It turned out to be 85 games and two Achilles’ ruptures between AFC Defensive Player of the Week awards for Bengals cornerback Leon Hall and it shows how much his game has evolved.
When he won it in the next-to-last week of the 2008 season with a club-record three interceptions in Cleveland, he was a second-year player just beginning a very good career as one of the top every-down cornerbacks in the NFL. But he rarely played in the slot. According to profootballfocus.com, that season he played just 111 snaps in there and when Chris Crocker solidified his role in the slot in 2009, Hall played it just 12 times.