Usage / Role
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Regular defensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2022-2025UCF
Malachi Lawrence
EDGE • 6'4" • 250 lbs • Louisville, KY, USA
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Malachi Lawrence shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for an edge defender
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Reliability
58
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
93
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · UCF
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- UCF
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Baylor
Player Story
Malachi Lawrence built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as an edge defender from Louisville, KY wearing No. 51, spending time with UCF. The clearest part of Malachi Lawrence's career was his defensive...
Read the storyNFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 1 · Pick 23
- Overall
- No. 23
- NFL Team
- Dallas Cowboys
Malachi Lawrence, EDGE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · UCF. Malachi Lawrence shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.7 disruption score.
Quick Answers
Malachi Lawrence quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UCF · EDGE
- Career Tackles
- 69
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 32 games
- Best season
- 2023 Postseason · UCF
- Top game
- Baylor
- High school pipeline
- Pittsburg · 24 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 1 · Pick 23 · Dallas Cowboys
- Latest roster
- No. 51 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 28 tackles · EDGE 14th (top 29%) · Big 12 168th (top 23%) · National 1,521st (top 25%)
Malachi Lawrence played EDGE for UCF. Across 4 tracked seasons, Malachi Lawrence recorded 69 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UCF.
Recognition
Honors
- 20252025 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionfirst
- 20252025 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionhonorable mention
- 20232023 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionhonorable mention
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