Set the all time single season sack record and was then traded to a roster that lost a conference title game by four. The record was set on a team that went nowhere.

85 quarterback pressures and 35 quick pressures at an 8.0 percent rate, produced while being chipped at 22.7 percent, the third highest rate in the league.

Four years and 112 million dollars, signed within days of Baltimore's trade for a different pass rusher collapsing on a physical.

Two first round picks went back the other way when the deal was reversed on medical grounds. The only rank on this board that is a question about an MRI.

Returning from an ACL tear on a front that lost Mykell Williams to one as well, so both edges rebuild at once.

The centerpiece of the Garrett return, on a roster with no offensive reason to be watched.

Cincinnati traded a top 10 pick for him, the first time the franchise has done that in the common draft era.

Extended this offseason on a front that produced inconsistent pressure and just lost Devin Lloyd behind it.

A 2025 Pro Bowler who skipped most of the voluntary program in an unresolved extension standoff.

Half of a safety pairing with Jessie Bates III on the one Atlanta unit that did not need fixing.

ACL return on a front that needs one of its two edges to hold up.

Arrived alongside Lawrence in the same rebuild, on the defense that has wasted three years of Burrow.

Called the unit that held New England to 13 points in a Super Bowl.

A second round pick into a secondary that already had three starters, opposite his brother.

First full NFL offseason after a rookie year that was always going to be developmental.