Making a change at the punter position was not something that appeared to be necessary for the Jets entering the 2020 offseason. In 2019, the Jets’ punting unit was the fourth-best in the NFL according to Football Outsiders’ DVOA. In 2018, it ranked 14th-best.
Those units were led by Lachlan Edwards. While Edwards was an unspectacular punter who rarely did anything flashy, he slowly developed into a player who managed to work in tandem with his coverage team well enough to produce quality results.
Here was the main question surrounding Edwards – was he actually a solid punter, or was he bailed out by an excellent coverage team?