{"id":72999,"date":"2025-05-23T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/72999\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:59:20","slug":"seahawks-leonard-williams-makes-top-30-players-over-30-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/72999\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks&#8217; Leonard Williams makes &#8220;top 30 players over 30&#8221; list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> veteran defensive lineman Leonard Williams aged like fine wine throughout the 2024 season. In his 12th professional campaign, Williams recorded 11.0 sacks, the second-most of his career (11.5, 2020). He hit the ground running in Mike Macdonald&#8217;s defense, leading all NFL interior lineman in QB takedowns, outperforming talents like Chris Jones, Quinnen Williams, Dexter Lawrence, and Jeffery Simmons at his position.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was downright dominant. The former No. 6 overall selection in the 2015 NFL Draft totaled 55 pressures. Williams&#8217; form was recently recognized by Pro Football Focus, as the aging defender was named to their &#8220;Top 30 players over 30&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Williams delivered the best season of his career at age 30, earning a personal-best 87.1 PFF grade, fourth among qualified defensive tackles,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-top-30-players-over-30-entering-2025-nfl-season-derrick-henry-t-j-watt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dalton Wasserman wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dalton Wasserman wrote<\/a>. &#8220;It marked just the second time in his career that he posted at least a 70.0 grade in both run defense and pass rushing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Williams cracked the list at No. 21 overall. His eye-popping 2024 campaign earned him his first Pro Bowl nod since 2016. Williams signed a three-year, $64.5 million contract extension with the Seahawks last March. He earned every penny of that extension, and the Seahawks will be pleased to have him under contract through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Williams projects as another big-time difference maker for Macdonald&#8217;s defense in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/23\/30-top-nfl-players-over-30-seahawks-leonard-williams-makes-list\/83813929007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:30 Top NFL players over 30: Seahawks&#039; Leonard Williams makes list;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">30 Top NFL players over 30: Seahawks&#8217; Leonard Williams makes list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks veteran defensive lineman Leonard Williams aged like fine wine throughout the 2024 season. In his 12th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[4034,2025,3126,1489,7,10563,21543,2860,6,410,21673,6736,238,237,261,2635,8576],"class_list":{"0":"post-72999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-cameron-heyward","9":"tag-chris-jones","10":"tag-defensive-lineman","11":"tag-dexter-lawrence","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jeffery-simmons","14":"tag-leonard-williams","15":"tag-mike-macdonald","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-pro-football-focus","18":"tag-professional-campaign","19":"tag-quinnen-williams","20":"tag-seahawks","21":"tag-seattle","22":"tag-seattle-seahawks","23":"tag-seattleseahawks","24":"tag-tj-watt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114557509111523779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}