Brian Burns

LB · CAR/NYG · 2019–2026

Born April 23, 1998 · College Florida State · Drafted 2019, round 1, pick 16 (CAR) · 6-5, 250 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2025) · Pro Bowl ×3 (2021, 2022, 2025)

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
2019	CAR	12	25	7.5	16	5	0	1
2020	CAR	15	58	9.0	21	8	4	3
2021	CAR	16	50	9.0	18	13	4	2
2022	CAR	16	63	12.5	22	17	3	1
2023	CAR	16	50	8.0	18	16	2	1
2024	NYG	17	71	8.5	18	17	8	2
2025	NYG	17	67	16.5	31	22	7	3
2026	NYG	3	4	0.0	2	0	0	0
Career	NYG	112	388	71.0	146	98	28	13

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2021	Pro Bowl
2022	Pro Bowl
2025	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl

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
2019	CAR	16	1	1.4	457	42.6
2020	CAR	15	–	–	733	75.6
2021	CAR	17	–	–	818	77.8
2022	CAR	16	–	–	933	86.9
2023	CAR	16	–	–	796	84.3
2024	NYG	17	–	–	851	79.4
2025	NYG	17	–	–	848	78.2

Game logs

2026 game log (3 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
1	2026-09-13	vs DAL	W 28–20	2
2	2026-09-21	@ LA	L 6–28	2
3	2026-09-27	vs TEN	W 12–7	0

2025 game log (17 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2025-09-07	@ WAS	L 6–21	6	2.0	0
2	2025-09-14	@ DAL	L 37–40 OT	3	1.0	1
3	2025-09-21	vs KC	L 9–22	6	1.0	2
4	2025-09-28	vs LAC	W 21–18	5	1.0	0
5	2025-10-05	@ NO	L 14–26	3	0.0	0
6	2025-10-09	vs PHI	W 34–17	7	2.0	0
7	2025-10-19	@ DEN	L 32–33	4	2.0	1
8	2025-10-26	@ PHI	L 20–38	4	1.0	0
9	2025-11-02	vs SF	L 24–34	4	1.0	1
10	2025-11-09	@ CHI	L 20–24	5	0.0	1
11	2025-11-16	vs GB	L 20–27	5	2.0	1
12	2025-11-23	@ DET	L 27–34 OT	2	0.0	0
13	2025-12-01	@ NE	L 15–33	2	0.0	0
15	2025-12-14	vs WAS	L 21–29	1	0.0	0
16	2025-12-21	vs MIN	L 13–16	4	2.0	0
17	2025-12-28	@ LV	W 34–10	4	1.5	0
18	2026-01-04	vs DAL	W 34–17	2	0.0	0

2024 game log (17 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2024-09-08	vs MIN	L 6–28	4	0.0	0
2	2024-09-15	@ WAS	L 18–21	3	0.0	1
3	2024-09-22	@ CLE	W 21–15	3	1.0	2
4	2024-09-26	vs DAL	L 15–20	3	0.0	0
5	2024-10-06	@ SEA	W 29–20	2	1.0	2
6	2024-10-13	vs CIN	L 7–17	8	1.0	0
7	2024-10-20	vs PHI	L 3–28	4	1.0	1
8	2024-10-28	@ PIT	L 18–26	5	1.0	0
9	2024-11-03	vs WAS	L 22–27	5	0.0	1
10	2024-11-10	@ CAR	L 17–20 OT	9	1.0	0
12	2024-11-24	vs TB	L 7–30	3	0.0	0
13	2024-11-28	@ DAL	L 20–27	3	0.0	1
14	2024-12-08	vs NO	L 11–14	4	1.0	0
15	2024-12-15	vs BAL	L 14–35	2	1.0	0
16	2024-12-22	@ ATL	L 7–34	2	0.0	0
17	2024-12-29	vs IND	W 45–33	6	0.0	0
18	2025-01-05	@ PHI	L 13–20	5	0.5	0

2023 game log (16 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	@ ATL	L 10–24	7	2.0	0
2	2023-09-18	vs NO	L 17–20	2	0.0	0
3	2023-09-24	@ SEA	L 27–37	4	1.0	0
4	2023-10-01	vs MIN	L 13–21	1	0.0	0
5	2023-10-08	@ DET	L 24–42	4	1.0	0
6	2023-10-15	@ MIA	L 21–42	2	0.0	0
8	2023-10-29	vs HOU	W 15–13	1	1.0	0
9	2023-11-05	vs IND	L 13–27	4	0.0	0
11	2023-11-19	vs DAL	L 10–33	3	0.0	0
12	2023-11-26	@ TEN	L 10–17	4	1.0	1
13	2023-12-03	@ TB	L 18–21	1	0.0	0
14	2023-12-10	@ NO	L 6–28	1	0.0	0
15	2023-12-17	vs ATL	W 9–7	3	0.0	1
16	2023-12-24	vs GB	L 30–33	3	0.0	0
17	2023-12-31	@ JAX	L 0–26	8	1.0	0
18	2024-01-07	vs TB	L 0–9	2	1.0	0

