As rookie linebackers in 2018, Shaquille Leonard and Zaire Franklin were roommates on the road. Prior to their second game in the NFL, Franklin got sick – and he was snoring so loud at night the only place Leonard could find enough relief to sleep was in the bathtub of the hotel room they shared.

Despite his porcelain mattress, Leonard went out the next day against Washington and had 19 tackles with a sack, a pass break-up and a forced fumble. Those 19 tackles stood – and will stand – as the most he ever had in a game.

Nothing could stop Leonard, it seemed. He won the 2018 AP Defensive Rookie of the Year, was named a first-team AP All-Pro three times and made three Pro Bowls. He's the only player in NFL history to total 15+ sacks, 15+ forced fumbles and 10+ interceptions in a 60-game spa

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