While your average NFL fan may take a peek at the box scores on Monday morning to determine just how well a player is performing, anyone who takes the time to watch Jets defensive lineman Leonard Williams on film knows that he’s a far better player than his pedestrian stat line (47 tackles, 2 sacks) would suggests.\u00a0 Now,\u00a0it seems tat after watching Williams in action, the folks at Pro Football Focus would agree.<\/p>\n
The site, which breaks down every NFL player on every NFL play and offers their analysis has placed Williams on their “Top 25 players under 25<\/strong><\/a>” list, saying the following about the former sixth overall pick out of USC:<\/p>\n Williams\u2019 play has been incredibly consistent since being drafted in the top-10 of the 2015 draft as he is yet to record a single year-long grade under 84.8 overall. While 2017 wasn\u2019t his best, he was still disruptive as both a pass-rusher and defending the run. Over the past two seasons, Williams has notched 37 combined sacks and\u00a0hits, and among interior defenders, only Aaron Donald has more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Jets are hoping that by dumping malcontent defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson, there will be an uptick in Williams’ production as Gang Green will no longer be in a position in which they’re essentially playing with 10 defenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While your average NFL fan may take a peek at the box scores on Monday morning to determine just how well a player is performing, anyone who takes the time to watch Jets defensive lineman Leonard Williams on film knows that he’s a far better player than his pedestrian stat line (47 tackles, 2 sacks) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":32522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0676.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-afK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39417,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39416\/revisions\/39417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
16.\u00a0LEONARD WILLIAMS<\/a>, DI,\u00a0NEW YORK JETS<\/a><\/h3>\n