T.J. Edwards

Edwards is the steady voice in the middle: instinctive, physical and usually around the football before the play has fully declared itself. The key question is simply how quickly he is fully back from the fibula injury.

Strengths: Instincts, tackle production, communication, route awareness and leadership.

Weaknesses: Recent injuries interrupted his 2025, and he is not a pure sideline-to-sideline speed linebacker.

Edwards is the stabilizer in the middle. Even with an injury-shortened season, he had 67 tackles, five breakups and a pick-six; the three prior years each showed how reliably he finds the ball. He sees run concepts early, takes clean angles and gets people down. I have him at an eight because he is 30 and not built to run with every fast tight end in space, but the instincts and tackling make him one of the defense's safest players.

Strengths: Edwards diagnoses quickly, tackles cleanly and organizes the front. His instincts let him beat blocks to the spot, and he has enough coverage awareness to produce interceptions and breakups rather than merely rack up stops.

Weaknesses: Age and the 2025 injury warrant workload caution. He lacks elite recovery speed against dynamic receivers in open space, so offenses can try to isolate him with vertical route combinations.