DJ Reader

DT · HOU/CIN/DET/NYG · 2016–2026

Born July 1, 1994 · College Clemson · Drafted 2016, round 5, pick 166 (HOU) · 6-3, 335 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
2016	HOU	15	22	1.0	2	2	1	0
2016 playoffs	HOU	2	3	1.0	1	1	0	0
2017	HOU	14	47	1.0	6	3	0	0
2018	HOU	14	33	2.0	3	5	0	0
2018 playoffs	HOU	1	6	0.0	0	0	0	0
2019	HOU	15	52	2.5	13	6	0	0
2019 playoffs	HOU	2	7	0.0	0	0	0	0
2020	CIN	5	19	0.0	1	1	2	0
2021	CIN	15	43	2.0	7	3	0	0
2021 playoffs	CIN	4	12	1.0	4	3	0	0
2022	CIN	9	27	0.0	5	1	4	1
2022 playoffs	CIN	3	8	0.0	1	0	1	0
2023	CIN	13	34	1.0	7	2	1	0
2024	DET	13	23	3.0	8	4	1	0
2024 playoffs	DET	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
2025	DET	13	28	0.0	4	0	0	0
2026	NYG	8	24	1.0	4	3	0	0
Career	NYG	134	352	13.5	60	30	9	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
2016	HOU	16	–	–	396	39.7
2016 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	70	50.4
2017	HOU	14	–	–	518	58.7
2018	HOU	16	–	–	627	59.4
2018 playoffs	HOU	1	–	–	40	59.7
2019	HOU	15	–	–	615	61.4
2019 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	96	68.6
2020	CIN	5	–	–	255	73.3
2021	CIN	15	–	–	579	58.7
2021 playoffs	CIN	4	–	–	183	69.1
2022	CIN	10	–	–	392	59.6
2022 playoffs	CIN	3	–	–	131	65.2
2023	CIN	14	–	–	529	57.5
2024	DET	15	–	–	501	52.5
2024 playoffs	DET	1	–	–	58	80.6
2025	DET	17	–	–	571	53.0

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2026-09-13	vs DAL	W 28–20	2	0.0
2	2026-09-21	@ LA	L 6–28	3	0.0
3	2026-09-27	vs TEN	W 12–7	1	0.0
4	2026-10-04	vs ARI	W 36–24	2	0.0
5	2026-10-11	@ WAS	T 27–27 OT	5	0.0
6	2026-10-18	vs NO	L 27–34	7	0.0
7	2026-10-25	@ HOU	W 27–21 OT	2	0.0
9	2026-11-08	@ PHI	W 19–11	2	1.0

2025 game log (13 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
3	2025-09-22	@ BAL	W 38–30	1
4	2025-09-28	vs CLE	W 34–10	3
6	2025-10-12	@ KC	L 17–30	5
7	2025-10-20	vs TB	W 24–9	0
9	2025-11-02	vs MIN	L 24–27	1
10	2025-11-09	@ WAS	W 44–22	2
11	2025-11-16	@ PHI	L 9–16	3
12	2025-11-23	vs NYG	W 34–27 OT	4
13	2025-11-27	vs GB	L 24–31	1
14	2025-12-04	vs DAL	W 44–30	2
15	2025-12-14	@ LA	L 34–41	2
16	2025-12-21	vs PIT	L 24–29	3
17	2025-12-25	@ MIN	L 10–23	1

2024 game log (14 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2024-09-15	vs TB	L 16–20	1	0.0	0
3	2024-09-22	@ ARI	W 20–13	1	0.0	0
4	2024-09-30	vs SEA	W 42–29	1	1.0	0
6	2024-10-13	@ DAL	W 47–9	2	0.0	0
7	2024-10-20	@ MIN	W 31–29	2	0.0	0
8	2024-10-27	vs TEN	W 52–14	2	0.0	0
10	2024-11-10	@ HOU	W 26–23	2	0.0	0
11	2024-11-17	vs JAX	W 52–6	2	0.0	0
12	2024-11-24	@ IND	W 24–6	1	0.0	0
13	2024-11-28	vs CHI	W 23–20	4	2.0	0
16	2024-12-22	@ CHI	W 34–17	0	0.0	1
17	2024-12-30	@ SF	W 40–34	2	0.0	0
18	2025-01-05	vs MIN	W 31–9	3	0.0	0
P20	2025-01-18	vs WAS	L 31–45	1	0.0	0

2023 game log (13 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	@ CLE	L 3–24	3	0.0	1
2	2023-09-17	vs BAL	L 24–27	2	0.0	0
3	2023-09-25	vs LA	W 19–16	2	1.0	0
4	2023-10-01	@ TEN	L 3–27	2	0.0	0
5	2023-10-08	@ ARI	W 34–20	3	0.0	0
6	2023-10-15	vs SEA	W 17–13	3	0.0	0
8	2023-10-29	@ SF	W 31–17	2	0.0	0
9	2023-11-05	vs BUF	W 24–18	3	0.0	0
10	2023-11-12	vs HOU	L 27–30	2	0.0	0
11	2023-11-16	@ BAL	L 20–34	1	0.0	0
12	2023-11-26	vs PIT	L 10–16	3	0.0	0
13	2023-12-04	@ JAX	W 34–31 OT	6	0.0	0
14	2023-12-10	vs IND	W 34–14	2	0.0	0

