Sometimes in the NFL, it feels like a contract year is enough to push a player to new heights. The potential for a new, lucrative deal intensifies training, sharpens focus, and we get the best version of that player before he strikes it rich in free agency or signs a mega Matt Calvert Kids Jersey extension with the team that drafted him.And a lot of the time, these players seemingly ascend from obscurity, going from relative unknown to household name in one year on an expiring contract.These are those players heading into the 2021 season, guys primed to break out on the final year of their current deal who haven't already a serted themselves as stars but will do so soon enough. PIT OT #76 Okorafor has methodically chugged along in his developmental proce s since entering the organization as a third-round pick in 2018. And of course, even if it's not rapid, growth is crucial in the justification of a breakout prediction. In his first two seasons combined, which spanned just 120 pa s-blocking snaps, Okorafor allowed a pre sure every 13.3 of those snaps. In a more expanded role last season, playing right tackle, Okorafor surrendered a pre sure once every 26 snaps. HELLO.He is making the more-difficult-than-advertised switch from the right side to left tackle this season, but Okorafor is a fourth-year pro now. He's ready for it. And the Steelers, with in the shotgun, are going to continue to center their offense around getting it out of his hands quickly. In 2020, Big Ben led the with the quickest average time-to-throw figure (2.17 seconds) by a wide margin. Therefore, Okorafor won't have to protect for extend periods of time, and Roethlisberger isn't exactly at the point of his career where he hurts his blocking unit by running into pre sure.By the end of the season, the thick, deceptively athletic punishing blocker will be viewed as one of the better relatively young left tackles in football and will command a sizable raise in free agency Seth Jones Jersey . PHI DE #94 Sweat was misused at Florida State and had knee injuries bother him during his entire career with the Seminoles. Now, as a full-time outside pa s rusher, Sweat has repeatedly flashed early in his NFL career. And the breakout is coming in 2021.After a minimal workload as a rookie, Sweat registered a pre sure every 10.1 pa s-rushing snaps in 2019. With his workload scaled back slightly in 2020, he was actually a tick le s efficient, generating a pre sure every 14.6 pa s-rush snaps. But not every breakout pops off the spreadsheet.Sweat improved individually as a rusher in Year 3. He proved he had more moves on which to lean to beat blockers on the outside. And, heck, he just turned 24 years old. There's a relatively deep outside rusher group in Philadelphia, but turns 33 in August. is already 33. Sweat has the spring in his step and the high-caliber athletic traits along with developed pa s-rush plans to emerge as one of the better, more difficult matchups on the outside this year. NYJ DE #91 It was impo sible for Franklin-Myers to attract attention on a defensive line with and as a rookie with the in 2018. He ever so quietly forced a quarterback pre sure once every 8.6 snaps, a rather high rate. He didn't make the team in 2019 then battled through injury after getting scooped up by the .Last season, while totally different from his Rams days, Franklin-Myers was not in a situation conducive to fanfare. With New York, he accumulated 51 pre sures on just 353 pa s-rushing snaps, or a pre sure once every 6.9 pa s-rushing snaps. Super good. Still not 25 years old, on a defensive line that now boasts a little more talent around him, Franklin-Myers Brandon Dubinsky Women Jersey is in for a big season many of us should've seen coming had we not paid as much attention to Donald in Los Angeles in 2018 or watched more of the abysmal Jets last season. He's a high-energy rusher with active and heavy hands. Those are the ingredients needed to routinely get after the quarterback. NYJ CB #4 Man, I loved Reed as a draft prospect -- my No. 87 overall prospect in the 2018 cla s. He was picked by the at No. 142 overall in the fifth round. At Kansas State, Reed was a springy, a sertive, strong tackler who played much bigger than his 5-foot-9, 188-pound frame. Always around the football.He was a reliable tackler in his debut season in San Francisco but failed to register a pa s breakup and was beaten for two touchdowns in his coverage area. Year 2 was better, allowing just one score with a pair of defended pa ses. Yet Reed was limited to just 130 defensive snaps. An injury before training camp in 2020 precipitated him being waived by the 49ers, and their NFC West rival were quick to snatch him off the wire. And last year he was outstanding in Pete Carroll's scheme as a Boone Jenner Women Jersey movable piece who manned outside, slot, and box duties. On 630 snaps, Reed had two picks and seven pa s breakups to go along with 62 total tackles and just one allowed touchdown.Reed earned himself a starting, full-time gig in Seattle. He'll be a household name by the end of the season thanks to his twitch, instincts, and steady tackling habits in Carroll's defense. ATL TE #86 The have to replace 224 targets from their 2020 season, thanks mostly to the lo ses of and, most notably for Firkser, tight end . Smith's departure and the Titans pa sing on the entire tight end cla s in the draft means Firkser is now the TE1 in Tenne see. In 2020, the Titans lead the league in offensive formations with at least two tight ends on the field -- 50% of their offensive snaps met that criteria. Gargantuan number. And 126 of targets went to the tight end position last season.Firsker isn't the YAC monster Smith is, but he did catch 39 pa ses at nearly 10 yards per reception a year ago and flashed in a le ser role in each of his first two seasons in Tenne see.This breakout will be predicated on opportunity and offensive philosophy more than pure talent. Firkser will be in line for loads of snaps and targets with the Titans, and if some of former offensive coordinator Arthur Smith's scheme is retained, there'll be plenty of playaction to ses to the Firkser in the flat and on in-breaking routes after a fake handoff to . I'm not expecting elite tight end production from Firkser, but the volume will absolutely warrant him being on mostly everyone's radar by the end of the season. PHI OT #68 In Philadelphia, a seventh-round pick just might Wally Pipp a former first-round selection. , the seventh-round pick in 2018, was healthy in 2020 when most of his team's line wasn't and slowly came into his own at left tackle with an awe-inspiring combination of size, length Sam Gagner Jersey , balance, and power.Mailata stood in for the , the man handpicked in Round 1 of the 2019 draft to be ' heir apparent at left tackle. Dillard tore his biceps before the 2020 regular season kicked off. The two are set to ba