Ben Niemann

LB · KC/ARI/DEN/DET · 2018–2024

Born July 27, 1995 · College Iowa · Undrafted · 6-2, 235 lb

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	Sacks	QB hits	Tackles for loss	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2018	KC	4	10	0.0	0	0	0	0
2018 playoffs	KC	1	2	0.0	0	0	0	0
2019	KC	13	56	0.0	1	1	1	0
2019 playoffs	KC	3	7	0.0	1	0	0	0
2020	KC	12	44	1.0	3	3	0	1
2020 playoffs	KC	3	12	0.0	0	0	0	0
2021	KC	17	57	1.0	1	2	1	0
2021 playoffs	KC	2	5	0.0	0	0	0	0
2022	ARI	16	70	0.0	1	2	1	0
2023	DEN	1	2	0.0	0	0	0	0
2024	DET	11	25	0.0	0	0	1	0
Career	DET	74	264	2.0	6	8	4	1

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2018	KC	6	–	–	62	15.0
2018 playoffs	KC	1	–	–	8	14.5
2019	KC	15	–	–	392	38.1
2019 playoffs	KC	3	–	–	81	41.3
2020	KC	15	1	1.5	458	46.3
2020 playoffs	KC	3	–	–	108	54.3
2021	KC	17	1	1.3	547	49.7
2021 playoffs	KC	3	–	–	52	26.3
2022	ARI	16	2	1.4	477	46.5
2023	DEN	1	–	–	1	1.5
2024	DET	13	2	1.4	176	24.5

Game logs

2024 game log (11 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
3	2024-09-22	@ ARI	W 20–13	2	0
4	2024-09-30	vs SEA	W 42–29	2	0
7	2024-10-20	@ MIN	W 31–29	1	0
8	2024-10-27	vs TEN	W 52–14	2	0
10	2024-11-10	@ HOU	W 26–23	2	0
11	2024-11-17	vs JAX	W 52–6	2	0
12	2024-11-24	@ IND	W 24–6	1	0
13	2024-11-28	vs CHI	W 23–20	1	0
15	2024-12-15	vs BUF	L 42–48	5	1
16	2024-12-22	@ CHI	W 34–17	4	0
17	2024-12-30	@ SF	W 40–34	3	0

2023 game log (1 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
16	2023-12-24	vs NE	L 23–26	2	0.0	0	0

2022 game log (16 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
2	2022-09-18	@ LV	W 29–23 OT	1	0
3	2022-09-25	vs LA	L 12–20	2	0
4	2022-10-02	@ CAR	W 26–16	3	0
5	2022-10-09	vs PHI	L 17–20	4	0
6	2022-10-16	@ SEA	L 9–19	1	0
7	2022-10-20	vs NO	W 42–34	4	0
8	2022-10-30	@ MIN	L 26–34	5	0
9	2022-11-06	vs SEA	L 21–31	4	1
10	2022-11-13	@ LA	W 27–17	6	0
11	2022-11-21	vs SF	L 10–38	7	0
12	2022-11-27	vs LAC	L 24–25	4	0
14	2022-12-12	vs NE	L 13–27	5	0
15	2022-12-18	@ DEN	L 15–24	3	0
16	2022-12-25	vs TB	L 16–19 OT	10	0
17	2023-01-01	@ ATL	L 19–20	2	0
18	2023-01-08	@ SF	L 13–38	9	0

2021 game log (19 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2021-09-12	vs CLE	W 33–29	3	0.0	0
2	2021-09-19	@ BAL	L 35–36	3	0.0	0
3	2021-09-26	vs LAC	L 24–30	3	0.0	0
4	2021-10-03	@ PHI	W 42–30	3	0.0	0
5	2021-10-10	vs BUF	L 20–38	2	0.0	0
6	2021-10-17	@ WAS	W 31–13	3	0.0	0
7	2021-10-24	@ TEN	L 3–27	4	1.0	0
8	2021-11-01	vs NYG	W 20–17	4	0.0	0
9	2021-11-07	vs GB	W 13–7	1	0.0	0
10	2021-11-14	@ LV	W 41–14	2	0.0	0
11	2021-11-21	vs DAL	W 19–9	2	0.0	0
13	2021-12-05	vs DEN	W 22–9	5	0.0	1
14	2021-12-12	vs LV	W 48–9	3	0.0	0
15	2021-12-16	@ LAC	W 34–28 OT	9	0.0	0
16	2021-12-26	vs PIT	W 36–10	8	0.0	0
17	2022-01-02	@ CIN	L 31–34	1	0.0	0
18	2022-01-08	@ DEN	W 28–24	1	0.0	0
P19	2022-01-16	vs PIT	W 42–21	3	0.0	0
P21	2022-01-30	vs CIN	L 24–27 OT	2	0.0	0

2020 game log (15 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
2	2020-09-20	@ LAC	W 23–20 OT	9	0.0
3	2020-09-28	@ BAL	W 34–20	2	1.0
4	2020-10-05	vs NE	W 26–10	2	0.0
5	2020-10-11	vs LV	L 32–40	2	0.0
6	2020-10-19	@ BUF	W 26–17	3	0.0
7	2020-10-25	@ DEN	W 43–16	2	0.0
8	2020-11-01	vs NYJ	W 35–9	2	0.0
9	2020-11-08	vs CAR	W 33–31	4	0.0
13	2020-12-06	vs DEN	W 22–16	2	0.0
14	2020-12-13	@ MIA	W 33–27	5	0.0
15	2020-12-20	@ NO	W 32–29	8	0.0
16	2020-12-27	vs ATL	W 17–14	3	0.0
P19	2021-01-17	vs CLE	W 22–17	1	0.0
P20	2021-01-24	vs BUF	W 38–24	2	0.0
P21	2021-02-07	@ TB	L 9–31	9	0.0

2019 game log (16 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
2	2019-09-15	@ LV	W 28–10	3	0
3	2019-09-22	vs BAL	W 33–28	2	1
5	2019-10-06	vs IND	L 13–19	10	0
6	2019-10-13	vs HOU	L 24–31	6	0
7	2019-10-17	@ DEN	W 30–6	6	0
8	2019-10-27	vs GB	L 24–31	4	0
10	2019-11-10	@ TEN	L 32–35	1	0
11	2019-11-18	@ LAC	W 24–17	4	0
13	2019-12-01	vs LV	W 40–9	3	0
14	2019-12-08	@ NE	W 23–16	4	0
15	2019-12-15	vs DEN	W 23–3	4	0
16	2019-12-22	@ CHI	W 26–3	3	0
17	2019-12-29	vs LAC	W 31–21	6	0
P19	2020-01-12	vs HOU	W 51–31	4	0
P20	2020-01-19	vs TEN	W 35–24	1	0
P21	2020-02-02	vs SF	W 31–20	2	0

2018 game log (5 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
9	2018-11-04	@ CLE	W 37–21	2
10	2018-11-11	vs ARI	W 26–14	6
11	2018-11-19	@ LA	L 51–54	1
16	2018-12-23	@ SEA	L 31–38	1
P20	2019-01-20	vs NE	L 31–37 OT	2