Isaiah McGuire

31 career tackles, 5.5 sacks, 4 FFs in 3 seasons — the Browns' 4th-EDGE who keeps hitting takeaways.

The 2023 4th-round pick out of Missouri was a quiet rookie. Then 2024 went sideways in the best way: 2.5 sacks, 8 TFL, 9 QB hits, and 3 forced fumbles in a rotational role.

2025 has been a near carbon-copy of 2024: 13 tackles, 8 TFL, 2.0 sacks, 6 QB hits, 1 FF. Two consecutive years of 8 TFL is a sustained production signal that the rookie year didn't predict.

Years 2 and 3 are nearly identical — 8 TFL each, 5-6 QB hits each.

The consistency of 2024 and 2025 is the highlight — 8 TFL in each season, with sacks and QB hits both in the same range. For a rotational EDGE, that's the stable producer profile that earns a 2nd contract over a flashier one-year wonder.

His TFL count is unusually high vs his tackle count — 16 TFL on 31 career tackles is a 51% conversion rate.

More than half of every tackle McGuire makes is for a loss. That ratio (51% career, 61.5% in 2025) is the fingerprint of a designed run-stuffer EDGE — a player whose snaps are mostly on run downs or stunts where the offense's path of least resistance runs through him.

League-average EDGE TFL-per-tackle ratio is around 15–20%. McGuire is 2.5–3× that.

4th-round pick. 5.5 career sacks. 4 FFs. The kind of mid-round EDGE return that pays the draft budget.

For a 4th-round pick (126th overall in 2023), McGuire's career line — 31 tackles, 5.5 sacks, 16 TFL, 4 FFs — is well into surplus-value territory. Most 4th-round EDGEs don't make a roster past year 2.

In a Browns EDGE room where Garrett dominates the resources and Za'Darius Smith and Alex Wright take the next two slots, McGuire's role is to be the rotational ball-tracker who creates extra takeaways — and the FF rate confirms he is.

3 FFs in 2024 — tied for top-10 among all NFL EDGEs that season, in a rotational role.

His 2024 season produced 3 forced fumbles, tied for top-10 among all NFL edge rushers that year. The Browns produced that finish from him on just 14 tackles' worth of snaps — meaning every other snap he was on the field, he was hunting the ball, not the QB.

That's an unusual statistical signature: most 3-FF seasons in the NFL come from 30+ tackle, full-time starters. McGuire did it on a snap allocation half that size.