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After Week 6, Maxx Crosby and Jonah Laulu both share the team lead in sacks with four each.
Laulu, the team's second-year defensive tackle, picked up his fourth sack of the season in the first quarter against the Titans, hitting a spin move inside to get to Cam Ward. Laulu also had three total tackles and a pass deflection on the day. He's the first Raiders defensive tackle to record four sacks in his first six games of a season since Bill Pickel in 1986.
"Jonah is playing his ass off," Maxx Crosby said. "He's making more and more plays every week."
Crosby had two sacks of his own Sunday, his first game with multiple sacks since Week 5 last year against the Denver Broncos. This was also his 14th career game with 2.0+ sacks, passing Howie Long (13) for the second most of such games in franchise history, since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
"I'm just blessed to play with such a great competitor as him," Devin White said of Crosby. "Everybody knows how talented he is, but people don't know how much work he puts in. ... He make that choice every day to be up that early and sacrifice everything to go be the greatest on the field."
It also can't go without mentioning AJ Cole and the role he played in the defense's success. Coming into the game questionable with a right ankle injury, he still played lights out with four punts downed inside the 20-yard line. It was first time he had as many punts inside the 20 since Week 17 of the 2023 season.
"His ankle's still sprained, but he got a couple kicks in on Friday, showed that he could do it, went out there and did a great job," Pete Carroll said. "And we had in this game, a part of the game that I love, we had a couple opportunities to sink him back in there, and we did it, and we factored into how he played."