E.J. Speed

LB · IND/HOU · 2019–2025

Born June 1, 1995 · College Tarleton State · Drafted 2019, round 5, pick 164 (IND) · 6-4, 227 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
2019	IND	2	7	0.0	0	1	0	0	0
2020	IND	7	9	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2020 playoffs	IND	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	IND	13	31	0.0	0	0	0	1	1
2022	IND	17	63	1.0	1	7	0	2	2
2023	IND	16	102	1.0	2	12	0	4	3
2024	IND	15	142	0.0	1	7	1	5	0
2025	HOU	13	62	0.0	2	2	0	1	0
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	3	0.0	0	1	0	0	0
Career	HOU	83	416	2.0	6	29	1	13	6

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	IND	3	–	–	33	17.7
2020	IND	1	–	–	1	1.4
2021	IND	14	–	–	145	16.1
2022	IND	17	–	–	303	27.2
2023	IND	16	–	–	720	65.6
2024	IND	15	–	–	992	98.4
2025	HOU	16	–	–	425	44.2
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	15	12.5

Game logs

2025 game log (15 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
2	2025-09-15	vs TB	L 19–20	1	0
3	2025-09-21	@ JAX	L 10–17	5	0
4	2025-09-28	vs TEN	W 26–0	4	0
5	2025-10-05	@ BAL	W 44–10	6	0
7	2025-10-20	@ SEA	L 19–27	7	0
8	2025-10-26	vs SF	W 26–15	2	0
10	2025-11-09	vs JAX	W 36–29	6	0
11	2025-11-16	@ TEN	W 16–13	5	1
12	2025-11-20	vs BUF	W 23–19	7	0
13	2025-11-30	@ IND	W 20–16	4	0
16	2025-12-21	vs LV	W 23–21	7	0
17	2025-12-27	@ LAC	W 20–16	2	0
18	2026-01-04	vs IND	W 38–30	6	0
P19	2026-01-12	@ PIT	W 30–6	1	0
P20	2026-01-18	@ NE	L 16–28	2	0

2024 game log (15 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2024-09-08	vs HOU	L 27–29	10	0	0
2	2024-09-15	@ GB	L 10–16	12	0	0
3	2024-09-22	vs CHI	W 21–16	12	0	0
4	2024-09-29	vs PIT	W 27–24	13	0	0
5	2024-10-06	@ JAX	L 34–37	7	0	0
6	2024-10-13	@ TEN	W 20–17	6	0	0
8	2024-10-27	@ HOU	L 20–23	10	0	1
9	2024-11-03	@ MIN	L 13–21	12	0	0
10	2024-11-10	vs BUF	L 20–30	6	1	2
11	2024-11-17	@ NYJ	W 28–27	9	0	0
12	2024-11-24	vs DET	L 6–24	11	0	0
13	2024-12-01	@ NE	W 25–24	9	0	1
15	2024-12-15	@ DEN	L 13–31	12	0	0
17	2024-12-29	@ NYG	L 33–45	5	0	0
18	2025-01-05	vs JAX	W 26–23 OT	8	0	1

2023 game log (16 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs JAX	L 21–31	5	0.0	0
2	2023-09-17	@ HOU	W 31–20	6	1.0	0
3	2023-09-24	@ BAL	W 22–19 OT	4	0.0	0
4	2023-10-01	vs LA	L 23–29 OT	4	0.0	1
5	2023-10-08	vs TEN	W 23–16	7	0.0	1
6	2023-10-15	@ JAX	L 20–37	2	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	vs CLE	L 38–39	5	0.0	0
8	2023-10-29	vs NO	L 27–38	2	0.0	0
9	2023-11-05	@ CAR	W 27–13	3	0.0	0
10	2023-11-12	@ NE	W 10–6	3	0.0	0
12	2023-11-26	vs TB	W 27–20	6	0.0	0
13	2023-12-03	@ TEN	W 31–28 OT	8	0.0	0
15	2023-12-16	vs PIT	W 30–13	10	0.0	0
16	2023-12-24	@ ATL	L 10–29	12	0.0	2
17	2023-12-31	vs LV	W 23–20	12	0.0	0
18	2024-01-06	vs HOU	L 19–23	13	0.0	0

2022 game log (17 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2022-09-11	@ HOU	T 20–20 OT	7	1.0	0
2	2022-09-18	@ JAX	L 0–24	5	0.0	0
3	2022-09-25	vs KC	W 20–17	2	0.0	1
4	2022-10-02	vs TEN	L 17–24	3	0.0	0
5	2022-10-06	@ DEN	W 12–9 OT	1	0.0	0
6	2022-10-16	vs JAX	W 34–27	6	0.0	0
7	2022-10-23	@ TEN	L 10–19	4	0.0	0
8	2022-10-30	vs WAS	L 16–17	3	0.0	0
9	2022-11-06	@ NE	L 3–26	1	0.0	0
10	2022-11-13	@ LV	W 25–20	3	0.0	0
11	2022-11-20	vs PHI	L 16–17	1	0.0	0
12	2022-11-28	vs PIT	L 17–24	7	0.0	0
13	2022-12-04	@ DAL	L 19–54	3	0.0	0
15	2022-12-17	@ MIN	L 36–39 OT	3	0.0	0
16	2022-12-26	vs LAC	L 3–20	5	0.0	0
17	2023-01-01	@ NYG	L 10–38	1	0.0	0
18	2023-01-08	vs HOU	L 31–32	8	0.0	1

2021 game log (13 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
2	2021-09-19	vs LA	L 24–27	1	0
3	2021-09-26	@ TEN	L 16–25	1	0
5	2021-10-11	@ BAL	L 25–31 OT	3	0
6	2021-10-17	vs HOU	W 31–3	2	0
7	2021-10-24	@ SF	W 30–18	3	0
8	2021-10-31	vs TEN	L 31–34 OT	3	0
9	2021-11-04	vs NYJ	W 45–30	1	0
10	2021-11-14	vs JAX	W 23–17	1	0
11	2021-11-21	@ BUF	W 41–15	2	0
13	2021-12-05	@ HOU	W 31–0	2	0
15	2021-12-18	vs NE	W 27–17	2	0
16	2021-12-25	@ ARI	W 22–16	9	1
17	2022-01-02	vs LV	L 20–23	1	0

2020 game log (8 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
3	2020-09-27	vs NYJ	W 36–7	1
4	2020-10-04	@ CHI	W 19–11	1
5	2020-10-11	@ CLE	L 23–32	2
11	2020-11-22	vs GB	W 34–31 OT	1
15	2020-12-20	vs HOU	W 27–20	1
16	2020-12-27	@ PIT	L 24–28	2
17	2021-01-03	vs JAX	W 28–14	1
P18	2021-01-09	@ BUF	L 24–27	1

2019 game log (2 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
4	2019-09-29	vs LV	L 24–31	6	0.0	0	0
8	2019-10-27	vs DEN	W 15–13	1	0.0	0	0