In Week 11, the New York Jets made their first non-injury-related offensive line change of the season. They benched fledgling right guard Greg Van Roten in favor of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (known as “LDT” for short), who was recently acquired from Kansas City.
I broke down the numbers behind Duvernay-Tardif’s first start as a Jet in a previous article.
The stats suggested that Duvernay-Tardif had a great day in the run game and was a clear upgrade over Van Roten in that phase. However, they also suggested he had a brutal afternoon in pass protection that equaled Van Roten’s lowest valleys of the year.