Osa Odighizuwa

From 2 sacks as a rookie to 18 career sacks — Osa has gone from rotational 3-tech to one of the league's most consistent interior pressure men.

Five seasons in Dallas, all as a starter by Year 2. Osa's sack totals look modest in isolation (18 career), but the 85 career QB hits tell the real story — he's been a high-frequency pocket disruptor since 2022. The 2024 leap (4.5 sacks, 23 QB hits) earned him the four-year extension, and 2025 essentially repeats that profile with 23 more QB hits and 3.5 sacks.

23 QB hits in 2025 — top-10 among all DL, and tied with Karlaftis just behind Chris Jones.

Osa's 23 QB hits in 2025 sit him tied for 10th among all defensive linemen — a list otherwise made of edge stars and Chris Jones. The sack-to-QB-hit ratio is unusual: Osa's 3.5 sacks vs 23 QB hits means he's getting home one out of every ~7 hits, well below average. Either bad luck on takedowns or quarterbacks getting the ball out a beat early against him.

Solo tackles dropped from 24 → 15 in 2025, but assists jumped from 22 → 28 — a snap-count and role-shift signature.

The combined-tackle total holds steady (43-47 across the last four years), but the solo/assist mix flipped in 2025 — fewer clean stops, more piling on. That's consistent with the Cowboys deploying him more frequently in even-front gap shoots where he absorbs blockers and lets LBs finish the play. The QB hits prove he's still penetrating; he just isn't the one wrapping up.

85 career QB hits in 5 seasons — among interior pass rushers, that pace puts him on a Hall-of-Very-Good trajectory.

Osa entered the NFL in 2021 and has logged 85 career QB hits through 5 seasons. For context, Chris Jones over his last 5 years has 137. But Osa's per-season rate of 17 QB hits/year is already top-15 territory among all interior DL since 2021, and his back-to-back 23-hit seasons in 2024-25 mark the inflection point where 'rotational pass rusher' becomes 'cornerstone 3-tech.'

The four-year extension he signed before 2025 — $87.75M ($58.5M guaranteed) — was the call on that profile. Through one season under the new deal, he repeated the QB hit total exactly.

Zero passes defensed in 4 of 5 NFL seasons — Osa lives entirely in the trenches, never tipping passes.

Across 353 charted defensive participations and 5 seasons, Osa has just 1 pass defensed, 0 fumble recoveries, 0 INTs. He's not a hand-up batting threat or a ball-finder — every grain of his impact is concentrated in the QB hit and TFL columns. 36 career TFLs and 85 QB hits, almost no off-script splash plays. That's a clean profile for a pure interior pass rusher.