Joey Bosa

DE · LAC/BUF · 2016–2025

Born July 11, 1995 · College Ohio State · Drafted 2016, round 1, pick 3 (LAC) · 6-5, 280 lb

Defensive Rookie of the Year (2016) · Pro Bowl ×5 (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024)

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	LAC	12	41	10.5	21	17	0	1
2017	LAC	16	70	12.5	21	11	1	4
2018	LAC	7	23	5.5	9	7	0	0
2018 playoffs	LAC	2	3	1.0	2	1	0	0
2019	LAC	16	67	11.5	31	18	0	1
2020	LAC	12	39	7.5	27	15	1	0
2021	LAC	16	51	10.5	20	5	0	7
2022	LAC	5	10	2.5	6	3	0	1
2022 playoffs	LAC	1	1	0.0	1	0	0	0
2023	LAC	8	20	6.5	9	6	1	1
2024	LAC	12	22	5.0	13	5	0	2
2024 playoffs	LAC	1	2	1.0	1	1	0	0
2025	BUF	15	29	5.0	16	9	2	5
2025 playoffs	BUF	2	3	0.0	1	0	0	0
Career	BUF	119	372	77.0	173	96	5	22

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
2016	Defensive Rookie of the Year
2017	Pro Bowl
2019	Pro Bowl
2020	Pro Bowl
2021	Pro Bowl
2024	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	LAC	12	–	–	554	71.4
2017	LAC	16	–	–	844	81.1
2018	LAC	7	–	–	308	71.3
2018 playoffs	LAC	2	–	–	110	79.7
2019	LAC	16	–	–	829	86.4
2020	LAC	12	–	–	541	68.9
2021	LAC	16	–	–	834	77.6
2022	LAC	5	–	–	160	53.9
2022 playoffs	LAC	1	–	–	37	51.4
2023	LAC	9	–	–	317	51.2
2024	LAC	14	–	–	456	50.1
2024 playoffs	LAC	1	–	–	46	64.8
2025	BUF	15	–	–	559	64.5
2025 playoffs	BUF	2	–	–	88	70.4

Game logs

2025 game log (17 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2025-09-07	vs BAL	W 41–40	2	0.0	0
2	2025-09-14	@ NYJ	W 30–10	2	1.0	0
3	2025-09-18	vs MIA	W 31–21	1	0.0	0
4	2025-09-28	vs NO	W 31–19	3	1.0	0
5	2025-10-05	vs NE	L 20–23	1	0.0	0
6	2025-10-13	@ ATL	L 14–24	5	0.0	0
8	2025-10-26	@ CAR	W 40–9	2	1.0	0
9	2025-11-02	vs KC	W 28–21	3	1.0	0
10	2025-11-09	@ MIA	L 13–30	4	0.0	0
11	2025-11-16	vs TB	W 44–32	1	0.0	0
12	2025-11-20	@ HOU	L 19–23	0	0.0	0
13	2025-11-30	@ PIT	W 26–7	2	1.0	0
15	2025-12-14	@ NE	W 35–31	0	0.0	1
16	2025-12-21	@ CLE	W 23–20	1	0.0	1
17	2025-12-28	vs PHI	L 12–13	2	0.0	0
P19	2026-01-11	@ JAX	W 27–24	0	0.0	0
P20	2026-01-17	@ DEN	L 30–33 OT	3	0.0	0

2024 game log (13 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2024-09-08	vs LV	W 22–10	7	1.0
2	2024-09-15	@ CAR	W 26–3	2	1.0
9	2024-11-03	@ CLE	W 27–10	0	0.0
10	2024-11-10	vs TEN	W 27–17	1	1.0
11	2024-11-17	vs CIN	W 34–27	1	0.0
12	2024-11-25	vs BAL	L 23–30	4	0.0
13	2024-12-01	@ ATL	W 17–13	0	0.0
14	2024-12-08	@ KC	L 17–19	1	1.0
15	2024-12-15	vs TB	L 17–40	2	0.0
16	2024-12-19	vs DEN	W 34–27	3	1.0
17	2024-12-28	@ NE	W 40–7	1	0.0
18	2025-01-05	@ LV	W 34–20	0	0.0
P19	2025-01-11	@ HOU	L 12–32	2	1.0

2023 game log (8 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs MIA	L 34–36	1	0.0	0
2	2023-09-17	@ TEN	L 24–27 OT	4	2.0	0
3	2023-09-24	@ MIN	W 28–24	1	1.0	1
6	2023-10-16	vs DAL	L 17–20	2	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	@ KC	L 17–31	1	0.0	0
8	2023-10-29	vs CHI	W 30–13	4	1.0	0
9	2023-11-06	@ NYJ	W 27–6	6	2.5	0
10	2023-11-12	vs DET	L 38–41	1	0.0	0

