Alex Wright

Year 4 breakout — 5.5 sacks, 12 TFL, 9 QB hits in 2025 after an injury-shortened 2024.

The 2022 3rd-round pick out of UAB has had a non-linear development arc: a quiet rookie year, a 5-sack flash in 2023, a lost 2024 season to injury, and a breakout 2025 with 5.5 sacks and 12 TFL in a rotational EDGE role behind Garrett and Smith.

The 2025 stat line is the most complete of his career: career-high TFL, career-high QB hits, and the second 5-sack season of his career.

His 12 TFL in 2025 nearly double his career TFL total entering the season.

He entered 2025 with 9 career TFL across 3 seasons. He then put up 12 TFL in 2025 alone — more than the first three years combined. That kind of single-season explosion is the signature stat for an EDGE who's finally been turned loose with full snaps.

Behind Myles Garrett on the Browns' EDGE depth chart — and still producing real disruption stats.

Cleveland's EDGE room in 2025 includes Myles Garrett, Za'Darius Smith, and Wright as the primary rotation. Across 18 tackles, 12 TFL, 9 QB hits, Wright is producing a disruption-per-tackle ratio higher than most starting EDGEs leaguewide:

- 12 TFL on 18 tackles = a 0.67 ratio. Most starting EDGEs run 0.20–0.35. - 9 QB hits on 18 tackles = a 0.50 ratio. Top pressure EDGEs run 0.30–0.45.

The pattern says: he's a designed-pressure piece, not a snap-eater. Every time the Browns get him on the field, he's hunting the backfield.

His 2023 (5 sacks) and 2025 (5.5 sacks) seasons together make him a 10.5-sack career producer — strong for a 3rd-rounder.

11.5 career sacks through 4 seasons as a Day-3 pick is value-extraction territory — that's the Browns' draft return on a 78th-overall pick in 2022.

The 3 career forced fumbles and 20 QB hits round out the profile: an EDGE rotational who finishes when the rep gives him a chance.

In 2024 he played just enough to record 1 sack on 4 tackles — the entire year fits on one stat line.

The 2024 season for Wright was effectively a lost year to injury: 4 tackles, 1.0 sack, 1 QB hit, 1 TFL across the entire season. That's a single solid week of production from a typical EDGE rotation.

The context matters for 2025 — coming back from a year off and immediately posting a career-high TFL line is the rare positive recovery curve for a young EDGE.

The Browns rotate three EDGEs with 5+ sacks each in 2025 — Wright is the cheapest of the three.

Wright's 5.5-sack 2025 season would make him a starter on roughly half the league. In Cleveland he's the 3rd EDGE behind Garrett and Smith — a luxury problem.

The cap context: he's on his rookie 4-year contract, scheduled to hit free agency or arbitration in 2026. The Browns' decision next offseason is whether to lock in a rotational EDGE producing 5+ sacks at rookie-deal rates — or let the market reward what 2025 just demonstrated.