The key to any good pass rush is getting off the ball as quickly as possible. The faster your reaction to the snap of the football, the better chance you have of getting to the quarterback and causing havoc. As it turns out, the Jets have a couple of players that are pretty darn good at getting off the ball.
ESPN’s Seth Walder noted the top 10 players in terms of the fastest average pass-rush get-off according to Next Gen Stats. Two of those 10 players — two of the top seven, in fact — are from the Jets, including the No. 1 player on that list, Bryce Huff. The other is Carl Lawson.
Huff was one of only two players in the league to have an average time under 0.7 seconds to cross the line of scrimmage. Huff came in with 0.67 seconds on average, followed by Browns defensive end Myles Garrett. Not too bad for a player that played a limited role this past season.
Lawson tied for sixth on the list with Cincinnati’s Trey Hendrickson at 0.76 seconds. The only other players ahead of them besides Huff and Garrett all had 0.75 seconds. They were Josh Sweat of the Eagles, T.J. Watt of the Steelers and Justin Houston of the Ravens.
Rounding out the top 10 were Von Miller of the Bills (0.77), Yannick Ngakoue of the Colts (0.77) and Robert Quinn of the Eagles (0.78).
Interestingly enough, the Jets have decisions to make on both Huff and Lawson. Huff is about to become a restricted free agent, so it’s a matter of how much they want to pay him. Lawson is under contract for 2023, but the Jets have to decide if they want to pay him $15 million next season coming off a seven-sack season. This stat only further fuels both players’ arguments for getting extensions this offseason.
