This week PJ Hall came down with an illness that was going around the team. It apparently was concerning enough that Jon Gruden outright said that Corey Liuget would be making his debut at defensive tackle in place of Hall. That didn’t happen. Far from it, actually.
Come game time, not only was Hall playing, he was given the start. He took the field ahead of draft classmate Maurice Hurst alongside Johnathan Hankins. Hurst would rotate in, like the third DT always does, but Hall would finish with 38 snaps (60%) to Hurst’s 33 (52%).