It’s no surprise that Stephon Tuitt has been a story this week. After all, he is coming off one of the best games of his career, during which he recorded two sacks, nine tackles, and three tackles for loss. Through seven games, he now has six sacks on the season, which is just half a sack behind his previous career-high mark set in 2015.
On top of that, he was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week, an award that he received just once before, back in 2016. Given the way he started out the 2019 season, however, it seems likely that he stood a good chance of winning it at some point last year, had he stayed healthy.