hype.

"We're going to be judged on 16 though, so we need to continue that vein," Schwartz said. "We let the quarterback loose a few too many times in quarterback scrambles and designed runs. We haven't been exactly top-notch on those. But it's part of what we want to do. If you can get the run stopped, that allows you to rush, and we're a rush team. So you can't put the cart before the horse, chicken before the egg, whatever analogy that is, you can't rush the quarterback if you haven't -- if the offense has confidence in being able to run the ball.



"So it's an important thing. It's an important part of what we do. The guys work really hard at it. We spend a lot of time on how we're going to fit runs up and things like that, and generally we've been a pretty good tackling team. So I think all those things go into it."

With Graham and Curry on the edge in year two under Schwartz, expect the run-stopping production to continue.

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