New York Jets DL Leonard Williams Admits To Being Out Of Shape After First NFL Game

When you are taken with the sixth pick of the NFL draft you are expected to play right away, and New York Jets defensive lineman Leonard Williams has. He was in on five tackles Sunday in his NFL debut against the Cleveland Browns.

However, he thinks he can play much better and has admitted to not being in good enough shape.

Leonard also getting the better of Bitonio more often than not disposing at will for the AT here. pic.twitter.com/7kXkCjZrKA

— Brandon Thorn (@VeteranScout) September 15, 2015

This is what Williams had to say about his debut:

“I don’t feel like I played to my best abilities, to be honest,” Williams said. “I think part of it is just conditioning. I feel like in college we did a lot of conditioning. It’s kind of like up to myself now to take care of that on my own, like after practice.”

Head coach Todd Bowles was a little more understanding than Williams was about his limitations:

“I thought he got winded because I thought emotionally he was too high,” Bowles said. “You come out and you’ve got spit on the side of your mouth and you’re slobbering and you’re in warm-up in pregame. That is typical to happen to a rookie the first time out. They come out hyperventilating.”

If he was amped up for his first game last week, just imagine how he is going to be for his first nationally televised game Monday night against the Colts.

[NYPost]

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