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Career snaps per sack: 202.7Leonard Williams is one of the most puzzling players in the NFL. His disparity between quarterback..."LEONARD WILLIAMS2018 sack total: 5.0Career average per season: 4.25Career snaps per sack: 202.7Leonard Williams is one of the most puzzling players in the NFL. His disparity between quarterback hits and sacks is of an enormity that has been unparalleled over the past few seasons.Over the past two seasons http://www.jetslockerroom.com/authentic-jamal-adams-jersey , Williams is tied for 12th in the league in quarterback hits, with 45. That’s an elite number. It’s tied for the third-highest total among 300+ pound defenders, behind only Fletcher Cox and Calais Campbell. Over the same span, Williams is tied for 96th in sacks, with only 7.0.While the average pressure is not as valuable as the average sack (since a sack is a guaranteed win for the defense and a pressure is not), pass rush victories and pressures do have significant value, and Williams has racked them up at a tremendous rate.At the same time, Williams has converted an abnormally small amount of his wins into sacks. What to make of this?I tend to fall in the middle when it comes to Williams debates. He definitely needs to rack up more sacks. Those plays are game-changers, and truly elite players along the defensive line collect a ton of them. Williams is certainly capable of racking up strong sack totals. He clearly has the talent level to do it and his pass rush production matches that of an elite sack artist. Williams would boost the Jets defense tremendously if he could sack the quarterback at a much higher level.At the same time, we cannot use sacks alone to define a player. Sacks make up too small a portion of a player’s time on the field to be the lone tally used to represent their value. Aaron Donald led the league in sacks in 2018 with 20.5, and yet he still only registered a sack on slightly more than 2% of his 914 snaps. Almost 99% of the time, even the league’s best pass rushers aren’t finishing the play with a sack. In Williams’ case, he does a lot of things at a very high level that tend to go unnoticed due to his sack struggles. Even without the sack splurges, he’s a really good player.So Brian Winters Jersey , back to Williams’ sack total. Where will he fall in 2019?There are a few possible reasons we could attribute to Williams’ scary low rate of turning pressure into sacks.Does he command more double teams than most players due to the lack of talent around him?Did Todd Bowles’ scheme call for Williams to focus more on gap-plugging than pass rushing?Has he suffered from bad luck?Is he just simply a poor finisher?I think any combination of these points may be true. There seems to be a good chance any of them could be reversed in 2019. Whether or not Leo has actually drawn an unusually high amount of doubles is up for debate, but the selection of Quinnen Williams will undoubtedly take some focus off of Leo. In addition, the famously aggressive Gregg Williams should certainly allow for Leo to see a few more attack-first opportunities per game.Bad luck could also be at play. Williams’ lack of sacks has to mostly be attributed to his own struggles — we can’t just chalk up a bunch of excuses for him. However, some degree of poor luck has to be involved when there is a 84-spot disparity between Williams’ ranking in hits and sacks. A gap that large is really, really difficult to accrue. Has Williams just been unlucky to see an abnormal amount of throwaways, scrambles, and quick throws cancel out his pass rush victories? He seems due to rise at least a little bit closer to the mean.As for the fourth reason, perhaps a lack of finishing ability simply is a weakness in Williams’ game that will persist. The glass half full take on this possibility would be to invest in the chance that Williams, who will only be 25 this season, could still develop even further thanks to his young draft age. It’s possible, but it seems more likely Williams might just not be built to become a sack monster.In 2019, I think Williams will beat both his career average of 4.25 sacks per season and his 2018 total of 5.0 sacks. He’s due for a rise towards the mean and should benefit from the additions of two other guys named Williams — Gregg and Quinnen. I would settle on a number of around 6.0 or 6.5 for Leo, but I could see a peak of around 7.0 or 8.0 if a lot of things break right. If Leo can maintain an average around the 6.0-6.5 range over the rest of his Jets career, that would be great. It’s nothing to sneeze at — as an example Womens Wayne Chrebet Jersey , Fletcher Cox has averaged 6.4 sacks per season over his career. Gerald McCoy has averaged 6.1.If Leo fails to boost his sack numbers this season, it would be unfortunate and seemingly place a firm cap on his upside, but I don’t think it should cloud