J.J. Watt

DE · HOU/ARI · 2011–2022

Born March 22, 1989 · College Wisconsin; Central Michigan · Drafted 2011, round 1, pick 11 (HOU) · 6-5, 288 lb

Defensive Player of the Year ×3 (2012, 2014, 2015) · Walter Payton Man of the Year (2017) · 1st-team All-Pro ×5 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018) · 2nd-team All-Pro ×2 (2014, 2018) · Pro Bowl ×5 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018)

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2015 playoffs	HOU	1	1	-1	0	-1.00	−0.633		0.0	−0.6	−0.01

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2014	HOU	16	3	3	4	3	100.0	+0.740	0.6	0.7	+2.2	+0.05
2015	HOU	16	1	0	0	0	0.0	−0.836	0.2	2.0	−0.8	−0.02
Career	ARI	150	4	3	4	3	75.0	+0.346	0.1	1.0	+1.4	+0.03

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
2011	HOU	16	56	5.5	19	13	0	4	0
2011 playoffs	HOU	2	14	3.5	4	4	1	1	0
2012	HOU	16	81	20.5	43	39	0	16	4
2012 playoffs	HOU	2	9	1.5	3	3	0	2	0
2013	HOU	16	80	10.5	46	22	0	7	4
2014	HOU	16	77	20.5	51	29	1	10	4
2015	HOU	16	76	17.5	50	29	0	8	3
2015 playoffs	HOU	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2016	HOU	3	8	1.5	5	1	0	0	0
2017	HOU	5	15	0.0	5	3	0	2	0
2018	HOU	16	60	16.0	25	18	0	4	7
2018 playoffs	HOU	1	2	0.0	1	1	0	2	0
2019	HOU	7	24	4.0	21	4	0	3	1
2019 playoffs	HOU	2	2	1.0	2	1	0	1	0
2020	HOU	16	52	5.0	17	14	1	7	2
2021	ARI	7	16	1.0	10	5	0	2	1
2021 playoffs	ARI	1	3	0.0	0	1	0	0	0
2022	ARI	16	39	12.5	25	18	0	7	1
Career	ARI	150	584	114.5	317	195	2	70	27

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
2012	Defensive Player of the Year, 1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2013	1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2014	Defensive Player of the Year, 1st-team All-Pro, 2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2015	Defensive Player of the Year, 1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2017	Walter Payton Man of the Year
2018	1st-team All-Pro, 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
2016	HOU	3	–	–	155	85.6
2017	HOU	5	–	–	215	70.5
2018	HOU	16	–	–	953	90.2
2018 playoffs	HOU	1	–	–	63	94.0
2019	HOU	8	–	–	462	89.0
2019 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	84	60.0
2020	HOU	16	–	–	993	91.7
2021	ARI	7	1	1.4	339	77.0
2021 playoffs	ARI	1	–	–	24	40.0
2022	ARI	16	–	–	812	79.2

Game logs

2022 game log (16 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2022-09-18	@ LV	W 29–23 OT	2	1.0	1
3	2022-09-25	vs LA	L 12–20	1	1.0	0
4	2022-10-02	@ CAR	W 26–16	3	0.0	2
5	2022-10-09	vs PHI	L 17–20	1	0.5	0
6	2022-10-16	@ SEA	L 9–19	2	0.0	0
7	2022-10-20	vs NO	W 42–34	2	0.0	0
8	2022-10-30	@ MIN	L 26–34	2	2.0	0
9	2022-11-06	vs SEA	L 21–31	3	0.0	0
10	2022-11-13	@ LA	W 27–17	2	1.0	0
11	2022-11-21	vs SF	L 10–38	1	0.0	1
12	2022-11-27	vs LAC	L 24–25	2	1.0	1
14	2022-12-12	vs NE	L 13–27	1	0.0	0
15	2022-12-18	@ DEN	L 15–24	5	3.0	1
16	2022-12-25	vs TB	L 16–19 OT	6	0.0	0
17	2023-01-01	@ ATL	L 19–20	1	1.0	0
18	2023-01-08	@ SF	L 13–38	5	2.0	1

2021 game log (8 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2021-09-12	@ TEN	W 38–13	2	0.0	0
2	2021-09-19	vs MIN	W 34–33	2	0.0	0
3	2021-09-26	@ JAX	W 31–19	2	0.0	0
4	2021-10-03	@ LA	W 37–20	1	0.0	0
5	2021-10-10	vs SF	W 17–10	3	0.0	1
6	2021-10-17	@ CLE	W 37–14	5	1.0	1
7	2021-10-24	vs HOU	W 31–5	1	0.0	0
P19	2022-01-17	@ LA	L 11–34	3	0.0	0