2022 game log (6 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2022-09-11	vs LV	W 24–19	3	1.5
2	2022-09-15	@ KC	L 24–27	3	0.0
3	2022-09-25	vs JAX	L 10–38	1	0.0
17	2023-01-01	vs LA	W 31–10	2	0.0
18	2023-01-08	@ DEN	L 28–31	1	1.0
P19	2023-01-14	@ JAX	L 30–31	1	0.0

2021 game log (16 games)

2021 game log

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

2020 game log (12 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2020-09-13	@ CIN	W 16–13	5	1.0	0
2	2020-09-20	vs KC	L 20–23 OT	4	1.0	0
3	2020-09-27	vs CAR	L 16–21	2	1.0	0
4	2020-10-04	@ TB	L 31–38	1	0.0	0
5	2020-10-12	@ NO	L 27–30 OT	1	1.0	0
7	2020-10-25	vs JAX	W 39–29	3	0.5	0
8	2020-11-01	@ DEN	L 30–31	2	0.0	0
11	2020-11-22	vs NYJ	W 34–28	2	0.0	0
12	2020-11-29	@ BUF	L 17–27	9	3.0	1
13	2020-12-06	vs NE	L 0–45	3	0.0	0
14	2020-12-13	vs ATL	W 20–17	3	0.0	0
15	2020-12-17	@ LV	W 30–27 OT	4	0.0	0

2019 game log (16 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2019-09-08	vs IND	W 30–24 OT	8	1.0
2	2019-09-15	@ DET	L 10–13	6	0.0
3	2019-09-22	vs HOU	L 20–27	3	0.5
4	2019-09-29	@ MIA	W 30–10	3	0.5
5	2019-10-06	vs DEN	L 13–20	5	1.0
6	2019-10-13	vs PIT	L 17–24	4	0.0
7	2019-10-20	@ TEN	L 20–23	6	2.0
8	2019-10-27	@ CHI	W 17–16	7	2.0
9	2019-11-03	vs GB	W 26–11	4	1.5
10	2019-11-07	@ LV	L 24–26	2	0.0
11	2019-11-18	vs KC	L 17–24	2	0.0
13	2019-12-01	@ DEN	L 20–23	1	0.0
14	2019-12-08	@ JAX	W 45–10	4	2.0
15	2019-12-15	vs MIN	L 10–39	5	0.0
16	2019-12-22	vs LV	L 17–24	4	1.0
17	2019-12-29	@ KC	L 21–31	3	0.0

2018 game log (9 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
11	2018-11-18	vs DEN	L 22–23	1	0.0
12	2018-11-25	vs ARI	W 45–10	5	2.0
13	2018-12-02	@ PIT	W 33–30	6	1.0
14	2018-12-09	vs CIN	W 26–21	6	1.0
15	2018-12-13	@ KC	W 29–28	1	0.0
16	2018-12-22	vs BAL	L 10–22	2	0.5
17	2018-12-30	@ DEN	W 23–9	2	1.0
P18	2019-01-06	@ BAL	W 23–17	2	1.0
P19	2019-01-13	@ NE	L 28–41	1	0.0

2017 game log (16 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2017-09-11	@ DEN	L 21–24	6	1.5	0
2	2017-09-17	vs MIA	L 17–19	5	0.0	0
3	2017-09-24	vs KC	L 10–24	6	1.0	0
4	2017-10-01	vs PHI	L 24–26	6	0.0	0
5	2017-10-08	@ NYG	W 27–22	6	2.0	0
6	2017-10-15	@ LV	W 17–16	3	1.0	0
7	2017-10-22	vs DEN	W 21–0	2	2.0	1
8	2017-10-29	@ NE	L 13–21	4	1.0	0
10	2017-11-12	@ JAX	L 17–20 OT	4	1.0	0
11	2017-11-19	vs BUF	W 54–24	1	1.0	0
12	2017-11-23	@ DAL	W 28–6	4	0.0	0
13	2017-12-03	vs CLE	W 19–10	7	1.0	0
14	2017-12-10	vs WAS	W 30–13	3	0.0	0
15	2017-12-16	@ KC	L 13–30	4	0.0	0
16	2017-12-24	@ NYJ	W 14–7	4	0.0	0
17	2017-12-31	vs LV	W 30–10	5	1.0	0

2016 game log (12 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
5	2016-10-09	@ LV	L 31–34	5	2.0
6	2016-10-13	vs DEN	W 21–13	1	0.0
7	2016-10-23	@ ATL	W 33–30 OT	5	2.0
8	2016-10-30	@ DEN	L 19–27	2	0.0
9	2016-11-06	vs TEN	W 43–35	1	0.0
10	2016-11-13	vs MIA	L 24–31	1	0.0
12	2016-11-27	@ HOU	W 21–13	7	0.5
13	2016-12-04	vs TB	L 21–28	2	1.0
14	2016-12-11	@ CAR	L 16–28	3	1.0
15	2016-12-18	vs LV	L 16–19	4	1.0
16	2016-12-24	@ CLE	L 17–20	5	2.0
17	2017-01-01	vs KC	L 27–37	5	1.0