Las Vegas Raiders: 5 biggest surprises of 2022 thus far
By Sean Basile
Las Vegas Raiders: 5 biggest surprises of 2022 thus far
The pass rush has drastically underperformed
Heading into the 2022 NFL season, the pass rush duo of Maxx Crosby and Chandler Jones was supposed to be one of the best in football. It was a duo that I felt was going to be consistent in terms of getting after the quarterback, but through the first six games, only one-half of the duo has stepped up.
Maxx Crosby has himself six sacks with 16 pressures, but the Raiders are now tied for dead last in team sacks with just nine.
If there was going to be a strength to this Raiders defense, I felt good about it being the pass rush, but unfortunately, it appears Crosby is out there on his own, and one man is not going to make a pass rush overly successful. I don’t care who that man is.
Chandler Jones is a potential Hall-of-Famer and he only has a half-sack to his credit with six quarterback hits and is on track to have the worst season of his career by a longshot. I knew he wasn’t going to have his fastball still, but this has been shocking.