2020 game log (16 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2020-09-10	@ KC	L 20–34	4	0.0	0	0
2	2020-09-20	vs BAL	L 16–33	2	2.0	0	1
3	2020-09-27	@ PIT	L 21–28	4	0.0	0	0
4	2020-10-04	vs MIN	L 23–31	3	0.0	0	0
5	2020-10-11	vs JAX	W 30–14	2	0.0	0	1
6	2020-10-18	@ TEN	L 36–42 OT	4	1.0	0	1
7	2020-10-25	vs GB	L 20–35	5	0.0	0	0
9	2020-11-08	@ JAX	W 27–25	2	1.0	0	0
10	2020-11-15	@ CLE	L 7–10	5	0.0	0	0
11	2020-11-22	vs NE	W 27–20	2	0.0	0	3
12	2020-11-26	@ DET	W 41–25	4	0.0	1	1
13	2020-12-06	vs IND	L 20–26	6	1.0	0	0
14	2020-12-13	@ CHI	L 7–36	2	0.0	0	0
15	2020-12-20	@ IND	L 20–27	1	0.0	0	0
16	2020-12-27	vs CIN	L 31–37	3	0.0	0	0
17	2021-01-03	vs TEN	L 38–41	3	0.0	0	0

2019 game log (9 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2019-09-15	vs JAX	W 13–12	2	0.0	0
3	2019-09-22	@ LAC	W 27–20	5	2.0	0
4	2019-09-29	vs CAR	L 10–16	6	1.0	0
5	2019-10-06	vs ATL	W 53–32	3	1.0	1
6	2019-10-13	@ KC	W 31–24	2	0.0	0
7	2019-10-20	@ IND	L 23–30	3	0.0	1
8	2019-10-27	vs LV	W 27–24	3	0.0	1
P18	2020-01-04	vs BUF	W 22–19 OT	2	1.0	0
P19	2020-01-12	@ KC	L 31–51	0	0.0	1

2018 game log (17 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2018-09-09	@ NE	L 20–27	2	0.0	0
2	2018-09-16	@ TEN	L 17–20	6	0.0	0
3	2018-09-23	vs NYG	L 22–27	8	3.0	0
4	2018-09-30	@ IND	W 37–34 OT	3	2.0	0
5	2018-10-07	vs DAL	W 19–16 OT	2	1.0	0
6	2018-10-14	vs BUF	W 20–13	3	1.0	0
7	2018-10-21	@ JAX	W 20–7	1	0.0	1
8	2018-10-25	vs MIA	W 42–23	4	1.0	1
9	2018-11-04	@ DEN	W 19–17	2	1.0	0
11	2018-11-18	@ WAS	W 23–21	4	1.0	0
12	2018-11-26	vs TEN	W 34–17	9	1.5	0
13	2018-12-02	vs CLE	W 29–13	1	0.0	1
14	2018-12-09	vs IND	L 21–24	2	1.0	1
15	2018-12-15	@ NYJ	W 29–22	6	2.0	0
16	2018-12-23	@ PHI	L 30–32	3	0.0	0
17	2018-12-30	vs JAX	W 20–3	4	1.5	0
P18	2019-01-05	vs IND	L 7–21	2	0.0	2

2017 game log (5 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2017-09-10	vs JAX	L 7–29	1	0
2	2017-09-14	@ CIN	W 13–9	6	1
3	2017-09-24	@ NE	L 33–36	6	0
4	2017-10-01	vs TEN	W 57–14	0	1
5	2017-10-08	vs KC	L 34–42	2	0

2016 game log (3 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2016-09-11	vs CHI	W 23–14	1	0.0
2	2016-09-18	vs KC	W 19–12	5	1.5
3	2016-09-22	@ NE	L 0–27	2	0.0

2015 game log (17 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec EPA	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2015-09-13	vs KC	L 20–27	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	9	2.0	0
2	2015-09-20	@ CAR	L 17–24	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	1.0	2
3	2015-09-27	vs TB	W 19–9	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	0.0	0
4	2015-10-04	@ ATL	L 21–48	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	1.0	2
5	2015-10-08	vs IND	L 20–27	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	0.0	0
6	2015-10-18	@ JAX	W 31–20	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	0.0	1
7	2015-10-25	@ MIA	L 26–44	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	7	2.0	0
8	2015-11-01	vs TEN	W 20–6	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	2.5	0
10	2015-11-16	@ CIN	W 10–6	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	1.0	0
11	2015-11-22	vs NYJ	W 24–17	0	0	0.0	1	−0.8	8	2.0	0
12	2015-11-29	vs NO	W 24–6	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	2.0	0
13	2015-12-06	@ BUF	L 21–30	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	0.0	0
14	2015-12-13	vs NE	L 6–27	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	3	0.0	0
15	2015-12-20	@ IND	W 16–10	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	0.0	0
16	2015-12-27	@ TEN	W 34–6	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	1.0	1
17	2016-01-03	vs JAX	W 30–6	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	8	3.0	2
P18	2016-01-09	vs KC	L 0–30	1	-1	−0.6	0	0.0	1	0.0	0

