All Chandler Jones needs to do to reach NFL royalty is get one sack a game and find a way to get seven more over the course of a full, 16-game regular season. It sounds simple enough. The math is easy. If Jones hits those numbers, the Cardinals’ outside linebacker would finish with 23 sacks.
Except it’s never been done before, at least not officially.
Oh, there are tales of how former pass-rushing greats such as David “Deacon” Jones, Al “Bubba” Baker and Coy Bacon may have had 23 or more sacks in a single season. But there just isn’t any definitive proof on the subject because the NFL didn’t start accurately tracking the statistic until 1982.