While Reed got the game ball, he saw it more as a recognition for the entire defense, which did everything it could to keep the Seahawks in the lead on a night the offense wasn’t able to produce more than a pair of field goals. There were sacks from six different players: Reed, Williams, Devon Witherspoon, Derick Hall, Rayshawn Jenkins and Uchenna Nwosu, as well as three more tackles for loss for Witherspoon, and, of course, a game-clinching interception by Riq Woolen.<\/p>\n
“That could have went to anybody, and I’m grateful he gave it to me,” Reed said of his coach’s recognition. “I’ve been here practically my whole career, it’s home for me, and I’d love to stay.”<\/p>\n
When Macdonald was asked about Williams’ big game, which brought his sack total up to 9.0, the second best of his 10-year career, Macdonald praised both Williams and Reed.<\/p>\n
“He’s meant a ton,” Macdonald said of Williams. “I gave J-Reed the game ball because he’s really leading us up front with those guys. It’s the edges and the D-line in the same room and really follow J-Reed’s lead and Leo has done a great job leading them as well. Yeah, I mean, he should be up for all the accolades. I don’t know what the awards are out there, but I would give it to him. You know, I mean, he’s just a phenomenal player, phenomenal human being. I’m glad he’s a Seahawk. Glad he’s with us.”<\/p>\n
In addition to his nine sacks, which are 2.5 shy of his career high set in 2020, Williams is now up to 15 tackles for loss this season, a new career high, and 26 quarterback hits, the second most in his career behind the 30 he had in 2020.<\/p>\n
“All-Pro level, All-Pro talent, Pro-Bowl talent,” Nwosu said of Williams. “That’s what he’s been, he’s been able to do that. He was the No. 6 overall pick for a reason. He’s always had it in him, he always could do it, and I’m happy he’s doing what he’s doing right now. He deserves all the recognition, because he’s playing at a high level.”<\/p>\n
As he approaches and eclipses some of his career-best marks, Williams sees his 10th NFL season, and first full season in Seattle, as being one of his best.<\/p>\n
“I think this is definitely one of my best seasons,” he said. “I had a better season, stat wise, but I think this year has been more dominant. When I say that, it’s not all about the stats and things like that, to me it’s more just how I’m playing blocks, how I’m affecting every play. And I think when you turn on the film, you’d be able to see that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Reed got the game ball, he saw it more as a recognition for the entire defense, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,509,8487,21543,507,506,6,43362],"class_list":{"0":"post-221583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-hero","14":"tag-jarran-reed","15":"tag-leonard-williams","16":"tag-news-national-feature","17":"tag-news-stories","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-seattle-seahawks-at-chicago-bears-2024-reg-17"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114884652999844189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}