What Jared Verse must work on to turn into nice

There is just one participant within the NFL who has missed extra tackles this season than Jared Verse, and that participant is a linebacker with greater than twice as many whole tackles as Verse. There are solely two gamers within the NFL with a better missed sort out fee (missed tackles/tackles) than Verse and each of them are cornerbacks.

Does Jared Verse have a flaw in his recreation in terms of over-pursuing, wrapping up, ending sacks, shedding include, and lacking tackles?

Most likely.

However given his distinctive bodily benefits, this might be a fixable difficulty that signifies that Verse might turn into an elite edge rusher sooner or later. Nevertheless presently, on this 12 months, the 24-year-old has a lot left to repair earlier than he turns into nice.

Right here is Verse’s recreation log with the missed tackles highlighted:

As you may see, this isn’t solely contained to the primary month or two of the season. In response to Professional-Soccer-Reference, Verse missed three tackles final month towards the Eagles, then three extra two weeks in the past towards the Payments.

These groups are laborious to sort out.

However Verse doesn’t havae a sack in any of his final 5 video games and he doesn’t have a stress in three of the final 5. In actual fact, he has extra missed tackles (6) than pressures (5) since Week 10’s loss to the Miami Dolphins.

Turf Present Instances posted this query to Twitter seeking to verify with Rams followers if additionally they discover Jared Verse’s potential “tackling issue”:

Jared Verse is listed with the 2nd most missed tackles and the Third-highest missed sort out fee.

Does this line up with what you’ve got seen?

— TurfShowTimes (@TurfShowTimes) December 18, 2024

The solutions:
YES.

He’s too aggressive for his personal good. I like how aggressive he’s however he wants to manage that and never overshoot tackles

— Gabe Campos (@GabeCampos1499) December 18, 2024

He’s been nice, however it’s apparent that he wants loads of work. He’s all the time within the again area and simply misses the QB or RB. He doesn’t know the right way to hold include.

— HotChocolateFF (LAR 8-6) (@HotChocolateFF) December 18, 2024

He’s missed a bunch of tackles early on…simply must wrap up and end

— Sandy Kaup (@STLSandman) December 18, 2024

It was actually actually apparent towards the cardinals and eagles. It allowed hurts and Murray to scramble for infinity and get a cross in. I’ll have to return and watch some newer video games to see if he’s improved.

— LetsGoRAMS.LA (@LetsGoRAMS_LA) December 18, 2024

Sure, all the time the primary within the again area however cant appear to ever maintain on for the sort out. I feel he’ll get higher at this, powerful for a rookie, these guys a lot stronger than what they’re used to

— x- Ajjjjj (@aj_derosa) December 18, 2024

Sure. He’s too quick for his personal good, however the recreation will decelerate for him. I’m hyped to see that occur

— Ty Talks (@TyTalksPOD) December 18, 2024

Verse has the Fifth-most pressures within the NFL (62) behind Hunter, Hendrickson, Garrett, and Younger
Verse has a better stress fee (16.9%) than gamers like Chase Younger, Brian Burns, Chris Jones, Will McDonald, Jonathan Greenard, Josh Hines-Allen, Maxx Crosby, Will Anderson, and Nick Bosa
Verse has a mean “Get-Off” of 0.82 seconds, which is quicker than Burns, Jones, McDonald, Hines-Allen, and solely a tick behind Danielle Hunter (0.81) and Crosby (0.80)

Together with his energy and fast get-off, Verse has the instruments to be one of many top-10 edge rushers within the NFL, if not top-5.

However Subsequent Gen Stats notes that yeah, Verse is just not having as a lot of an impression recently as he did within the first two months of the season. As Blaine Grisak wrote final week, that might be the rookie wall. He may be dealing with tougher matchups than he did up to now and groups now have a ebook on Verse, the right way to neutralize him, that possibly they didn’t have earlier than.

With the Jets on deck, Aaron Rodgers appears quite a bit simpler to sack than Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts. So possibly Verse can break the streak this week, as a substitute of breaking the sort out.