Player
Justin Eboigbe
DL · Chargers
Justin Eboigbe: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
Year-1 inactive most weeks → year-2 leading the Chargers DL in sacks.
TrendEboigbe by season
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles (Solo+Ast) | Sacks | TFL | QB Hits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | LAC | 2 | 2 (1+1) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | LAC | 15 | 39 (27+12) | 6.0 | 7 | 10 |
Alabama DL, 6th-round pick in 2024. Active for only 4 games as a rookie (inactive 13 weeks) — that's not a small role, it's a redshirt year.
The 2025 jump is one of the largest year-1 to year-2 leaps for a Day-3 DL pick in recent memory: from 2 tackles to 39 tackles, 6 sacks, 7 TFL, and 10 QB hits.
QB pressures (sacks + QB hits) per season
| Season | Pressures |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 16 |
6 sacks — 4th-most among all 2024-draft DLs in their second seasons.
Rare2024-draft DL sack leaders, 2025
| Player | Team | Sacks | Draft Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Dorlus | ATL | 7 | 4 |
| Laiatu Latu | IND | 7 | 1 (#15 overall) |
| Byron Murphy II | SEA | 7 | 1 (#16 overall) |
| Justin Eboigbe | LAC | 6 | 6 (#181 overall) |
| Austin Booker | CHI | 5 | 5 |
| Braden Fiske | LA | 5 | 2 |
The 3 players ahead of him on the list include two top-16 picks. Eboigbe was #181 overall — a 6th-round pick from Alabama who fell because of injury concerns.
Matching first-round production at a 6th-round price tag is the value home-run the Chargers' new front office has been chasing on the DL.
Led the Chargers DL in sacks in 2025 — 6, with no other LAC DL above 1.
ComparisonLAC DL sack leaders, 2025
| Player | Sacks |
|---|---|
| Justin Eboigbe | 6 |
| Jamaree Caldwell | 1 |
| Teair Tart | 1 |
| Da'Shawn Hand | 1 |
The Chargers' edge production this year came from Khalil Mack and Tuli Tuipulotu. From the interior, Eboigbe alone provided as many sacks as the rest of the DL combined times two.
In a year-2 step, this is the production curve teams hope to see from rookies they redshirted — Eboigbe sat behind Sebastian Joseph-Day and Morgan Fox in 2024 and earned 15 active games immediately when the staff cleared his path.
Multi-sack games in Week 8 (vs MIN, 2.0) and Wild Card (vs JAX, 2.0).
SplitEboigbe 2025 splash plays by week
| Week | Splash |
|---|---|
| 3 | QB hit |
| 4 | 1.0 sack + TFL + QB hit |
| 5 | 1.0 sack + TFL + QB hit |
| 8 | 2.0 sacks + 3 QB hits + 2 TFL |
| 10 | QB hit |
| 11 | QB hit |
| 13 | TFL |
| 18 | 2.0 sacks + 2 QB hits + 2 TFL (Wild Card) |
His Week 8 game against the Vikings is the breakout marker — 2 sacks, 3 QB hits, and 2 TFLs in a single afternoon.
He then closed the year by doing it again in the Wild Card round vs Jacksonville — 2 sacks, 2 TFL, 2 QB hits in his first career playoff start. 4 of his 6 regular-season sacks came in 2 games (Weeks 4 and 8). When he hits, he hits in waves.
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