2022 game log (12 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2022-09-11	vs PIT	L 20–23 OT	3	0
2	2022-09-18	@ DAL	L 17–20	5	0
3	2022-09-25	@ NYJ	W 27–12	2	0
12	2022-11-27	@ TEN	W 20–16	1	2
13	2022-12-04	vs KC	W 27–24	3	1
14	2022-12-11	vs CLE	W 23–10	5	1
15	2022-12-18	@ TB	W 34–23	3	0
16	2022-12-24	@ NE	W 22–18	1	0
18	2023-01-08	vs BAL	W 27–16	4	0
P19	2023-01-15	vs BAL	W 24–17	2	1
P20	2023-01-22	@ BUF	W 27–10	2	0
P21	2023-01-29	@ KC	L 20–23	4	0

2021 game log (19 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2021-09-12	vs MIN	W 27–24 OT	3	0.0
2	2021-09-19	@ CHI	L 17–20	3	1.0
3	2021-09-26	@ PIT	W 24–10	2	0.0
4	2021-09-30	vs JAX	W 24–21	6	0.0
5	2021-10-10	vs GB	L 22–25 OT	5	0.0
6	2021-10-17	@ DET	W 34–11	3	0.0
7	2021-10-24	@ BAL	W 41–17	2	0.0
8	2021-10-31	@ NYJ	L 31–34	3	0.0
9	2021-11-07	vs CLE	L 16–41	1	0.0
11	2021-11-21	@ LV	W 32–13	3	0.0
12	2021-11-28	vs PIT	W 41–10	3	0.0
13	2021-12-05	vs LAC	L 22–41	0	0.0
14	2021-12-12	vs SF	L 23–26 OT	3	1.0
15	2021-12-19	@ DEN	W 15–10	5	0.0
17	2022-01-02	vs KC	W 34–31	1	0.0
P19	2022-01-15	vs LV	W 26–19	2	0.0
P20	2022-01-22	@ TEN	W 19–16	6	0.0
P21	2022-01-30	@ KC	W 27–24 OT	3	0.0
P22	2022-02-13	vs LA	L 20–23	1	1.0

2020 game log (5 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2020-09-13	vs LAC	L 13–16	5	0
2	2020-09-17	@ CLE	L 30–35	6	0
3	2020-09-27	@ PHI	T 23–23 OT	2	1
4	2020-10-04	vs JAX	W 33–25	5	0
5	2020-10-11	@ BAL	L 3–27	1	1

2019 game log (17 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2019-09-09	@ NO	L 28–30	1	0.0
2	2019-09-15	vs JAX	W 13–12	5	0.0
3	2019-09-22	@ LAC	W 27–20	3	1.5
4	2019-09-29	vs CAR	L 10–16	6	0.0
5	2019-10-06	vs ATL	W 53–32	4	1.0
6	2019-10-13	@ KC	W 31–24	3	0.0
7	2019-10-20	@ IND	L 23–30	2	0.0
8	2019-10-27	vs LV	W 27–24	1	0.0
9	2019-11-03	@ JAX	W 26–3	2	0.0
11	2019-11-17	@ BAL	L 7–41	5	0.0
12	2019-11-21	vs IND	W 20–17	3	0.0
13	2019-12-01	vs NE	W 28–22	7	0.0
14	2019-12-08	vs DEN	L 24–38	4	0.0
15	2019-12-15	@ TEN	W 24–21	3	0.0
16	2019-12-21	@ TB	W 23–20	3	0.0
P18	2020-01-04	vs BUF	W 22–19 OT	6	0.0
P19	2020-01-12	@ KC	L 31–51	1	0.0

2018 game log (15 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2018-09-09	@ NE	L 20–27	4	2.0
2	2018-09-16	@ TEN	L 17–20	4	0.0
3	2018-09-23	vs NYG	L 22–27	2	0.0
4	2018-09-30	@ IND	W 37–34 OT	2	0.0
5	2018-10-07	vs DAL	W 19–16 OT	3	0.0
6	2018-10-14	vs BUF	W 20–13	3	0.0
8	2018-10-25	vs MIA	W 42–23	1	0.0
9	2018-11-04	@ DEN	W 19–17	1	0.0
11	2018-11-18	@ WAS	W 23–21	2	0.0
12	2018-11-26	vs TEN	W 34–17	1	0.0
13	2018-12-02	vs CLE	W 29–13	1	0.0
14	2018-12-09	vs IND	L 21–24	1	0.0
15	2018-12-15	@ NYJ	W 29–22	6	0.0
16	2018-12-23	@ PHI	L 30–32	2	0.0
P18	2019-01-05	vs IND	L 7–21	6	0.0

2017 game log (14 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2017-09-10	vs JAX	L 7–29	5	0.0
2	2017-09-14	@ CIN	W 13–9	5	0.0
3	2017-09-24	@ NE	L 33–36	3	0.0
4	2017-10-01	vs TEN	W 57–14	1	0.0
5	2017-10-08	vs KC	L 34–42	4	0.0
6	2017-10-15	vs CLE	W 33–17	5	1.0
8	2017-10-29	@ SEA	L 38–41	6	0.0
9	2017-11-05	vs IND	L 14–20	5	0.0
10	2017-11-12	@ LA	L 7–33	1	0.0
11	2017-11-19	vs ARI	W 31–21	1	0.0
12	2017-11-27	@ BAL	L 16–23	5	0.0
13	2017-12-03	@ TEN	L 13–24	1	0.0
14	2017-12-10	vs SF	L 16–26	3	0.0
15	2017-12-17	@ JAX	L 7–45	2	0.0

2016 game log (17 games)

2016 game log

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