David Onyemata

DT · NO/ATL/NYJ · 2016–2026

Born November 13, 1992 · College Manitoba (Canada) · Drafted 2016, round 4, pick 120 (NO) · 6-3, 300 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	INT	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2016	NO	11	18	0.0	4	0	0	0	0
2017	NO	15	38	2.0	5	4	0	1	0
2017 playoffs	NO	2	3	0.0	4	0	0	0	0
2018	NO	14	35	4.5	6	4	0	1	1
2018 playoffs	NO	2	4	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	NO	15	32	3.0	11	3	0	1	0
2019 playoffs	NO	1	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	NO	15	44	6.5	16	10	1	2	0
2020 playoffs	NO	2	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	NO	8	34	2.0	10	2	0	0	0
2022	NO	15	43	5.0	11	5	0	1	0
2023	ATL	14	50	4.0	16	6	0	3	2
2024	ATL	17	45	3.0	5	8	0	1	0
2025	ATL	16	62	1.0	2	7	0	0	0
Career	NYJ	141	401	31.0	87	49	1	10	3

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	NO	16	–	–	388	37.8
2017	NO	16	–	–	587	56.0
2017 playoffs	NO	2	–	–	97	63.8
2018	NO	16	–	–	603	59.6
2018 playoffs	NO	2	–	–	88	75.2
2019	NO	15	–	–	561	56.9
2019 playoffs	NO	1	–	–	56	72.7
2020	NO	15	–	–	591	60.9
2020 playoffs	NO	2	–	–	64	55.2
2021	NO	11	–	–	422	60.4
2022	NO	17	–	–	667	59.9
2023	ATL	14	–	–	581	62.8
2024	ATL	17	–	–	558	51.0
2025	ATL	17	–	–	623	57.3

Game logs

2026 game log (1 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
1	2026-09-13	@ TEN	W 23–10

2025 game log (16 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
2	2025-09-14	@ MIN	W 22–6	5	0.0
3	2025-09-21	@ CAR	L 0–30	4	0.0
4	2025-09-28	vs WAS	W 34–27	4	0.0
6	2025-10-13	vs BUF	W 24–14	4	1.0
7	2025-10-19	@ SF	L 10–20	1	0.0
8	2025-10-26	vs MIA	L 10–34	5	0.0
9	2025-11-02	@ NE	L 23–24	2	0.0
10	2025-11-09	@ IND	L 25–31 OT	7	0.0
11	2025-11-16	vs CAR	L 27–30 OT	4	0.0
12	2025-11-23	@ NO	W 24–10	3	0.0
13	2025-11-30	@ NYJ	L 24–27	4	0.0
14	2025-12-07	vs SEA	L 9–37	2	0.0
15	2025-12-11	@ TB	W 29–28	4	0.0
16	2025-12-21	@ ARI	W 26–19	5	0.0
17	2025-12-29	vs LA	W 27–24	2	0.0
18	2026-01-04	vs NO	W 19–17	6	0.0

2024 game log (17 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2024-09-08	vs PIT	L 10–18	2	0.0	0
2	2024-09-16	@ PHI	W 22–21	3	0.0	0
3	2024-09-22	vs KC	L 17–22	5	0.0	0
4	2024-09-29	vs NO	W 26–24	2	0.0	0
5	2024-10-03	vs TB	W 36–30 OT	2	1.0	0
6	2024-10-13	@ CAR	W 38–20	2	0.0	0
7	2024-10-20	vs SEA	L 14–34	4	0.0	0
8	2024-10-27	@ TB	W 31–26	1	0.0	1
9	2024-11-03	vs DAL	W 27–21	2	0.0	0
10	2024-11-10	@ NO	L 17–20	4	0.0	0
11	2024-11-17	@ DEN	L 6–38	3	0.0	0
13	2024-12-01	vs LAC	L 13–17	4	1.0	0
14	2024-12-08	@ MIN	L 21–42	2	0.0	0
15	2024-12-16	@ LV	W 15–9	2	0.0	0
16	2024-12-22	vs NYG	W 34–7	3	0.0	0
17	2024-12-29	@ WAS	L 24–30 OT	2	1.0	0
18	2025-01-05	vs CAR	L 38–44 OT	2	0.0	0

