We all expected more out of rookie defensive end Leonard Williams, didn’t we?
How could we not after being sucked in by the power of the NFL hype machine, which churns at its highest RPMs during the league’s annual draft?
When the Jets picked Williams in the first round out of USC, the legions of NFL draft “experts’’ across the cable-TV nation raved on about how he was the best player in the draft class and how much of a steal he was at No. 6 overall.
With that came the requisite unrealistic projections of production — double-digit sacks, dominant force in the running game, Pro Bowl as a rookie and so forth.