In the context of a game, an interception and runback for a touchdown is fantastic. In the context of a career, a sack would be better.



Leonard Floyd is being paid $15.7 million over four years to get sacks. He was taken with the ninth overall pick of the 2016 draft because the Bears thought he would get sacks.



Floyd, who had an interception return for a touchdown in the Bears’ destruction of the Bills in Buffalo on Sunday, is still looking for sack No. 1 of the 2018 season. Twelve of his teammates have at least one full sack and Floyd has rushed the passer more than any of them—184 times, according to Pro Football Focus.



Coaches often stand behind a microphone and say sacks are overrated. What’s more overrated are press conferences in which coaches say sacks are overrated.



Sacks matter. And so do pressures. According to Pro Football Focus, Floyd has 12 pressures, which ranks 80th in the...