The duo of Dexter Lawrence and Leonard Williams is the engine driving success for the NFL’s No. 2-ranked red-zone and third-down defense.
It’s suddenly cool again to be a defensive tackle.
Lawrence, 25, is coming off the best game of his career: Five quarterback hits, two shared sacks to up his career-high season total to five and a forced offensive holding penalty to take a touchdown off the scoreboard. One game earlier, it was the 28-year-old Williams with eight tackles, five quarterback hits and a sack.
While Lawrence is enjoying a fourth-year breakout to validate his first-round draft status, success is not completely new to Williams, who made a Pro Bowl in 2016 and had a career-high 11.5 sacks in 2020 to earn a three-year, $63 million contract extension. One of the many big decisions awaiting in the offseason is whether to keep the two together or save $12 million against a $32 million salary cap charge by cutting Williams — perhaps redirecting the money to extend Lawrence beyond 2023.
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