DeMarcus Lawrence is a career quality starter — a linebacker whose body of work places Lawrence in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Lawrence's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.

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DeMarcus Lawrence

5× Pro BowlTop 20% all-time linebackersFranchise CornerstoneTeam Carrier · #406

Height6'3"

Weight254 lb

Born

Career Value · VORP

83 career value over replacement — #1422 all-time of 4,695. 6.9/season above a replacement-level LB.

Career Profile

1 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #34 (Rd 2) · DAL · 2014 · +5.2 vs expected KV-H

60actual

54.8 expected · Δ+5.2

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #406 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

1 qualifying season

2015 DAL·4 team wins#21

Sacks · 8 · score 15

All-Time Standing

how this career measures against the all-time greats at the position

Depth

of 100

Reached 34% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

34% of the all-time Sacks leader34

1 category ≥25% of the all-time leader33

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leader at this position. Built only from visible encyclopedia data — career production vs. the all-time leader, plus efficiency (EPA) and comparable-player confidence — so it's a transparent context score, not a subjective rating. Tiers: Elite ≥ 85 · Strong ≥ 65 · Solid ≥ 45 · Depth < 45. Comparable-player confidence: 94%.

Encyclopedia Coverage7/8 data layers

StatVault aggregates multiple open-licensed and proprietary sources into a single profile. The depth indicator above shows which layers are available for this player.

Bio & DraftBirth date, height/weight, draft round/pick, college — sourced from nflverse players.csv (CC-BY 4.0). Covers all NFL eras.

Season Stats (1999–present)Week-by-week box scores aggregated to season totals: passing, rushing, receiving, defense. Source: nflverse player_stats. Counting stats are exact; rates are derived.

Advanced (EPA, 1999–present)Not available for this player

Snap Counts (2012–present)Offensive, defensive, and special-teams snap counts with team-share percentages. Essential for OL and situational players. Source: nflverse snap_counts.

Where this data comes from

Modern-era stats (1999+) come from nflverse's open data releases. Pre-1999 seasons are backfilled additively from Wikipedia and NFL.com's own official season pages — never from rights-restricted sources.

nflverse — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution
NFL.com — Official league site; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Per-Snap Impact

Linebackers · proprietary · 2012+

Elite

SIS

Disruption / 100 snaps:5.733See leaderboard →

Disruption/1005.733Snap share60.4%Def snaps6,619ReliableCV 0.37

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within linebackers, shrinkage-regularized so small samples don't spike, over the NFL snap-count era (2012+).

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Combine · 2014

Percentiles compare each raw measurement against position peers, the full combine pool, and the same draft class where enough samples exist.

LB · 2014 class

4.80s

40-Yard

Low · 20th pct

Pos 20thAll 37thClass Pos 32thClass All 40th

34.5"

Vertical

Above avg · 55th pct

Pos 55thAll 61thClass Pos 43thClass All 61th

113"

Broad Jump

Understanding These Stats

Defense

Tkl / Solo / Ast — Combined tackles (Solo + ½ Assist). Solo = unassisted. Ast = helped by a teammate.

TFL — Tackles for loss — stops made behind the line of scrimmage (run stuffs + QB contain).

QBHits — QB hits — any legal contact on the quarterback, including but beyond sacks (hurries that land).

Sk — Sacks — tackled the QB behind the line for a loss. Half-sacks shared between defenders.

Dis — Disruption plays = sacks + QB hits + TFL. The composite pass-rush / run-stop impact stat for one season. Elite pass rushers post 30+ disruption plays per season.

Int — Interceptions caught by this defender.

PD — Passes defended — deflections and breakups.

FF / FR — Forced fumbles (stripped or jarred loose). Fumble Recoveries.

TD — Defensive touchdowns — picks, fumble returns, safeties returned.

Sfty — Safeties — tackled the ball carrier in their own end zone.

Snap Counts (2012–present)

Postseason Career

11 playoff games

Defense

Tkl32Solo20Ast12TFL11QBHits10Sk5.0Dis26.0PD2

College Stats

Boise State; Butler County JCCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Boise State; Butler County JC), but no parsed college box-score table is present in this profile artifact. The section stays here so every profile has a consistent college-stats landing point without fabricating unavailable rows.

Reference Graph

Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.

Top Teammates

Zack MartinG11y Tyron SmithOT10y Dak PrescottQB9y Ezekiel ElliottRB8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

DeMarcus inherited the Dallas Cowboys LB room from Sean Lee (2010–2020), and handed it to Micah Parsons (2021–2024).

Chuck Howley 1961–1972Mike Hegman 1977–1987Anthony Dickerson 1980–1984Eugene Lockhart 1984–1990DeMarcus Ware 2005–2013Anthony Spencer

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Movementderived from season history

2026final season
Last recorded season with SEA
2025team change
Joined SEA (from DAL)
2014draft
Drafted by DAL — Round 2, Pick 34

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'3" / 254 lb

Frame

251 lb at 4.80s

Size-speed

34.5" vert / 113" broad

Explosion

20 reps

Bench power

Knox

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Historical Knox · KV-H

Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 12-season peers. See all →

peak 60

Season Report Cards· KV-H era-normalized per season

F2014

C+2015

F2016

C+2017

C+2018

C+2019

B2020

D2021

B2022

C+2023

F2024

C+2025

Availability

Era Translator

Tackles translated to the 2025 NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.

Season	Actual Tackles	Tackles/G	→ 2025 Tackles	→ 2025 /G
2014	9	1.5	4-5	0.2
2015	51	3.2	36-15	2.1
2016	11	1.8	17+6	1
2017	57	3.6	48-9	2.8
2018	60	3.8	55-5	3.2
2019	44	2.9	43-1	2.5
2020	57	3.6	57	3.4
2021	19	2.7	43+24	2.5
2022	61	3.6	58-3	3.4
2023	47	2.9	49+2	2.9
2024	12	3	51+39	3
2025	52	3.3	55+3	3.3

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 10/18/2026

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

KV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — Era-normalized career rating 0–100 within position group, calibrated so a 50 = average starter and 90+ = all-time great. Covers 1999–present. Built on a 5-year IQR/robust-std era window.

SIS (Snap Impact Score) — Per-snap production z-scored within position group and era (2012+). Measures how much a player produced per opportunity, not raw volume.

VORP (Value Over Replacement) — Sum of max(0, season KV-H − positional replacement level) across a career. Measures career value above the minimum-roster baseline at each position.

Durability IQ — 0–100 score reflecting how many games a player played relative to peers at the same position in the same era. Adjusts for injury-shortened seasons.