Stephon Tuitt missed most of the 2019 season due to a torn pectoral muscle. It put an end to what was shaping up to be perhaps the best season of his career up to that point. But he didn’t let it sidetrack him. He used it as an opportunity to grow in ways that don’t involve him being on the field, and he turned that into the performance we have seen from him through the first five games of the season: one of the most dominant interior defenders in the NFL.
The Notre Dame product has always seemed to teeter on the cusp of statistical and productivity greatness throughout his career, but there always seemed to be something that would impede him.