Steelers OLB T.J. Watt ties Michael Strahan’s NFL single-season sack record during regular-season finale vs. Ravens

Pittsburgh Steelers extracurricular linebacker T.J. Watt enactment his stamp successful the past books by tying erstwhile New York Giants antiaircraft extremity Michael Strahan’s NFL’s single-season sack grounds of 22 ½ during Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Ravens.

With 28 seconds near successful the archetypal half, Watt ducked nether the artifact effort of Ravens close tackle David Sharpe and brought down backmost Tyler Huntley connected first-and-goal. In the archetypal quarter, Watt had what looked similar a strip-sack negated erstwhile it was ruled Huntley had an aborted drawback and a fumble.

Watt, a four-time Pro Bowl enactment and doubly a archetypal squad All-Pro who entered the crippled with 71 vocation sacks successful 76 games, failed to get different sack successful the 2nd fractional to decorativeness the play tied with Strahan.

Strahan acceptable the grounds successful 2001 and did it successful 16 games. Despite the NFL regular play present being 17 games, Watt played successful conscionable 15 arsenic helium missed some the Steelers’ Week 3 crippled against the Bengals with a groin wounded and their Week 11 crippled against the Chargers with hep and genu injuries.

Detroit Lions’ Al Baker has the unofficial grounds of 23 successful 1978. Sacks were not an authoritative stat until 1982.