At his introductory press conference in New York last year, defensive tackle Quinnen Williams said: “I’m just going to go out there and try to sack every last NFL quarterback.”

The third player picked in the 2019 NFL Draft ended up getting to three of them as a rookie – the Jacksonville Jaguars’ Gardner Minshew, Miami Dolphins’ Ryan Fitzpatrick and Pittsburgh Steelers’ Devlin Hodges.

In his first campaign for the New York Jets, Williams had 28 tackles (including four behind the line of scrimmage), six quarterback hits and one fumble recovery to go with his 2.5 sacks. He missed three games with ankle and neck injuries and played 46 percent of the Jets’ defensive snaps.

It wasn’t the type of rookie season that Williams envisioned after being a unanimous All-American and the Outland Trophy winner at Alabama in 2018.

“Not making the big plays,” Williams said about what his rookie season lacked during an appearance on “Boomer and Gio” on WFAN-AM in New York. “Just not doing great like I expected, not hitting the goals I expected.”

Williams’ 2019 performance has left him with a straightforward goal for the 2020 season.

“To get way better than I did my rookie season,” Williams told the Jets’ official website. “To do way better than I did. I said this season’s like a learning experience. For all my things I did wrong, all the things I learned from my wrong and different things like that, I’m going to take this in the offseason and work on it. Come back next season and not do the same things I did my rookie year wrong again.”

Williams said he did a lot of learning on and off the field, including the “different things that worked in college but won’t work in the NFL.”

“I'm just most proud of all the stuff I learned, all the stuff I took away from coming in,” Williams said about the highlight of his rookie season. “I'm a way better player than coming in since draft day. …

“On the field, everything's fast and things like that, so you have to learn on the run. Being on the sidelines -- like I don't want to be on the sidelines -- but being on the sidelines, you just learn from other people's mistakes, you learn from what other people do to make you a better player.”

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Williams said he has an offseason plan to help get his 2020 campaign off to a running start.

“I talked to coaches and players at the end of the year and the different things I need to work on,” Williams said. “During the offseason I’ll definitely dial in on that, definitely dial in on my nutrition and things that will help me be a better player throughout the whole game.”

The former Wenonah High School standout played in two seasons at Alabama, during which the Crimson Tide compiled a 27-2 record, won one national championship and played for another. The Jets had a 7-9 record in Williams’ first NFL season.

“I think the main welcome-to-the-NFL moment was Thursday night games, like going from Sunday night to Thursday night,” Williams said. “That was like, ‘Whoa, I’m in the NFL now’ because usually in college you go from Saturday to Saturday, so you have a whole week to recover.”

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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