It wasn’t fairly like his breakout sport towards the New York Giants final season, however second-year cornerback Devon Witherspoon was phenomenal towards the Chicago Bears.
Witherspoon recorded three tackles for loss, tying a profession excessive, and recorded his first sack of the season by ushering Caleb Williams out of bounds for no acquire. Nobody goes to recollect the sack, however anybody who watched the remainder of his highlights is aware of that Witherspoon dominated Chicago all through the sport.
Of Witherspoon’s six tackles, 5 had been for a most of two yards. Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Baldinger broke down Witherspoon’s spotlight reel from Thursday evening’s win.
“Yeah, I imply, this man is the chief on our — it’s his second yr and he’s grown a lot as a frontrunner and somebody we’re going to rely upon for a very long time right here,” Mike Macdonald mentioned within the post-game press convention. “We love him, and it’s due to the power and the competitiveness and the particular person and his love of the sport and love for his teammates. It’s infectious. How are you going to not play 1000% when 21 is on the sphere doing the stuff that he does? We discuss pressure multiplier. He’s a pressure multiplier. Comfortable he received a sack. Wasn’t fairly, however he received one, and actually blissful for him.”
Witherspoon has seven passes defensed, six tackles for loss, no interceptions, and one sack. Whereas he doesn’t have the counting stats essentially to mirror his in any other case excellent season, however there’s no denying his expertise and efficient aggression on the sphere. He’s a really enjoyable chess piece to have and Mike Macdonald is aware of it simply as a lot as Pete Carroll did, which is why the Seahawks made the uncommon transfer of taking a cornerback within the first spherical.
