Everybody loves rankings. In the spirit of the rest-of-the-season rankings for offensive guys, let's just go ahead and do the same for the guys on the other side of the ball. These rankings will basically serve as a cheat sheet for IDP owners. I placed green arrows on the guys that entered the top 75 following strong performances last week. They would have been the main guys in the weekly IDP Waiver Wire column.
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| Rank | Defensive Player |
| 1 | James Laurinaitis |
| 2 | Lawrence Timmons |
| 3 | Patrick Willis |
| 4 | Curtis Lofton |
| 5 | Pat Angerer |
| 6 | D'Qwell Jackson |
| 7 | Sean Lee |
| 8 | Desmond Bishop |
| 9 | Tyvon Branch |
| 10 | Ray Lewis |
| 11 | LaRon Landry |
| 12 | Jerod Mayo |
| 13 | George Wilson |
| 14 | Stephen Tulloch |
| 15 | Barrett Ruud |
| 16 | T.J. Ward |
| 17 | Derrick Johnson |
| 18 | Rolando McClain |
| 19 | Kam Chancellor |
| 20 | London Fletcher |
| 21 | Brian Urlacher |
| 22 | Sean Weatherspoon |
| 23 | Morgan Burnett |
| 24 | Brian Cushing |
| 25 | David Hawthorne |
| 26 | Paul Posluszny |
| 27 | Roman Harper |
| 28 | Donte Whiter |
| 29 | Yeremiah Bell |
| 30 | Nick Barnett |
| 31 | David Harris |
| 32 | Jonathan Vilma |
| 33 | Lance Briggs |
| 34 | Trent Cole |
| 35 | James Anderson |
| 36 | Eric Weddle |
| 37 | Jared Allen |
| 38 | Mason Foster |
| 39 | Julius Peppers |
| 40 | Mario Williams |
| 41 | Justin Tuck |
| 42 | Chad Greenway |
| 43 | Takeo Spikes |
| 44 | Rey Maualuga |
| 45 | Jairus Byrd |
| 46 | Lardarius Webb |
| 47 | Jason Pierre-Paul |
| 48 | Phillip Taylor |
| 49 | Calais Campbell |
| 50 | D.J. Williams |
| 51 | NaVorro Bowman |
| 52 | Joe Mays |
| 53 | Troy Polumalu |
| 54 | Sean Jones |
| 55 | Terrell Suggs |
| 56 | Ndamukong Suh |
| 57 | Charles Johnson |
| 58 | DeMeco Ryans |
| 59 | Quintin Mikell |
| 60 | Karlos Dansby |
| 61 | Pat Chung |
| 62 | Thomas Howard |
| 63 | Donald Butler |
| 64 | Earl Thomas |
| 65 | E.J. Henderson |
| 66 | Rocky McIntosh |
| 67 | Daryl Washington |
| 68 | Matt Shaughnessy |
| 69 | John Abraham |
| 70 | Jabaal Sheard |
| 71 | Clay Matthews |
| 72 | Jamar Chaney |
| 73 | Justin Durant |
| 74 | James Harrison |
| 75 | Chris Clemons |
| 76 |
Charles Woodson |
| 77 | Michael Griffin |
| 78 | Kerry Rhodes |
| 79 | Jason Babin |
| 80 | Kenny Phillips |
| 81 | Devin McCourty |
| 82 | Bryan Scott |
| 83 | Eric Smith |
| 84 | Patrick Peterson |
| 85 | Ryan Kerrigan |
| 86 | Reggie Nelson |
| 87 | Haloti Ngata |
| 88 | Greg Hardy |
| 89 | Dwight Freeney |
| 90 | Kyle Vanden Bosch |
| 91 | Antonie Bethea |
| 92 | Charles Tillman |
| 93 | Jarrad Page |
| 94 | DeMarcus Ware |
| 95 | Leroy Hill |
| 96 | Kyle Arrington |
| 97 | A.J. Jefferson |
| 98 | Joe Haden |
| 99 | Craig Dahl |
| 100 | Adrian Wilson |
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