J.J. Watt takes aim at NFL sack recordWith two games left to play, Texans defensive end J.J. Watt has his sights set on the NFL single-season sack record.
Watt has 19.5 sacks through 14 games, tied with San Francisco’s Aldon Smith for the league lead. He needs 3.5 sacks to break the record of 22.5 set by Michael Strahan of the New York Giants in 2001.
“It would mean a lot,” Watt said on Saturday. “It’s definitely on the goal list, but there are much bigger goals out there. My goal has been to have one of the greatest seasons of all-time, so that’s something that I could do to help reach that goal, but number one, first and foremost, my goal is always to win a Super Bowl no matter what.”
Watt already has made history by becoming the first player with at least 15 sacks and 15 passes defensed (he has 15) in the same season. His 34.5 combined sacks and passes defensed are the most ever, ahead of the 32.0 (2.0 sacks, 30 passes defensed) by 1993 AP Defensive Player of the Year Rod Woodson.