2023 game log (14 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs CAR	W 24–10	4	0.0	1
2	2023-09-17	vs GB	W 25–24	2	0.0	2
3	2023-09-24	@ DET	L 6–20	3	0.0	0
4	2023-10-01	@ JAX	L 7–23	7	1.5	0
5	2023-10-08	vs HOU	W 21–19	2	0.0	0
6	2023-10-15	vs WAS	L 16–24	4	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	@ TB	W 16–13	4	1.0	0
8	2023-10-29	@ TEN	L 23–28	3	0.0	0
9	2023-11-05	vs MIN	L 28–31	10	1.0	0
12	2023-11-26	vs NO	W 24–15	2	0.0	0
13	2023-12-03	@ NYJ	W 13–8	4	0.0	0
16	2023-12-24	vs IND	W 29–10	0	0.0	0
17	2023-12-31	@ CHI	L 17–37	2	0.5	0
18	2024-01-07	@ NO	L 17–48	3	0.0	0

2022 game log (15 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2022-09-11	@ ATL	W 27–26	1	0.0	0
2	2022-09-18	vs TB	L 10–20	3	0.5	0
3	2022-09-25	@ CAR	L 14–22	3	0.0	0
5	2022-10-09	vs SEA	W 39–32	1	0.0	0
7	2022-10-20	@ ARI	L 34–42	2	0.0	0
8	2022-10-30	vs LV	W 24–0	3	1.0	0
9	2022-11-07	vs BAL	L 13–27	1	1.0	0
10	2022-11-13	@ PIT	L 10–20	3	1.0	0
11	2022-11-20	vs LA	W 27–20	5	0.0	0
12	2022-11-27	@ SF	L 0–13	2	0.0	1
13	2022-12-05	@ TB	L 16–17	4	0.0	0
15	2022-12-18	vs ATL	W 21–18	4	0.0	0
16	2022-12-24	@ CLE	W 17–10	4	0.5	0
17	2023-01-01	@ PHI	W 20–10	4	0.0	0
18	2023-01-08	vs CAR	L 7–10	3	1.0	0

2021 game log (8 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
9	2021-11-07	vs ATL	L 25–27	7	0.0
10	2021-11-14	@ TEN	L 21–23	6	0.0
11	2021-11-21	@ PHI	L 29–40	4	0.5
13	2021-12-02	vs DAL	L 17–27	4	0.0
15	2021-12-19	@ TB	W 9–0	6	1.0
16	2021-12-27	vs MIA	L 3–20	1	0.0
17	2022-01-02	vs CAR	W 18–10	2	0.0
18	2022-01-09	@ ATL	W 30–20	4	0.5

2020 game log (17 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2020-09-13	vs TB	W 34–23	1	0.0	0	0
2	2020-09-21	@ LV	L 24–34	5	1.0	0	0
4	2020-10-04	@ DET	W 35–29	1	1.0	0	0
5	2020-10-12	vs LAC	W 30–27 OT	3	0.0	0	0
7	2020-10-25	vs CAR	W 27–24	3	0.0	0	0
8	2020-11-01	@ CHI	W 26–23 OT	5	1.0	0	0
9	2020-11-08	@ TB	W 38–3	0	0.0	1	1
10	2020-11-15	vs SF	W 27–13	4	0.0	0	1
11	2020-11-22	vs ATL	W 24–9	3	2.0	0	0
12	2020-11-29	@ DEN	W 31–3	1	0.0	0	0
13	2020-12-06	@ ATL	W 21–16	5	1.0	0	0
14	2020-12-13	@ PHI	L 21–24	3	0.0	0	0
15	2020-12-20	vs KC	L 29–32	5	0.0	0	0
16	2020-12-25	vs MIN	W 52–33	3	0.5	0	0
17	2021-01-03	@ CAR	W 33–7	2	0.0	0	0
P18	2021-01-10	vs CHI	W 21–9	2	0.0	0	0
P19	2021-01-17	vs TB	L 20–30	3	0.0	0	0

