We’ve come a long way from T.J. Watt as a rookie, a young player with a family reputation to live up to who was relatively inexperienced at his position. Even as a first-round pick, he came in still with plenty left to learn, but he had the resources—both within himself and through his brothers and his teammates—to get up to speed in a hurry, quick enough to be a full-time starter on opening day.
Flash forward half a decade, and he is now one of the leaders of the defense, and certainly the leader of the edge rusher room, not to mention inarguably one of the great players of his era.