Edge rusher Dante Fowler received a pitch from Demarcus Lawrence that pushed him to sign with the Seattle Seahawks.
“If you want to win a Super Bowl, you should come here,” Fowler said, relaying Lawrence’s message after signing a one-year contract, via the team’s official website.
The message echoes Lawrence’s own statements last season that Dallas would have to leave in order to finally have playoff success, saying at the time that “I know for a fact I’m not going to win a Super Bowl there.” His message was prophetic and helped Seattle elevate Lombardi in his first season with the club.
Lawrence and Fowler spent two seasons together in Dallas (2022 and 2023) and are now reuniting in Seattle.
“It was amazing, just being able to play with him the last few years,” Fowler said. “The legacy he left (in Dallas), when he left, that was a big thing, and to see him come here and see how great he played — he was very healthy, he took this defense to another level and he won a Super Bowl, something he’s been talking about since I met him. So it was really cool to watch him in this situation.”
Another familiar face to Fowler is defensive coordinator Aden Durde, whose time as defensive line coach in Dallas overlapped with both Lawrence and Fowler. Last year, Lawrence said he recognized Durde to help him develop in Seattle. Folwer, who also spent a year with Durde in Atlanta, hopes to follow suit.
“He knows what he’s talking about, he’s a general, and he makes guys want to run through a wall for him,” Fowler said of Durde. “He knows what it takes, he knows how to push you to where you need to go and he knows how to get the best out of his players.”
Fowler, who is just a year away from a double-digit season in 2024, joins an OLB group in Seattle that includes Larence, Uchenna Nwosu and Derick Hall.