2019 game log (16 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2019-09-15	@ LA	L 9–27	4	0.0	0
3	2019-09-22	@ SEA	W 33–27	4	0.0	0
4	2019-09-29	vs DAL	W 12–10	3	1.0	0
5	2019-10-06	vs TB	W 31–24	4	0.0	0
6	2019-10-13	@ JAX	W 13–6	2	0.0	0
7	2019-10-20	@ CHI	W 36–25	0	0.0	0
8	2019-10-27	vs ARI	W 31–9	2	1.0	0
10	2019-11-10	vs ATL	L 9–26	4	0.0	0
11	2019-11-17	@ TB	W 34–17	0	0.0	0
12	2019-11-24	vs CAR	W 34–31	2	1.0	0
13	2019-11-28	@ ATL	W 26–18	1	0.0	0
14	2019-12-08	vs SF	L 46–48	2	0.0	0
15	2019-12-16	vs IND	W 34–7	0	0.0	0
16	2019-12-22	@ TEN	W 38–28	3	0.0	0
17	2019-12-29	@ CAR	W 42–10	1	0.0	1
P18	2020-01-05	vs MIN	L 20–26 OT	3	0.0	0

2018 game log (16 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2018-09-16	vs CLE	W 21–18	3	0.0	0
3	2018-09-23	@ ATL	W 43–37 OT	2	0.0	0
4	2018-09-30	@ NYG	W 33–18	2	0.0	0
5	2018-10-08	vs WAS	W 43–19	3	0.0	0
7	2018-10-21	@ BAL	W 24–23	4	0.0	0
8	2018-10-28	@ MIN	W 30–20	1	0.0	0
9	2018-11-04	vs LA	W 45–35	3	0.0	0
10	2018-11-11	@ CIN	W 51–14	2	0.0	0
11	2018-11-18	vs PHI	W 48–7	1	0.0	0
13	2018-11-29	@ DAL	L 10–13	7	3.0	0
14	2018-12-09	@ TB	W 28–14	0	0.0	1
15	2018-12-17	@ CAR	W 12–9	2	1.0	0
16	2018-12-23	vs PIT	W 31–28	3	0.0	0
17	2018-12-30	vs CAR	L 14–33	2	0.5	0
P19	2019-01-13	vs PHI	W 20–14	3	0.0	0
P20	2019-01-20	vs LA	L 23–26 OT	1	0.0	0

2017 game log (17 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2017-09-11	@ MIN	L 19–29	4	0.0	0
3	2017-09-24	@ CAR	W 34–13	2	0.0	0
4	2017-10-01	@ MIA	W 20–0	1	1.0	0
6	2017-10-15	vs DET	W 52–38	3	0.0	0
7	2017-10-22	@ GB	W 26–17	2	0.0	0
8	2017-10-29	vs CHI	W 20–12	5	0.0	0
9	2017-11-05	vs TB	W 30–10	4	0.5	0
10	2017-11-12	@ BUF	W 47–10	0	0.0	1
11	2017-11-19	vs WAS	W 34–31 OT	1	0.0	0
12	2017-11-26	@ LA	L 20–26	2	0.0	0
13	2017-12-03	vs CAR	W 31–21	4	0.0	0
14	2017-12-07	@ ATL	L 17–20	2	0.0	0
15	2017-12-17	vs NYJ	W 31–19	2	0.0	0
16	2017-12-24	vs ATL	W 23–13	3	0.5	0
17	2017-12-31	@ TB	L 24–31	3	0.0	0
P18	2018-01-07	vs CAR	W 31–26	1	0.0	0
P19	2018-01-14	@ MIN	L 24–29	2	0.0	0

2016 game log (11 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
1	2016-09-11	vs LV	L 34–35	1
2	2016-09-18	@ NYG	L 13–16	2
4	2016-10-02	@ LAC	W 35–34	1
6	2016-10-16	vs CAR	W 41–38	3
7	2016-10-23	@ KC	L 21–27	1
12	2016-11-27	vs LA	W 49–21	1
13	2016-12-04	vs DET	L 13–28	2
14	2016-12-11	@ TB	L 11–16	2
15	2016-12-18	@ ARI	W 48–41	0
16	2016-12-24	vs TB	W 31–24	1
17	2017-01-01	@ ATL	L 32–38	4