It could be a fun exercise, even if fruitless, to piece together accomplishments by which to judge athletes. The Pittsburgh Steelers, for example, liked to tout outside linebacker T.J. Watt’s second season as the only player in the NFL last year to post at least 65 tackles, 10 sacks, and five forced fumbles.
Not that there weren’t plenty of players who recorded substantially more tackles, or who had more sacks and forced fumbles. But he was the only one to hit all of those marks. While arbitrary, it’s still an indication of how good of a season he had, at least based purely on statistics.