The Jets' newly acquired defensive lineman T'Vondre Sweat has been tagged with several nicknames, some of them complimentary, some less so. Consider the man-mountain has been called meatloaf and pot roast. Immediately after the Green & White sent Jermaine Johnson to the Tennessee Titans for Sweat, NFL Network's Brian Baldinger took a different tack, calling him "T-Pain" when he praised the trade.

If the Jets employ more of a 3-4 defensive front, HC Aaron Glenn and D-line coach Karl Dunbar expect Sweat (6-4, 366) to bring the pain to the opposition.

"Nobody can stop him when you have a guy that's that big with the feet," said Turron Davenport, the ESPN Nation Tennessee Titans reporter. "He was a big-time hooper in the Houston area [Sweat is from Huntsville, TX]. He got a lot of rebounds. That takes that footwork and to be that big and move the way he does." He added: "He has some sweet feet."

Sweat, 24, was selected by the Titans No. 38 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft. He played in all 17 games his rookie season and had 51 total tackles (22 solo), a sack and 4 TFL while taking 66% of the snaps on defense. After his first season, Pro Football Focus graded him a 75.0 overall against the ground attack, the eighth-best in the NFL among the 99 qualifying defensive tackles.

He was limited to 12 games last season after he sustained an ankle injury in Week 1 at Denver, missed a game, returned and re-injured the ankle and ended up on injured reserve until mid-October.

"He's a talented player and he's a guy that's going to get you tackles for losses and all of that," Davenport said. "It's just a matter of playing a lot of snaps, being healthy and just being well conditioned. And that's something that he worked on his rookie year, and it just continued like when he played, when he was out there. So he's a good player."

In his fifth and final season in college playing for Texas, Sweat won the Outland Trophy as the nation's top interior defensive lineman. He had 45 total tackles (18 solo), 8 TFL, 2 sacks, 4 PDs, and was credited with 28 total pressures (23 hurries, 3 hits, plus those pair of sacks).

"I think he could be one of the best run stoppers in the league because I've seen this guy push an O-lineman into the running back," Davenport said. "He didn't get credit for the tackle because he never tackled the back. He just knocked the guard into him. He has a really good swim move that he uses to get in the backfield quickly. And when you're a guard or an interior lineman, and you're used to absorbing that bull rush, you ghost it and swim like that, and now that's just another way to get to the quarterback. I think he could be one of the best run stuffers in the league."

Davenport acknowledged that Sweat needs to be motivated. That's a job that will fall to Dunbar, who returns to the Jets after eight years in Pittsburgh after having served as Rex Ryan's D-line coach from 2012-14.

"It's an awesome move because I think that change of scenery was needed," Davenport said. "I'm not going to say he didn't take it seriously. I think he needs to take it more seriously. That sense of urgency has to be heightened. So you got somebody that's going to beat his behind, we'll say, every day, and just really ride him. And that's what he needs. He needs hard coaching.

"So T'Vondre is one of those guys that's really, really talented, and sometimes it's like, he doesn't really realize it."