T.J. Watt may have been snubbed two years running for the prestigious Defensive Player of the Year Award, but he had received the next-best thing, which is the recognition of Nick Shook, an NFL Network writer who listed him as the top disruptor in the NFL for the 2020 season, ahead of the likes of Aaron Donald, Joey Bosa, and Myles Garrett, whose economic stratosphere he will soon breach.
The metric Shook uses is simple: disruption rate, which he defines as the total number of plays, by percentage of total pass-rush snaps played, in which a player registers a sack, hit, or hurry (or multiple on one play, counting as one disruption snap).