Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar will write about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, it’s time to recognize Seattle Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones, who has become the heart of Seattle’s new Legion of Boom-ish defense, and the franchise’s most important player at his position since Bobby Wagner.

The home of the NFL’s best defense may change from week to week in the 2025 season (is it in Jacksonville? Atlanta? Seattle?), but one requirement transcends geography: These great defenses must have tone-setting linebackers. That’s true of Jacksonville’s Devin Lloyd, it’s true of Atlanta’s Divine Deablo (which the Falcons discovered the hard way when Deablo was injured last S

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