James Lynch

DT · MIN/TEN/CHI · 2020–2026

Born January 20, 1999 · College Baylor · Drafted 2020, round 4, pick 130 (MIN) · 6-4, 295 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
2020	MIN	3	3	1.0	1	1	0	0
2021	MIN	11	30	1.0	1	2	0	0
2022	MIN	13	20	0.0	0	1	0	0
2022 playoffs	MIN	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
2024	TEN	9	20	1.0	2	2	0	2
2025	TEN	16	25	0.5	3	1	0	1
2026	CHI	8	19	0.0	0	1	1	2
Career	CHI	60	117	3.5	7	8	1	5

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
2020	MIN	9	–	–	58	10.2
2021	MIN	13	–	–	298	32.0
2022	MIN	15	–	–	274	26.4
2022 playoffs	MIN	1	–	–	14	20.6
2024	TEN	17	–	–	234	22.5
2025	TEN	17	–	–	323	31.2

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2026-09-13	@ CAR	W 59–37	3	0	0
2	2026-09-20	vs MIN	L 3–9	7	0	0
3	2026-09-28	vs PHI	W 27–7	1	0	0
5	2026-10-11	@ GB	L 7–31	4	0	0
6	2026-10-18	@ ATL	W 31–23	0	0	1
7	2026-10-22	vs NE	W 30–24	1	0	0
8	2026-11-02	@ SEA	W 34–17	2	1	1
9	2026-11-08	vs TB	W 27–24	1	0	0

2025 game log (16 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2025-09-07	@ DEN	L 12–20	2	0.0	0
2	2025-09-14	vs LA	L 19–33	1	0.0	0
3	2025-09-21	vs IND	L 20–41	2	0.0	0
4	2025-09-28	@ HOU	L 0–26	1	0.0	0
5	2025-10-05	@ ARI	W 22–21	2	0.0	0
6	2025-10-12	@ LV	L 10–20	1	0.0	0
7	2025-10-19	vs NE	L 13–31	3	0.0	0
8	2025-10-26	@ IND	L 14–38	1	0.0	0
9	2025-11-02	vs LAC	L 20–27	3	0.0	0
11	2025-11-16	vs HOU	L 13–16	1	0.0	0
13	2025-11-30	vs JAX	L 3–25	1	0.0	1
14	2025-12-07	@ CLE	W 31–29	2	0.0	0
15	2025-12-14	@ SF	L 24–37	1	0.0	0
16	2025-12-21	vs KC	W 26–9	1	0.0	0
17	2025-12-28	vs NO	L 26–34	1	0.5	0
18	2026-01-04	@ JAX	L 7–41	2	0.0	0

2024 game log (9 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
4	2024-09-30	@ MIA	W 31–12	4	0.0	0
7	2024-10-20	@ BUF	L 10–34	2	0.0	0
9	2024-11-03	vs NE	W 20–17 OT	1	0.0	1
11	2024-11-17	vs MIN	L 13–23	1	0.0	0
13	2024-12-01	@ WAS	L 19–42	2	0.0	1
15	2024-12-15	vs CIN	L 27–37	2	0.0	0
16	2024-12-22	@ IND	L 30–38	3	0.0	0
17	2024-12-29	@ JAX	L 13–20	1	1.0	0
18	2025-01-05	vs HOU	L 14–23	4	0.0	0

2022 game log (14 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
1	2022-09-11	vs GB	W 23–7	1
3	2022-09-25	vs DET	W 28–24	1
4	2022-10-02	@ NO	W 28–25	1
5	2022-10-09	vs CHI	W 29–22	1
6	2022-10-16	@ MIA	W 24–16	1
8	2022-10-30	vs ARI	W 34–26	1
9	2022-11-06	@ WAS	W 20–17	2
10	2022-11-13	@ BUF	W 33–30 OT	5
11	2022-11-20	vs DAL	L 3–40	1
12	2022-11-24	vs NE	W 33–26	2
13	2022-12-04	vs NYJ	W 27–22	1
14	2022-12-11	@ DET	L 23–34	1
15	2022-12-17	vs IND	W 39–36 OT	2
P19	2023-01-15	vs NYG	L 24–31	1

2021 game log (11 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
5	2021-10-10	vs DET	W 19–17	2	0.0
6	2021-10-17	@ CAR	W 34–28 OT	2	1.0
9	2021-11-07	@ BAL	L 31–34 OT	3	0.0
10	2021-11-14	@ LAC	W 27–20	4	0.0
11	2021-11-21	vs GB	W 34–31	2	0.0
12	2021-11-28	@ SF	L 26–34	5	0.0
14	2021-12-09	vs PIT	W 36–28	2	0.0
15	2021-12-20	@ CHI	W 17–9	3	0.0
16	2021-12-26	vs LA	L 23–30	1	0.0
17	2022-01-02	@ GB	L 10–37	4	0.0
18	2022-01-09	vs CHI	W 31–17	2	0.0

2020 game log (3 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
5	2020-10-11	@ SEA	L 26–27	1	1.0
11	2020-11-22	vs DAL	L 28–31	1	0.0
14	2020-12-13	@ TB	L 14–26	1	0.0