{"id":78247,"date":"2025-05-22T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=78247"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:16:07","slug":"leonard-taylor-iii-all-22-review-2nd-year-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2025\/05\/22\/leonard-taylor-iii-all-22-review-2nd-year-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Taylor III All-22 Review: 2nd Year Leap?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leonard Taylor III All 22 Review: 2nd Year Leap?!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igDqDEPXlZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The New York Jets are undergoing a new-look on defense with the hiring of head coach Aaron Glenn and defensive coordinator Steve Wilks. That means a new scheme, as well as new usages for players who were retained from 2024. Enter Leonard Taylor III &#8212; the 2nd year UDFA defensive tackle from the Miami Hurricanes. Last season, Taylor III played 266 snaps for the Jets&#8217; defense, earning a PFF Run Defense Grade of 69.9, which ranked 34th out of 219 eligible DTs. He also posted a 56.9 Pass Rush Grade, ranking 86th at the position. After watching all 266 snaps of All-22 film, there is a case to be made that Leonard Taylor III could be the 3rd-most used tackle on the interior of the defense, behind Quinnen Williams and free-agent signing Derrick Nnadi from Kansas City. This may explain why the Jets did not select a defensive tackle in the 2025 NFL Draft last April, as Wilks and Glenn have a plan to use Taylor III in more scenarios moving forward. Does LT3 have what it takes to be an impact player in New York&#8217;s defense? Can he solidify himself as a every down player in the NFL? Let&#8217;s dive into the film and see what we learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets are undergoing a new-look on defense with the hiring of head coach Aaron Glenn and defensive coordinator Steve Wilks. That means a new scheme, as well as new usages for players who were retained from 2024. Enter Leonard Taylor III &#8212; the 2nd year UDFA defensive tackle from the Miami Hurricanes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":69303,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Leonard-Taylor.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-km3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78247","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}