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Lawrence

Lawrence has started 13 of the 25 games he’s appeared in since entering the league in 2020, totaling 30 tackles and four TFLs. He started all five games he appeared in last season before a shoulder injury ended his campaign. Lawrence could provide added depth along another team’s defensive line now that he’s been released.

“Questionable” and “cart” don’t usually go together. We would expect Lawrence’s night to be through. The run-plugger has been playing 30-35 weekly snaps.

Lawrence was injured in the Week 3 loss to the Rams. The 2020 fourth-rounder has played 44% of the defensive snaps up front for Arizona through three weeks and has recorded one forced fumble.

The No. 131 overall pick of the draft, Lawrence was active for the first five games of the season before landing on injured reserve. He had contributed 89 snaps. That rate could grow for the final five weeks of the season with the Cardinals dealing with some injury issues up front.

Lawrence (6’2/308) was a three-year captain and starting defensive lineman at LSU who earned second-team All-SEC honors as a senior. He totaled 2.5 sacks and 6.0 TFLs during the Tigers’ National Championship campaign, though he had better production as a junior (4.0 sacks, 10 TFLs). He looks the part and has the strength to fill rushing lanes, but he has an injury history and is a 31st percentile adjusted SPARQ athlete with awful agility scores. Lawrence will need to turn his on-field energy into better technique to be an NFL contributor. Until then, he’ll hope for rotational work as a run-plugging backup.