his overall value. We have to wait and see how he performs this season, but if he has another year similar to what he has done so far, he will have still put forth a campaign of very good defensive line play for the Jets.Now, whether or not the Jets should retain Williams, at what will likely be a very expensive price, after another season with only a handful of impact plays? That’s a debate for another day.The door is as open as ever for Leo to put some splashy numbers in that sack column everybody has their eyes on. He’s got more help, a notoriously aggressive defensive coordinator, and the law of averages on his side. Any extra sacks above his previous averages that Williams can pick up would do so much towards lifting both himself and the Jets defense to new heights. ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills rookie quarterback Josh Allen's status remains uncertain. Derek Anderson is out. And that means it might be Matt Barkley time for Buffalo.Barkley is suddenly in the mix to start against the New York Jets on Sunday, some 10 days after Buffalo signed the journeyman to serve as an emergency backup.Coach Sean McDermott on Friday backed off his previous commitment of having turnover-prone backup Nathan Peterman start against the Jets if Allen and Anderson can't play. Asked about the possibility of Peterman starting, McDermott sidestepped the question by saying he preferred to keep the focus on Allen. That's a switch from Monday, when McDermott said Peterman would be the starter.Anderson will miss his second game due to a concussion .Allen is listed as questionable on Buffalo's injury report. He's been out since spraining his right throwing elbow in a 20-13 loss at Houston on Oct. 14. Allen began testing his arm last week http://www.jetslockerroom.com/authentic-quincy-enunwa-jersey , and practiced on a limited basis for the past three days."We're going to continue to take it one day at a time here," McDermott said of Allen. "It comes down to No. 1, a medical decision and making sure we're doing everything right in terms of the priority of being his health and functionality from a football standpoint."One consideration is Allen benefiting from an additional break with Buffalo entering its bye week after playing the Jets.A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Barkley is being considered ahead of Peterman, but a final decision hasn't yet been made. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because McDermott did not reveal the team's plans.The Bills are 2-7 and have lost four straight.Peterman has thrown seven interceptions in four appearances this season, including three in a 41-9 loss to Chicago last weekend.The Bills signed Barkley on Oct. 30. He is on his sixth team in six seasons, and hasn't appeared in a regular-season game since 2016, when he started six games with the Chicago Bears. Barkley was cut by the Cincinnati Bengals in September after hurting his knee in a preseason game."We're all in the mix to start. You could be out there, we never know," Barkley said with a laugh, referring to a reporter."I'm a little bit surprised of how quickly I was able to pick up this stuff," he added, after taking additional snaps after practice and being the last quarterback to leave the field. "It's really like riding a bike. You get a little sweat going and it's go time. You've done it for years, so I should be good to go."Barkley was selected by Philadelphia in the fourth round of the 2013 draft, and spent his first two seasons there. Overall Trenton Cannon Jersey , he has a 1-5 record as a starter and has gone 159 for 266 for 1,911 yards with eight touchdowns and 18 interceptions in 11 career appearances."It hasn't maybe been the plan I signed up for when I thought of going to the NFL," Barkley said of his numerous pro stops. "But from what I've been able to learn along the way, I think I'm in a great spot right now."Barkley would become the fourth quarterback to start for the Bills this season, and third in three weeks.The carousel at quarterback has contributed to the offense's season-long struggles. Buffalo has scored two touchdowns in its past four games, eight overall, and has an NFL-worst 96 points.Running back LeSean McCoy is familiar with Barkley from when the two played in Philadelphia."He's intelligent. He'll have a tough time because they're a good defense and it's a fresh start, but I don't think it's nothing he can't handle," McCoy said. "We'll support him. We'll be behind him. I'm sure he'll have a good game. It'll be a tough matchup. It's a good defense."Starting tight end Charles Clay was ruled out after hurting his hamstring last weekend. Defensive end Trent Murphy will miss his third game with a knee injury. Linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (concussion), running back Chris Ivory (shoulder) and receiver Andre Holmes (neck) are listed as questionable.