2022 game log (16 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2022-09-11	vs CLE	L 24–26	8	0.0	0
2	2022-09-18	@ NYG	L 16–19	4	2.0	0
3	2022-09-25	vs NO	W 22–14	0	0.0	0
4	2022-10-02	vs ARI	L 16–26	7	1.0	0
5	2022-10-09	vs SF	L 15–37	2	1.0	1
6	2022-10-16	@ LA	L 10–24	3	0.0	0
7	2022-10-23	vs TB	W 21–3	5	1.0	0
8	2022-10-30	@ ATL	L 34–37 OT	7	0.0	0
9	2022-11-06	@ CIN	L 21–42	2	1.0	0
10	2022-11-10	vs ATL	W 25–15	7	1.0	0
11	2022-11-20	@ BAL	L 3–13	5	1.0	0
12	2022-11-27	vs DEN	W 23–10	3	2.0	1
14	2022-12-11	@ SEA	W 30–24	2	0.5	0
15	2022-12-18	vs PIT	L 16–24	3	0.0	0
16	2022-12-24	vs DET	W 37–23	2	2.0	1
17	2023-01-01	@ TB	L 24–30	3	0.0	0

2021 game log (16 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2021-09-12	vs NYJ	W 19–14	2	1.0	1
2	2021-09-19	vs NO	W 26–7	4	1.0	0
3	2021-09-23	@ HOU	W 24–9	3	1.0	1
4	2021-10-03	@ DAL	L 28–36	4	0.0	1
5	2021-10-10	vs PHI	L 18–21	2	0.0	0
6	2021-10-17	vs MIN	L 28–34 OT	6	0.0	1
7	2021-10-24	@ NYG	L 3–25	4	1.0	0
8	2021-10-31	@ ATL	W 19–13	3	0.5	0
9	2021-11-07	vs NE	L 6–24	6	1.5	0
10	2021-11-14	@ ARI	W 34–10	0	0.0	0
11	2021-11-21	vs WAS	L 21–27	2	1.0	0
12	2021-11-28	@ MIA	L 10–33	5	1.0	0
14	2021-12-12	vs ATL	L 21–29	2	0.0	0
15	2021-12-19	@ BUF	L 14–31	2	1.0	0
16	2021-12-26	vs TB	L 6–32	3	0.0	0
17	2022-01-02	@ NO	L 10–18	2	0.0	0

2020 game log (15 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2020-09-13	vs LV	L 30–34	4	0.0	0
2	2020-09-20	@ TB	L 17–31	4	0.0	0
3	2020-09-27	@ LAC	W 21–16	3	1.0	1
4	2020-10-04	vs ARI	W 31–21	2	0.0	0
5	2020-10-11	@ ATL	W 23–16	4	1.0	0
6	2020-10-18	vs CHI	L 16–23	3	0.0	0
7	2020-10-25	@ NO	L 24–27	6	1.0	1
8	2020-10-29	vs ATL	L 17–25	5	0.0	0
9	2020-11-08	@ KC	L 31–33	2	1.0	0
10	2020-11-15	vs TB	L 23–46	3	0.0	0
11	2020-11-22	vs DET	W 20–0	5	2.0	1
12	2020-11-29	@ MIN	L 27–28	5	0.0	0
14	2020-12-13	vs DEN	L 27–32	6	0.0	0
15	2020-12-19	@ GB	L 16–24	4	2.0	0
16	2020-12-27	@ WAS	W 20–13	2	1.0	1

2019 game log (12 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2019-09-08	vs LA	L 27–30	2	0.0
2	2019-09-12	vs TB	L 14–20	3	1.0
3	2019-09-22	@ ARI	W 38–20	4	1.0
4	2019-09-29	@ HOU	W 16–10	2	0.5
5	2019-10-06	vs JAX	W 34–27	3	1.0
6	2019-10-13	@ TB	W 37–26	1	1.0
10	2019-11-10	@ GB	L 16–24	1	0.0
12	2019-11-24	@ NO	L 31–34	2	1.0
13	2019-12-01	vs WAS	L 21–29	1	0.0
14	2019-12-08	@ ATL	L 20–40	2	0.0
16	2019-12-22	@ IND	L 6–38	2	1.0
17	2019-12-29	vs NO	L 10–42	2	1.0