Is JJ Watt The Best Defensive Player In Our Time?

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Is JJ Watt The Best Defensive Player In Our Time? Some people say Richard Sherman, Clay Matthews, Josh Norman, Von Miller are the best defensive players in the NFL but I think that JJ Watt is the best Defensive Player in the NFL. The reasons why I think this is because first reason he had 21.5 sacks in just 1 year which would be 2012 and would make him number 8 for most sacks, He had 74.5 sacks in his whole career, and last of all he had 1 interception and ran it for a 80 yard touchdown. So here let's compare him to some of the other amazing defensive players. If we compare JJ Watt to Clay Matthews first how many sacks did each of them get is the 2015 season. Clay Matthews only had 6.5 where JJ Watt had 17.5 sacks. Now let's check how many tackles all the players that I listed in the beginning have compared to JJ Watt. Richard Sherman had 33 tackles, Clay Matthews had 66 tackles, Josh Norman had 48 tackles, Von Miller had 30 , and JJ Watt had 76. As you can see JJ Watt had more tackles than all of them but Clay Matthews is a close second. …show more content…

Now let's talk about JJ Watts 2014 season where he did his best and put on a show for everyone. In 2014 he had 78 tackles which was more than his 2015 season only by 2 tackles and he also had 20.5 sacks which is a lot of sacks in just one season and also in just 2014 alone he got an interception that allof a sudden turned into an 80 yard touchdown which was probably one of the most amazing things in his season so far. He has only been in the NFL for 5 years and he has been rewarded with best defensive player of the year twice which is pretty amazing if you ask me. He also looked up to Reggie White who is another amazing defensive player and he was on the Green Bay

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