\u2022 Greenard came into his own in Year 2 (2021) with the Texans, starting all 12 games he played and leading the team with eight quarterback sacks. Greenard had 33 total tackles, including nine for loss, 12 quarterback hits, and career highs in passes defensed (4) and forced fumbles (2). In that season, he recorded at least one sack in four consecutive games, tied for the eighth-longest streak in the NFL in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In 2022, Greenard played in eight games, starting four, and posted 16 total tackles, including six for loss, 1.5 sacks, four quarterback hits, one interception, one pass defensed, and a fumble recovery. He had his first career interception and returned it 39 yards for a touchdown at Indianapolis in Week 17.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The 2023 campaign was a breakout one for Greenard, who started all 15 games he appeared in, recording then-career highs in total tackles (52), tackles for loss (15), and sacks (12.5). He became the first Texan to record at least 10 sacks in a single season since J.J. Watt in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In his first year in Minnesota in 2024, Greenard earned Pro Bowl acclaim as he started all 17 of the Vikings’ regular season contests and recorded 59 total tackles, including 18 for loss, 12 quarterback sacks, 22 quarterback hits, three passes defensed, and four forced fumbles. His 59 tackles marked a single-season career high, as did his 18 tackles for loss and four forced fumbles. He earned NFC Defensive Player of the Month honors in November.<\/p>\n
There is, clearly, a lot to like about Greenard, who joins a room that includes Jalyx Hunt, who led the Eagles in quarterback sacks last season with 6.5; Nolan Smith, who had 3 sacks and 11 quarterback hits in 12 games last season; Arnold Ebiketie and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, who signed in free agency. It’s yet to be determined whether or not Brandon Graham will return for another season in green, but he remains on the roster.<\/p>\n
Get to the quarterback. Affect him. Move him off of his spot. Rush his internal clock. All of those things are what make Greenard, now a Philadelphia Eagle, a player who can impact the defense in the right kind of way for Vic Fangio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 Greenard came into his own in Year 2 (2021) with the Texans, starting all 12 games he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1792,78705,2196,7208,69,71,70,2197],"class_list":["post-176413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-all-news-archived","tag-jonathan-greenard","tag-nfl-com-feature","tag-on-the-inside","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-team-roster-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}