Brian Cushing

ILB · HOU · 2009–2017

Born January 24, 1987 · College USC · Drafted 2009, round 1, pick 15 (HOU) · 6-3, 250 lb

Defensive Rookie of the Year (2009) · 2nd-team All-Pro (2011) · Pro Bowl (2009)

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	INT	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2009	HOU	16	134	5.0	13	13	4	10	2
2010	HOU	12	76	1.5	11	8	0	4	1
2011	HOU	16	114	4.0	13	8	2	5	2
2011 playoffs	HOU	2	19	0.0	0	1	0	1	0
2012	HOU	5	30	0.0	2	0	1	2	1
2013	HOU	7	48	1.5	4	6	1	3	1
2014	HOU	13	72	1.0	9	1	0	2	1
2015	HOU	16	110	0.0	2	4	0	3	1
2015 playoffs	HOU	1	13	0.0	0	0	1	1	0
2016	HOU	13	65	0.0	2	2	0	1	0
2016 playoffs	HOU	2	8	1.0	1	2	0	0	0
2017	HOU	5	16	1.5	2	1	0	0	0
Career	HOU	103	665	14.5	58	43	8	30	9

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
2009	Defensive Rookie of the Year, Pro Bowl
2011	2nd-team All-Pro

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
2016	HOU	13	–	–	608	74.7
2016 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	139	100.0
2017	HOU	5	–	–	158	49.7

Game logs

2017 game log (5 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2017-09-10	vs JAX	L 7–29	3	0.0
14	2017-12-10	vs SF	L 16–26	5	0.5
15	2017-12-17	@ JAX	L 7–45	6	1.0
16	2017-12-25	vs PIT	L 6–34	1	0.0
17	2017-12-31	@ IND	L 13–22	1	0.0

2016 game log (15 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2016-09-11	vs CHI	W 23–14	2	0.0	0
4	2016-10-02	vs TEN	W 27–20	4	0.0	0
5	2016-10-09	@ MIN	L 13–31	5	0.0	0
6	2016-10-16	vs IND	W 26–23 OT	8	0.0	0
7	2016-10-24	@ DEN	L 9–27	6	0.0	0
8	2016-10-30	vs DET	W 20–13	7	0.0	0
10	2016-11-13	@ JAX	W 24–21	3	0.0	0
11	2016-11-21	@ LV	L 20–27	2	0.0	0
12	2016-11-27	vs LAC	L 13–21	7	0.0	0
13	2016-12-04	@ GB	L 13–21	6	0.0	0
14	2016-12-11	@ IND	W 22–17	6	0.0	1
15	2016-12-18	vs JAX	W 21–20	4	0.0	0
16	2016-12-24	vs CIN	W 12–10	5	0.0	0
P18	2017-01-07	vs LV	W 27–14	4	0.0	0
P19	2017-01-14	@ NE	L 16–34	4	1.0	0

2015 game log (17 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2015-09-13	vs KC	L 20–27	10	0	0
2	2015-09-20	@ CAR	L 17–24	7	0	1
3	2015-09-27	vs TB	W 19–9	4	0	0
4	2015-10-04	@ ATL	L 21–48	11	0	0
5	2015-10-08	vs IND	L 20–27	8	0	0
6	2015-10-18	@ JAX	W 31–20	12	0	0
7	2015-10-25	@ MIA	L 26–44	4	0	0
8	2015-11-01	vs TEN	W 20–6	13	0	1
10	2015-11-16	@ CIN	W 10–6	7	0	0
11	2015-11-22	vs NYJ	W 24–17	5	0	0
12	2015-11-29	vs NO	W 24–6	3	0	0
13	2015-12-06	@ BUF	L 21–30	3	0	0
14	2015-12-13	vs NE	L 6–27	9	0	0
15	2015-12-20	@ IND	W 16–10	7	0	0
16	2015-12-27	@ TEN	W 34–6	1	0	0
17	2016-01-03	vs JAX	W 30–6	6	0	1
P18	2016-01-09	vs KC	L 0–30	13	1	1

2014 game log (13 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2014-09-07	vs WAS	W 17–6	5	0.0	0
2	2014-09-14	@ LV	W 30–14	6	0.0	0
3	2014-09-21	@ NYG	L 17–30	17	0.0	0
4	2014-09-28	vs BUF	W 23–17	9	0.0	1
5	2014-10-05	@ DAL	L 17–20 OT	8	1.0	0
6	2014-10-09	vs IND	L 28–33	4	0.0	0
7	2014-10-20	@ PIT	L 23–30	1	0.0	0
11	2014-11-16	@ CLE	W 23–7	6	0.0	1
12	2014-11-23	vs CIN	L 13–22	8	0.0	0
13	2014-11-30	vs TEN	W 45–21	1	0.0	0
14	2014-12-07	@ JAX	W 27–13	4	0.0	0
16	2014-12-21	vs BAL	W 25–13	2	0.0	0
17	2014-12-28	vs JAX	W 23–17	1	0.0	0

