Derwin James

FS · LAC · 2018–2026

Born August 3, 1996 · College Florida State · Drafted 2018, round 1, pick 17 (LAC) · 6-2, 215 lb

1st-team All-Pro (2018) · 2nd-team All-Pro ×4 (2018, 2022, 2024, 2025) · Pro Bowl ×5 (2018, 2021, 2022, 2024, 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	INT	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2018	LAC	16	104	3.5	6	4	3	13	0
2018 playoffs	LAC	2	14	0.0	1	3	0	0	0
2019	LAC	5	34	0.0	0	3	0	1	0
2021	LAC	15	118	2.0	7	7	2	5	3
2022	LAC	14	115	4.0	5	5	2	6	2
2022 playoffs	LAC	1	9	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2023	LAC	16	125	2.0	4	5	1	7	0
2024	LAC	16	93	5.5	6	10	1	7	0
2024 playoffs	LAC	1	7	0.0	0	1	0	1	0
2025	LAC	15	94	2.0	8	6	3	7	1
2025 playoffs	LAC	1	4	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2026	LAC	3	21	0.0	0	0	0	1	0
Career	LAC	100	704	19.0	36	40	12	47	6

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
2018	1st-team All-Pro, 2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2021	Pro Bowl
2022	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2024	2nd-team All-Pro, 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
2018	LAC	16	–	–	1,007	98.8
2018 playoffs	LAC	2	–	–	138	100.0
2019	LAC	5	–	–	294	99.0
2021	LAC	15	–	–	949	94.1
2022	LAC	14	–	–	826	94.6
2022 playoffs	LAC	1	–	–	72	100.0
2023	LAC	16	–	–	985	93.0
2024	LAC	16	–	–	974	95.4
2024 playoffs	LAC	1	–	–	71	100.0
2025	LAC	16	–	–	880	93.2
2025 playoffs	LAC	1	–	–	61	100.0

Game logs

2026 game log (3 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2026-09-13	vs ARI	L 14–26	10	1
2	2026-09-20	vs LV	L 14–26	7	0
3	2026-09-27	@ BUF	L 16–24	4	0

2025 game log (16 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2025-09-05	vs KC	W 27–21	7	0.0	0	0
2	2025-09-15	@ LV	W 20–9	7	0.0	0	2
3	2025-09-21	vs DEN	W 23–20	12	1.0	0	0
4	2025-09-28	@ NYG	L 18–21	8	0.5	0	0
5	2025-10-05	vs WAS	L 10–27	3	0.0	0	0
6	2025-10-12	@ MIA	W 29–27	5	0.0	1	1
7	2025-10-19	vs IND	L 24–38	7	0.0	0	0
9	2025-11-02	@ TEN	W 27–20	8	0.0	0	0
10	2025-11-09	vs PIT	W 25–10	3	0.0	0	0
11	2025-11-16	@ JAX	L 6–35	5	0.0	0	1
13	2025-11-30	vs LV	W 31–14	2	0.5	0	0
14	2025-12-08	vs PHI	W 22–19 OT	3	0.0	0	0
15	2025-12-14	@ KC	W 16–13	10	0.0	1	2
16	2025-12-21	@ DAL	W 34–17	6	0.0	0	0
17	2025-12-27	vs HOU	L 16–20	8	0.0	1	1
P19	2026-01-11	@ NE	L 3–16	4	0.0	0	0

2024 game log (17 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2024-09-08	vs LV	W 22–10	7	0.0	0	0
2	2024-09-15	@ CAR	W 26–3	6	0.0	0	0
3	2024-09-22	@ PIT	L 10–20	8	1.0	0	0
6	2024-10-13	@ DEN	W 23–16	3	0.0	0	2
7	2024-10-21	@ ARI	L 15–17	8	0.0	0	0
8	2024-10-27	vs NO	W 26–8	6	0.0	0	0
9	2024-11-03	@ CLE	W 27–10	7	0.0	0	2
10	2024-11-10	vs TEN	W 27–17	4	0.0	0	0
11	2024-11-17	vs CIN	W 34–27	10	0.5	0	1
12	2024-11-25	vs BAL	L 23–30	6	1.0	0	0
13	2024-12-01	@ ATL	W 17–13	10	0.0	1	1
14	2024-12-08	@ KC	L 17–19	2	1.0	0	0
15	2024-12-15	vs TB	L 17–40	6	0.0	0	0
16	2024-12-19	vs DEN	W 34–27	5	0.0	0	0
17	2024-12-28	@ NE	W 40–7	2	2.0	0	0
18	2025-01-05	@ LV	W 34–20	3	0.0	0	1
P19	2025-01-11	@ HOU	L 12–32	7	0.0	0	1

