The 2019 NFL season is almost drawing to a close which means that it will soon be time for players to be recognized with the annual NFL honors.

The Arizona Cardinals will look to have one of their players receive one of those honors when the award for NFL Defensive Player of the Year is given out. That player is none other than Arizona Cardinals All-Pro linebacker Chandler Jones.

Jones has been a force in the league since the New England Patriots was drafted him with the No. 21 pick from of Syracuse University in 2012. Jones spent the first four seasons with the Patriots before being traded to the Cardinals in 2016 where he would go on to manage double-digit sacks each season with the Cardinals and would become a force on the Cardinals’ front seven.

Chandler Jones currently leads the league in sacks with 19.0 and has a great chance to break Michael Strahan’s single-season of 22.0. Let’s take a deeper look into why Jones should easily be the NFL’s Defensive of the Year.

The Resume

Chandler Jones has been a force to be reckoned with this year but has not received the national recognition that he has deserved.

As stated earlier, Jones leads the NFL in sacks with 19.0. That total is almost three sacks more than the next defender which is Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquill Barrett who sits at 16.5 sacks on the year. Jones has a realistic shot to obtain the single-season sack record of 22.5 if he gets four sacks in a game against the Los Angeles Rams in the season finale. Jones has reached the four-sack mark twice this year in games against the New York Giants in Week 7 and their Week 16 meeting against the Seattle Seahawks. The star edge-rusher only ended up with 0.5 sacks in their previous Week 12 matchup against Los Angeles but still got to Rams quarterback Jared Goff twice overall.

Chandler Jones also leads the league in forced fumbles with eight. This means that he causes a fumble on almost every two sacks. His combination of finesse and bone-crushing hits have been pivotal in winning the turnover battle.

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