DeMarvion Overshown

One healthy season — 2024 — produced 53 tackles, 8 TFL, 5 sacks before a torn ACL ended it.

A 3rd-round pick in 2023, Overshown tore his ACL in his preseason debut and missed his entire rookie year. The 2024 season was the real arrival: 53 tackles, 8 TFL, 5 sacks, 4 PDs, 1 forced fumble in 13 games.

The production rate was rare for a first-year LB. Then in Week 14 of 2024, he tore the ACL, PCL, and MCL on the same knee — a devastating multi-ligament injury. The 2025 totals (15 tackles) reflect a late-season return from the second major surgery.

In 13 games of 2024 he posted a stat line on par with All-Pro pace for a 24-year-old LB.

Pro-rated to a full 17-game season, Overshown's 2024 line was 69 tackles, 10 TFL, 6.5 sacks, 5 PDs — Pro Bowl-level production from a 1st-year contributor.

The 5 sacks came as a hybrid edge/inside blitzer in Mike Zimmer's Dallas defense, paired with 4 PDs and 1 forced fumble — a do-everything coverage-LB-meets-pass-rusher profile teams covet at the modern second level.

Two ACL tears in two years — first in his preseason debut (Aug 2023), then his rookie game-13 in 2024.

Two season-ending knee injuries on the same right knee — first the ACL alone in August 2023, then a multi-ligament tear in Week 14 of 2024 that took out the ACL, PCL, and MCL together.

The second injury is among the more serious LB injuries of the past decade. Overshown returned in late 2025 for limited snaps, which is itself a notable timeline — most multi-ligament reconstructions take 12-14 months minimum.

Two ways Overshown finished plays in 2024: 5 sacks as a blitzer, 4 PDs as a zone defender.

The 2024 stat split shows a true 3-down LB:

- Rush plays: 8 TFL on stops at or behind the LOS - Pass-rush: 5.0 sacks on blitz packages (plus 5 QB hits) - Coverage: 4 PDs and an interception attempt (no INTs)

For a rookie playing his first NFL games, the balance of production across phases is unusual. Most rookies anchor in one area (run defense or coverage) and grow the others later.

In the 2023 draft LB class, only Drew Sanders had a higher first-season sack total — and Overshown beat him on a per-game basis.

Overshown's 5.0 sacks in 13 games of 2024 translates to a per-game rate (~0.38) that outpaces almost every LB in his draft class as a first-year contributor. Comparable totals from the same draft cohort took 2-3 full seasons to reach.

If the knee returns, his ceiling is the kind of hybrid edge/LB role that Micah Parsons turned into Defensive Rookie of the Year a few years before. The 2024 sample isn't large, but the production density makes the projection real.

A 5-sack, 4-PD rookie season is exceedingly rare — only a handful of LBs since 2010 match it.

The 5+ sacks AND 4+ PDs rookie line is hit by roughly 2-3 LBs per decade. The comp set typically includes Lavonte David, Darius Leonard, and Roquan Smith — all multi-time Pro Bowlers/All-Pros.

Overshown's 2024 lands him in that statistical company on a per-game basis. The lasting question is whether the knee can hold up over a 4+ year sample, because the talent layer is clearly already there.