Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar writes about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we focus on Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman DeMarcus Lawrence, who has come back from a last lost season with the Dallas Cowboys to his new status as the tone-setter for the NFL’s nastiest defense.

DeMarcus Lawrence isn’t really underrated in a career sense. Selected in the second round of the 2014 draft out of Boise State, the 6’3, 265-pound Lawrence has put up 69 sacks and 475 total pressures in a remarkable 11-year career with the Dallas Cowboys. And the Seahawks certainly weren’t underrating him when they gave him a three-year, $32.5 million contract with $18 million guaranteed this

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