Defenders
Counting stats from the play-by-play credits. These say who made plays, not how well a player covered or held the point.
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Click a column to sort. Shown: players credited with a defensive play in at least half their team’s games.
How these are computed
- Sacks count half sacks as 0.5. Tackles = solo + assisted, on all plays including special teams (as the NFL counts them); the last column shows the special-teams part.
- QB hits start in 2006; passes defensed and tackles for loss in 2009 (earlier seasons show what the play-by-play has).
- There are no snap counts yet, so these are totals, not rates.