2013 game log (7 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2013-09-09	@ LAC	W 31–28	5	0.0	1	2
2	2013-09-15	vs TEN	W 30–24 OT	11	1.5	0	0
3	2013-09-22	@ BAL	L 9–30	8	0.0	0	0
4	2013-09-29	vs SEA	L 20–23 OT	9	0.0	0	0
5	2013-10-06	@ SF	L 3–34	6	0.0	0	0
6	2013-10-13	vs LA	L 13–38	5	0.0	0	0
7	2013-10-20	@ KC	L 16–17	4	0.0	0	1

2012 game log (5 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2012-09-09	vs MIA	W 30–10	7	1	1
2	2012-09-16	@ JAX	W 27–7	2	0	0
3	2012-09-23	@ DEN	W 31–25	6	0	1
4	2012-09-30	vs TEN	W 38–14	10	0	0
5	2012-10-08	@ NYJ	W 23–17	5	0	0

2011 game log (18 games)

2011 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2011-09-11	vs IND	W 34–7	7	0.0	0	0
2	2011-09-18	@ MIA	W 23–13	10	0.0	0	0
3	2011-09-25	@ NO	L 33–40	5	0.0	0	0
4	2011-10-02	vs PIT	W 17–10	6	0.0	0	0
5	2011-10-09	vs LV	L 20–25	8	1.0	0	1
6	2011-10-16	@ BAL	L 14–29	5	0.0	0	0
7	2011-10-23	@ TEN	W 41–7	6	0.0	0	1
8	2011-10-30	vs JAX	W 24–14	7	0.0	1	1
9	2011-11-06	vs CLE	W 30–12	7	1.0	0	0
10	2011-11-13	@ TB	W 37–9	8	1.0	1	1
12	2011-11-27	@ JAX	W 20–13	7	0.0	0	1
13	2011-12-04	vs ATL	W 17–10	6	0.0	0	0
14	2011-12-11	@ CIN	W 20–19	4	0.0	0	0
15	2011-12-18	vs CAR	L 13–28	12	0.0	0	0
16	2011-12-22	@ IND	L 16–19	12	1.0	0	0
17	2012-01-01	vs TEN	L 22–23	4	0.0	0	0
P18	2012-01-07	vs CIN	W 31–10	8	0.0	0	0
P19	2012-01-15	@ BAL	L 13–20	11	0.0	0	1

2010 game log (12 games)

2010 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
5	2010-10-10	vs NYG	L 10–34	9	0.0	1
6	2010-10-17	vs KC	W 35–31	8	0.0	0
8	2010-11-01	@ IND	L 17–30	5	0.0	1
9	2010-11-07	vs LAC	L 23–29	5	0.0	0
10	2010-11-14	@ JAX	L 24–31	9	0.0	0
11	2010-11-21	@ NYJ	L 27–30	4	0.0	0
12	2010-11-28	vs TEN	W 20–0	7	0.0	2
13	2010-12-02	@ PHI	L 24–34	6	0.0	0
14	2010-12-13	vs BAL	L 28–34 OT	10	1.5	0
15	2010-12-19	@ TEN	L 17–31	3	0.0	0
16	2010-12-26	@ DEN	L 23–24	5	0.0	0
17	2011-01-02	vs JAX	W 34–17	5	0.0	0

2009 game log (16 games)

2009 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2009-09-13	vs NYJ	L 7–24	8	0.0	0	0
2	2009-09-20	@ TEN	W 34–31	10	0.0	0	1
3	2009-09-27	vs JAX	L 24–31	8	0.0	0	2
4	2009-10-04	vs LV	W 29–6	7	0.0	0	0
5	2009-10-11	@ ARI	L 21–28	6	0.5	0	0
6	2009-10-18	@ CIN	W 28–17	9	0.0	1	2
7	2009-10-25	vs SF	W 24–21	8	0.0	0	1
8	2009-11-01	@ BUF	W 31–10	10	1.0	1	1
9	2009-11-08	@ IND	L 17–20	12	0.0	0	1
11	2009-11-23	vs TEN	L 17–20	10	0.0	0	0
12	2009-11-29	vs IND	L 27–35	11	0.0	1	1
13	2009-12-06	@ JAX	L 18–23	3	0.0	0	0
14	2009-12-13	vs SEA	W 34–7	10	1.0	0	0
15	2009-12-20	@ LA	W 16–13	7	0.5	0	0
16	2009-12-27	@ MIA	W 27–20	9	1.0	1	1
17	2010-01-03	vs NE	W 34–27	6	1.0	0	0