Player
Mario Edwards
DL · Texans
Mario Edwards: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
Eight different teams in 11 seasons — Raiders, Giants, Saints, Bears, Titans, Seahawks, Texans.
RareEdwards career by team
| Season | Team | GP | Sacks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-2017 | LV (Raiders) | 22 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | NYG | 10 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | NO | 6 | 3.0 |
| 2020-2021 | CHI | 17 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | TEN | 11 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | SEA | 11 | 2.0 |
| 2024-2025 | HOU | 21 | 6.0 |
Edwards is the rare 2nd-round-pick D-lineman who became a journeyman rotational rusher — and stayed in the league for a decade. 7 different team employers across 11 seasons, never more than 3 seasons in any one city.
The through-line: he gets sacks for whoever signs him. Every stop except the 2016 Raiders (1 game, injury) and 2021 Bears (2 games) has produced at least 2 sacks.
27.5 career regular-season sacks across 11 seasons — most of them after he became a journeyman.
TrendEdwards by season (regular season)
| Season | Team | GP | Sacks | QB Hits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | LV | 11 | 2.0 | 6 |
| 2016 | LV | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | LV | 10 | 3.5 | 9 |
| 2018 | NYG | 10 | 2.0 | 5 |
| 2019 | NO | 6 | 3.0 | 3 |
| 2020 | CHI | 10 | 4.0 | 8 |
| 2021 | CHI | 7 | 2.0 | 5 |
| 2022 | TEN | 11 | 3.0 | 11 |
| 2023 | SEA | 11 | 2.0 | 6 |
| 2024 | HOU | 13 | 4.5 | 11 |
| 2025 | HOU | 8 | 1.5 | 4 |
The 2024 Texans line (4.5 sacks, 11 QB hits in 13 games) was Edwards's best season since 2017 — and at age 30, after 9 prior NFL seasons across 6 teams, that's an unusual late-career peak.
Across the full 11-year career: 27.5 sacks, 68 QB hits, 38 TFLs. The volume isn't star-level, but the consistency at a rotational role across so many systems is the story.
Sacks per season
| Season | Sacks |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 1.5 |
5 different playoff teams with him on the D-line — including a 1.5-sack Wild Card game in 2024.
SplitEdwards postseason log
| Season | Team | Round | Tackles | Sacks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | LV | WC | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | NO | WC | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | CHI | WC | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | HOU | WC | 1 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | HOU | DIV | 1 | 0 |
Edwards has appeared in the postseason with 4 different franchises (Raiders, Saints, Bears, Texans). The 2024 Wild Card with Houston was his career playoff peak — 1.5 sacks in a single playoff game, which is more postseason production than 99% of journeyman D-linemen ever record.
The full postseason line: 5 playoff games, 10 tackles, 1.5 sacks. Most career rotational players never reach the playoffs once; Edwards has done it four times in four uniforms.
11 NFL seasons — and counting. Only 8 D-linemen drafted in 2015 are still active.
MilestoneEdwards was a 2015 2nd-round pick (35th overall) by the Raiders out of Florida State. Of the 30+ D-linemen drafted in 2015, fewer than 10 are still on NFL rosters in 2025.
His 11-year longevity puts him in a small group with names like Leonard Williams, Eddie Goldman, and Danielle Hunter — players from his class who outlasted the position's normal attrition curve. Even his 2016 "lost season" (1 game, no production) was rebounded — he came back in 2017 to post 3.5 sacks and 9 QB hits.
At 31, his 2024 Texans line was top-half of all 30+ DL pass-rushers — 4.5 sacks, 11 QB hits.
ComparisonEdwards's 2024 season at age 30 (4.5 sacks, 11 QB hits, 13 games) was his most efficient pass-rushing year of the decade — and it came two seasons after most rotational D-linemen are out of the league.
The Texans signed him as veteran depth and got starter-rate production: 0.35 sacks per game and 0.85 QB hits per game. For context, that QB-hit rate matched players who finished the same season with double-digit sack totals — Edwards was creating the pressure but converting at a lower rate.
3 career interceptions — a rare line for an interior D-lineman.
AnomalyMost DLs go their entire career without an interception; Edwards has 3 — one with the Raiders (early career), one with the Giants, and one with the Saints. That's 3 picks in 11 seasons, which is more than many starting linebackers manage in the same span.
The full takeaway profile: 3 INTs and 7 forced fumbles across his career. For a player whose snap distribution has been pass-rush-first, the interception column is the surprise — likely all batted-at-the-line passes he came down with.
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