{"id":576392,"date":"2026-04-10T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:19:08","slug":"kyle-brandt-predicts-massive-season-for-energized-lamar-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576392\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Brandt Predicts \u2018Massive Season\u2019 for \u2018Energized\u2019 Lamar Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Chiefs Defensive End Says Jackson Has Been &#8216;Figured Out&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when it comes to Jackson, some disproved narratives die hard.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the talk several years ago that the league had &#8220;figured out&#8221; Jackson? Inexplicably, there are those who still hold that opinion even after Jackson had one of the best seasons ever for a quarterback in 2023 and nearly \u2013 and should have \u2013 won his third MVP award in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>When Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Charles Omenihu was praising Josh Allen during an appearance on &#8220;Speakeasy,&#8221; he compared the Buffalo Bills quarterback with Jackson, contending that the league has solved Jackson but hasn&#8217;t done so with Allen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you&#8217;ve figured out Lamar. You come after him, you close all the lanes, you five-man rush him, and you cover his guys,&#8221; Omenihu said. &#8220;And I think you get it done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, you don&#8217;t. Jackson had a league-best 91.9 passing grade against the blitz in 2025, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/premium.pff.com\/nfl\/positions\/2025\/REGPO\/passing-pressure?position=QB&amp;split=blitz&amp;minimum=50p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per Pro Football Focus<\/a>, with 13 touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs Defensive End Says Jackson Has Been &#8216;Figured Out&#8217; Unfortunately, when it comes to Jackson, some disproved narratives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,257,2593,14382,2589,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-576392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-general","10":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","11":"tag-lamar-jackson","12":"tag-late-for-work","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaafootball","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}