2014 game log (16 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2014-09-07	vs WAS	W 17–6	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	1.0	0	1
2	2014-09-14	@ LV	W 30–14	1	1	1	1	+0.9	0	0.0	0	0
3	2014-09-21	@ NYG	L 17–30	0	0	0	0	0.0	7	1.0	0	1
4	2014-09-28	vs BUF	W 23–17	0	0	0	0	0.0	5	0.0	1	1
5	2014-10-05	@ DAL	L 17–20 OT	0	0	0	0	0.0	4	0.0	0	0
6	2014-10-09	vs IND	L 28–33	0	0	0	0	0.0	7	2.0	0	3
7	2014-10-20	@ PIT	L 23–30	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	1.0	0	0
8	2014-10-26	@ TEN	W 30–16	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	2.0	0	1
9	2014-11-02	vs PHI	L 21–31	0	0	0	0	0.0	7	1.5	0	0
11	2014-11-16	@ CLE	W 23–7	1	1	2	1	+0.8	4	1.0	0	0
12	2014-11-23	vs CIN	L 13–22	0	0	0	0	0.0	7	0.0	0	1
13	2014-11-30	vs TEN	W 45–21	1	1	1	1	+0.5	3	2.0	0	0
14	2014-12-07	@ JAX	W 27–13	0	0	0	0	0.0	4	3.0	0	1
15	2014-12-14	@ IND	L 10–17	0	0	0	0	0.0	6	2.0	0	1
16	2014-12-21	vs BAL	W 25–13	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	1.0	0	0
17	2014-12-28	vs JAX	W 23–17	0	0	0	0	0.0	6	3.0	0	0

2013 game log (16 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2013-09-09	@ LAC	W 31–28	3	0.0	1
2	2013-09-15	vs TEN	W 30–24 OT	5	2.0	2
3	2013-09-22	@ BAL	L 9–30	9	1.0	0
4	2013-09-29	vs SEA	L 20–23 OT	8	0.5	0
5	2013-10-06	@ SF	L 3–34	3	0.0	0
6	2013-10-13	vs LA	L 13–38	0	0.0	0
7	2013-10-20	@ KC	L 16–17	6	1.0	0
9	2013-11-03	vs IND	L 24–27	4	1.0	1
10	2013-11-10	@ ARI	L 24–27	4	1.0	0
11	2013-11-17	vs LV	L 23–28	5	2.0	0
12	2013-11-24	vs JAX	L 6–13	9	1.0	0
13	2013-12-01	vs NE	L 31–34	5	0.0	1
14	2013-12-05	@ JAX	L 20–27	3	0.0	1
15	2013-12-15	@ IND	L 3–25	5	0.0	0
16	2013-12-22	vs DEN	L 13–37	2	0.0	0
17	2013-12-29	@ TEN	L 10–16	9	1.0	1

2012 game log (18 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2012-09-09	vs MIA	W 30–10	3	0.5	3
2	2012-09-16	@ JAX	W 27–7	5	1.5	2
3	2012-09-23	@ DEN	W 31–25	7	2.5	0
4	2012-09-30	vs TEN	W 38–14	5	2.0	0
5	2012-10-08	@ NYJ	W 23–17	6	1.0	3
6	2012-10-14	vs GB	L 24–42	6	2.0	0
7	2012-10-21	vs BAL	W 43–13	2	0.0	2
9	2012-11-04	vs BUF	W 21–9	5	1.0	0
10	2012-11-11	@ CHI	W 13–6	2	0.0	0
11	2012-11-18	vs JAX	W 43–37 OT	8	1.0	1
12	2012-11-22	@ DET	W 34–31 OT	5	3.0	2
13	2012-12-02	@ TEN	W 24–10	6	2.0	2
14	2012-12-10	@ NE	L 14–42	4	0.0	0
15	2012-12-16	vs IND	W 29–17	10	3.0	0
16	2012-12-23	vs MIN	L 6–23	3	1.0	0
17	2012-12-30	@ IND	L 16–28	4	0.0	1
P18	2013-01-05	vs CIN	W 19–13	5	1.0	2
P19	2013-01-13	@ NE	L 28–41	4	0.5	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	5	0.0	0	0
2	2011-09-18	@ MIA	W 23–13	4	0.0	0	0
3	2011-09-25	@ NO	L 33–40	4	1.0	0	0
4	2011-10-02	vs PIT	W 17–10	1	0.0	0	0
5	2011-10-09	vs LV	L 20–25	1	0.0	0	0
6	2011-10-16	@ BAL	L 14–29	3	0.0	0	0
7	2011-10-23	@ TEN	W 41–7	3	1.0	0	0
8	2011-10-30	vs JAX	W 24–14	5	0.0	0	0
9	2011-11-06	vs CLE	W 30–12	3	0.0	0	0
10	2011-11-13	@ TB	W 37–9	3	0.5	0	0
12	2011-11-27	@ JAX	W 20–13	7	2.0	0	1
13	2011-12-04	vs ATL	W 17–10	0	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	7	0.0	0	0
16	2011-12-22	@ IND	L 16–19	5	1.0	0	3
17	2012-01-01	vs TEN	L 22–23	1	0.0	0	0
P18	2012-01-07	vs CIN	W 31–10	2	1.0	1	1
P19	2012-01-15	@ BAL	L 13–20	12	2.5	0	0