The 2025 season is a crucial one for Steelers DL DeMarvin Leal — perhaps a do-or-die season. Entering the final year of his contract, he has done very little up to this point. While there have been some factors working against him, the NFL doesn’t wait for people. Many thought, or hoped, that last year would be his time to emerge, but it didn’t happen. He didn’t have much opportunity, either.
A third-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, DeMarvin Leal is a ‘tweener in the Steelers’ system. He is not the size of a traditional 3-4 defensive end, but they have played him everywhere.