After a slow final in the 2024 campaign, Mike Clay d’Espn does not expect TJ Watt to return to his normal production rate next season for Pittsburgh Steelers.
In its projection guide for 2025, Clay ended the year with 60 plated, 10.1 bags and 0.2 interceptions on 914 snaps.
It goes without saying that he cannot finish with a fifth of interception or a tenth bag, but the Clay system is more used to paint an image of the range in which Watt will end in these respective statistics.
Pittsburgh star Edge Rusher finished fourth from the defensive player of the year of the AP last year, although he did not record a escape or a forced bag in four of his last five games despite the leadership of the League in the first category with six and totaling 11.5 in the second.
If the evaluation by Clay de Watt turns out to be exact, he finished with his fewer quarter-back withdrawals during a season during which he played more than 10 games outside his recruit campaign in 2017.
In addition, Clay’s projections have watt picking up a bag every 90.495 snaps, which would lead to the third price of his career to this point.
Its total tackle of 60 would also be the lowest in a year during which it is suitable for more than 10 games since 2020.
Watt remains one of the most feared defenders in the League, although 30 years old, he could continue to decrease rather than reach the same peaks as he did when he won the defensive player of the year in 2021 or to be appointed four times in the first All-Pro team over a period of five years from 2019 to 2023.
The Steelers have not yet resolved its contractual situation while it is entering the last year of its current agreement, and it remains to be seen if they give it a marketing agreement which would exceed Myles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns Pact while paying it more than $ 40 million per season.
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