Odafe Oweh

Three flat years, then everything broke loose: his sack total nearly doubled in 2024.

The first three years all hovered in the same place: 5, 2, 5 sacks. Then 2024 jumped to 9 sacks on 23 QB hits — nearly double his career rate — and 2025 has carried over (7 sacks, 18 hits, 9 TFL). The QB-hit volume is the giveaway: 41 hits across 2024-25 is more pressure production than he generated in his first three years combined.

16 sacks across 2024-25 — 9th-most in the NFL during that window.

He sits 9th in the NFL in sacks over the last two seasons — ahead of T.J. Watt (17 across 24-25) and a full tier above the rest of his 2021 draft class. No EDGE outside the top 8 of that list has produced more pressure-snaps, and Oweh did it as a rotational rusher for most of 2024.

The 2021 EDGE draft class: Parsons is the alien, but Oweh is alone in the chase pack.

He's tied with Kwity Paye at 28 career sacks — second in the class behind Parsons — but the QB-hit gap is the real story: 79 hits to Paye's 50 says Oweh has been the more consistent pressure source, even if the finishing rate took until year 4 to follow.

The 2021 EDGE class was supposed to be deep. Instead it's bifurcated: Parsons is alone at the top, and four players (Oweh, Paye, Rousseau, Phillips) are within 4 sacks of each other for second.

Mid-season trade to the Chargers — and the move unlocked him.

He went 0 sacks in his first 5 Ravens games of 2025, then was dealt to the Chargers and produced 7 sacks across the next 12 weeks — including 2-sack games in Week 9 (TEN) and Week 15 (KC). The trade closed his Baltimore chapter at 28 career sacks in 4.3 seasons and reframes him as a contract-year EDGE on a defense in playoff position.

His two biggest games came one year apart — both 2 sacks, 4 QB hits.

Across 71 career regular-season games he has four multi-sack outings, all in 2024-25. The 2024 PIT game (2 sacks, 4 QB hits) remains his pressure peak — the kind of disruptive ceiling that started the contract-year conversation.

In Baltimore he was the #2 pass rusher — always one slot below the headline.

On the Ravens during 2024-25 he produced 9 sacks — second on the team behind Van Noy (14), and slightly ahead of Madubuike's 7. That's the role he kept being asked to play in Baltimore: the reliable 7-9 sack complementary rusher next to a veteran headliner. The Chargers trade is his first real shot at being the EDGE-1.