{"id":588578,"date":"2026-04-16T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/588578\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:40:07","slug":"ucf-de-malachi-lawrence-met-with-16-nfl-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/588578\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF DE Malachi Lawrence met with 16 NFL teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida edge rusher Malachi Lawrence was busy during the pre-draft process.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence had top-30 visits with 16 teams, according to Aaron Wilson of KPRC, as the 2025 All-Big 12 selection traveled to the 49ers, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs, Colts, Commanders, Dolphins, Jets, Falcons, Raiders, Ravens, Saints, Seahawks, Titans and Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence projects as a late first-round or early second-round selection next week.<\/p>\n<p>He played left and right defensive end in his five seasons at UCF, starting the past two seasons in Orlando. <\/p>\n<p>In 2025, he led the team with 11 tackles for losses, seven sacks and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence finished his career with 20 sacks, 72 tackles, 28 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n<p>He ran a 4.52 in the 40-yard dash and had a 40-inch vertical jump and a 10-10 broad jump at the Scouting Combine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida edge rusher Malachi Lawrence was busy during the pre-draft process. Lawrence had top-30 visits with 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-588578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}