2023 game log (16 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs MIA	L 34–36	6	0.0	0	2
2	2023-09-17	@ TEN	L 24–27 OT	11	0.0	0	0
3	2023-09-24	@ MIN	W 28–24	7	0.0	0	0
6	2023-10-16	vs DAL	L 17–20	3	0.0	0	0
7	2023-10-22	@ KC	L 17–31	5	0.0	0	0
8	2023-10-29	vs CHI	W 30–13	5	0.0	1	1
9	2023-11-06	@ NYJ	W 27–6	10	0.0	0	0
10	2023-11-12	vs DET	L 38–41	13	0.0	0	0
11	2023-11-19	@ GB	L 20–23	7	0.0	0	0
12	2023-11-26	vs BAL	L 10–20	6	0.0	0	0
13	2023-12-03	@ NE	W 6–0	9	1.0	0	0
14	2023-12-10	vs DEN	L 7–24	11	0.0	0	1
15	2023-12-14	@ LV	L 21–63	5	0.0	0	1
16	2023-12-23	vs BUF	L 22–24	7	0.0	0	0
17	2023-12-31	@ DEN	L 9–16	12	1.0	0	2
18	2024-01-07	vs KC	L 12–13	8	0.0	0	0

2022 game log (15 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2022-09-11	vs LV	W 24–19	6	1.0	0	0
2	2022-09-15	@ KC	L 24–27	9	0.0	0	0
3	2022-09-25	vs JAX	L 10–38	9	0.0	0	1
4	2022-10-02	@ HOU	W 34–24	7	0.0	0	2
5	2022-10-09	@ CLE	W 30–28	14	0.0	0	0
6	2022-10-17	vs DEN	W 19–16 OT	10	1.0	0	0
7	2022-10-23	vs SEA	L 23–37	8	0.0	0	0
9	2022-11-06	@ ATL	W 20–17	9	1.0	0	0
10	2022-11-13	@ SF	L 16–22	13	0.0	0	0
11	2022-11-20	vs KC	L 27–30	7	1.0	0	0
12	2022-11-27	@ ARI	W 25–24	8	0.0	1	1
13	2022-12-04	@ LV	L 20–27	6	0.0	0	0
16	2022-12-26	@ IND	W 20–3	3	0.0	1	1
18	2023-01-08	@ DEN	L 28–31	6	0.0	0	1
P19	2023-01-14	@ JAX	L 30–31	9	0.0	0	0

2021 game log (15 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2021-09-12	@ WAS	W 20–16	8	0.0	0	1
2	2021-09-19	vs DAL	L 17–20	7	0.5	0	0
3	2021-09-26	@ KC	W 30–24	5	0.0	0	0
4	2021-10-04	vs LV	W 28–14	6	0.0	1	1
5	2021-10-10	vs CLE	W 47–42	16	1.0	0	0
6	2021-10-17	@ BAL	L 6–34	8	0.0	0	0
8	2021-10-31	vs NE	L 24–27	13	0.0	0	0
9	2021-11-07	@ PHI	W 27–24	5	0.0	0	0
10	2021-11-14	vs MIN	L 20–27	12	0.0	0	1
11	2021-11-21	vs PIT	W 41–37	6	0.0	0	1
12	2021-11-28	@ DEN	L 13–28	7	0.0	1	1
13	2021-12-05	@ CIN	W 41–22	7	0.5	0	0
15	2021-12-16	vs KC	L 28–34 OT	3	0.0	0	0
17	2022-01-02	vs DEN	W 34–13	6	0.0	0	0
18	2022-01-09	@ LV	L 32–35 OT	9	0.0	0	0

2019 game log (5 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
13	2019-12-01	@ DEN	L 20–23	4	0
14	2019-12-08	@ JAX	W 45–10	6	1
15	2019-12-15	vs MIN	L 10–39	8	0
16	2019-12-22	vs LV	L 17–24	8	0
17	2019-12-29	@ KC	L 21–31	8	0

2018 game log (18 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2018-09-09	vs KC	L 28–38	3	1.0	0	2
2	2018-09-16	@ BUF	W 31–20	6	1.0	0	1
3	2018-09-23	@ LA	L 23–35	9	0.0	1	1
4	2018-09-30	vs SF	W 29–27	7	1.0	0	2
5	2018-10-07	vs LV	W 26–10	5	0.0	0	0
6	2018-10-14	@ CLE	W 38–14	5	0.5	0	0
7	2018-10-21	vs TEN	W 20–19	8	0.0	0	0
9	2018-11-04	@ SEA	W 25–17	11	0.0	0	0
10	2018-11-11	@ LV	W 20–6	9	0.0	0	1
11	2018-11-18	vs DEN	L 22–23	7	0.0	0	0
12	2018-11-25	vs ARI	W 45–10	7	0.0	1	2
13	2018-12-02	@ PIT	W 33–30	3	0.0	1	3
14	2018-12-09	vs CIN	W 26–21	7	0.0	0	0
15	2018-12-13	@ KC	W 29–28	5	0.0	0	0
16	2018-12-22	vs BAL	L 10–22	6	0.0	0	1
17	2018-12-30	@ DEN	W 23–9	6	0.0	0	0
P18	2019-01-06	@ BAL	W 23–17	5	0.0	0	0
P19	2019-01-13	@ NE	L 28–41	9	0.0	0	0