NFL Network Projects Ahmad 'Sauce' Gardner as 2022 NFL Pro Bowler

The rookie is already a top-five cornerback in the NFL.

CINCINNATI — This season's NFL Pro Bowl is likely getting a dose of Sauce.

NFL Network named Ahmad "Sauce" Gardner the second-most likely player to make their first career Pro Bowl.

"Since Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Ronnie Lott was elected to the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 1981, there have only been five rookie cornerbacks to get the nod (Charles Woodson, Devin McCourty, Marcus Peters, Marshon Lattimore, and Denzel Ward)," the Next Gen Stats Analytics Team wrote. "Gardner looks primed to become the sixth. One of our can’t-miss prospects heading into the draft, Sauce has acclimated to the league faster than even his biggest advocates could have imagined.

"Gardner is already one of the premier shutdown cornerbacks in the league, recording a league-high 13 passes defensed this season. Opposing quarterbacks have lost -26.3 expected points added this season targeting Gardner, which ranks second in the NFL and is already the best mark by a rookie CB in a season during the Next Gen Stats era (since 2016). Fifteen years after drafting Darrelle Revis, it appears the Jets have found another corner who will trap opposing receivers on an island for years to come."

The projection adds to the growing legend of Sauce's rookie campaign. 

He is changing the ceiling for the New York Jets defense and has his team in the thick of a playoff race.

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