According to reports, Boye Mafe, off his busy season on the edge for Super Bowl champion Seattle, is bringing his pressure to the Bengals as free agency rolled on Monday.
The 6-4, 261-pound Mafe racked up 44 pressures and 40 hurries this season, via Pro Football Focus, which would have led the Bengals as they look to fortify Myles Murphy and Shemar Stewart on the edge.
Mafe, the 40th pick in the 2022 draft out of Minnesota, has had a nine-sack season, a six-sack season, and in last month's Super Bowl had three of Seattle's 21 relentless pressures of Patriots quarterback Drake Maye.
According to PFF, Mafe has 146 pressures over the past three seasons as well as 41 run stops, which rate in the top third for both categories among NFL edges.
Seattle head coach Mike Macdonald called Mafe the club's quickest off the snap on one of the NFL's quickest edges when he met the Seattle media at last month's NFL scouting combine.
"I think Boye played really good football for us," Macdonald told the Tacoma News Tribune. "I mean, for the guys that we had in our roster, and then him taking the role that he had was great. The way he plays the edge is a great compliment to the rest of the guys."
