“I’m glad, you know, what I have now,” McDonald said. “I now know that I can be able to be that 10-plus sack guy, and keep going up from there.”
McDonald leads the Jets with 10 sacks this season — an impressive jump from his rookie campaign, during which he logged just three in limited playing time.
McDonald’s sack count is the 10th-best mark in the league.
Jets defensive tackle Quinnen Williams has the team’s second-most sacks with six.
Will McDonald IV is pictured during the Jets’ practice on Dec. 26.Bill Kostroun for the NY Post
But with two games remaining on the Jets’ schedule, McDonald knows it’s unlikely he’ll reach his target of 18 sacks.
“I got a higher standard for myself than everybody else,” said McDonald, who aims to break the Jets’ record of 22 sacks in a single season set by Mark Gastineau in 1984. “So for me, it’s still good but it’s not what I wanted to be, and it’s not how I wanted to finish out the season.”
Then again, it’s a start.
