Michael Pierce

DT · BAL/MIN · 2016–2024

Born November 6, 1992 · College Samford; Tulane · Undrafted · 6-0, 355 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
2016	BAL	13	35	2.0	5	5	0	1	0
2017	BAL	15	49	1.0	3	2	0	0	0
2018	BAL	13	32	0.0	2	4	0	1	0
2018 playoffs	BAL	1	2	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	BAL	13	35	0.5	3	2	0	0	0
2019 playoffs	BAL	1	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	MIN	7	20	3.0	4	3	0	0	1
2022	BAL	2	6	0.0	1	0	0	0	1
2023	BAL	16	42	1.0	3	2	0	2	1
2023 playoffs	BAL	2	3	0.5	1	1	0	0	0
2024	BAL	10	19	2.0	4	1	1	2	0
2024 playoffs	BAL	2	6	1.0	1	1	0	0	0
Career	BAL	89	238	9.5	25	19	1	6	3

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	BAL	16	1	1.2	362	35.1
2017	BAL	16	–	–	584	54.1
2018	BAL	14	–	–	383	43.7
2018 playoffs	BAL	1	–	–	20	29.9
2019	BAL	14	–	–	473	55.3
2019 playoffs	BAL	1	–	–	37	72.5
2021	MIN	8	–	–	249	46.1
2022	BAL	3	–	–	91	41.4
2023	BAL	17	–	–	631	55.5
2023 playoffs	BAL	2	–	–	57	45.6
2024	BAL	11	–	–	227	32.2
2024 playoffs	BAL	2	–	–	23	22.1

Game logs

2024 game log (12 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2024-09-05	@ KC	L 20–27	4	0.0	0	0
2	2024-09-15	vs LV	L 23–26	1	0.5	0	0
3	2024-09-22	@ DAL	W 28–25	2	0.0	0	1
5	2024-10-06	@ CIN	W 41–38 OT	2	0.0	0	0
6	2024-10-13	vs WAS	W 30–23	4	0.5	0	0
7	2024-10-21	@ TB	W 41–31	2	0.0	0	0
15	2024-12-15	@ NYG	W 35–14	1	0.0	0	0
16	2024-12-21	vs PIT	W 34–17	1	1.0	0	0
17	2024-12-25	@ HOU	W 31–2	2	0.0	0	0
18	2025-01-04	vs CLE	W 35–10	0	0.0	1	1
P19	2025-01-11	vs PIT	W 28–14	1	1.0	0	0
P20	2025-01-19	@ BUF	L 25–27	5	0.0	0	0

2023 game log (18 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs HOU	W 25–9	3	0.0	0
2	2023-09-17	@ CIN	W 27–24	2	0.0	0
3	2023-09-24	vs IND	L 19–22 OT	5	0.0	0
5	2023-10-08	@ PIT	L 10–17	2	0.0	0
6	2023-10-15	@ TEN	W 24–16	1	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	vs DET	W 38–6	2	0.0	0
8	2023-10-29	@ ARI	W 31–24	5	1.0	1
9	2023-11-05	vs SEA	W 37–3	0	0.0	1
10	2023-11-12	vs CLE	L 31–33	4	0.0	0
11	2023-11-16	vs CIN	W 34–20	0	0.0	0
12	2023-11-26	@ LAC	W 20–10	4	0.0	0
14	2023-12-10	vs LA	W 37–31 OT	1	0.0	0
15	2023-12-17	@ JAX	W 23–7	2	0.0	0
16	2023-12-25	@ SF	W 33–19	2	0.0	0
17	2023-12-31	vs MIA	W 56–19	3	0.0	0
18	2024-01-06	vs PIT	L 10–17	6	0.0	0
P20	2024-01-20	vs HOU	W 34–10	1	0.0	0
P21	2024-01-28	vs KC	L 10–17	2	0.5	0

2022 game log (2 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2022-09-11	@ NYJ	W 24–9	3	0.0	0	0
2	2022-09-18	vs MIA	L 38–42	3	0.0	0	0

2021 game log (7 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2021-09-12	@ CIN	L 24–27 OT	7	2.0
2	2021-09-19	@ ARI	L 33–34	1	0.0
4	2021-10-03	vs CLE	L 7–14	1	0.0
13	2021-12-05	@ DET	L 27–29	2	0.0
14	2021-12-09	vs PIT	W 36–28	3	1.0
15	2021-12-20	@ CHI	W 17–9	3	0.0
16	2021-12-26	vs LA	L 23–30	3	0.0

2019 game log (14 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2019-09-08	@ MIA	W 59–10	3	0.0
2	2019-09-15	vs ARI	W 23–17	2	0.0
3	2019-09-22	@ KC	L 28–33	4	0.0
4	2019-09-29	vs CLE	L 25–40	4	0.0
5	2019-10-06	@ PIT	W 26–23 OT	4	0.0
6	2019-10-13	vs CIN	W 23–17	1	0.0
7	2019-10-20	@ SEA	W 30–16	2	0.0
9	2019-11-03	vs NE	W 37–20	1	0.0
13	2019-12-01	vs SF	W 20–17	1	0.0
14	2019-12-08	@ BUF	W 24–17	4	0.5
15	2019-12-12	vs NYJ	W 42–21	3	0.0
16	2019-12-22	@ CLE	W 31–15	3	0.0
17	2019-12-29	vs PIT	W 28–10	3	0.0
P19	2020-01-11	vs TEN	L 12–28	5	0.0

2018 game log (14 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2018-09-09	vs BUF	W 47–3	1	0
2	2018-09-13	@ CIN	L 23–34	2	0
6	2018-10-14	@ TEN	W 21–0	2	0
7	2018-10-21	vs NO	L 23–24	4	0
8	2018-10-28	@ CAR	L 21–36	2	0
9	2018-11-04	vs PIT	L 16–23	3	0
11	2018-11-18	vs CIN	W 24–21	2	1
12	2018-11-25	vs LV	W 34–17	1	0
13	2018-12-02	@ ATL	W 26–16	1	0
14	2018-12-09	@ KC	L 24–27 OT	6	0
15	2018-12-16	vs TB	W 20–12	3	0
16	2018-12-22	@ LAC	W 22–10	2	0
17	2018-12-30	vs CLE	W 26–24	3	0
P18	2019-01-06	vs LAC	L 17–23	2	0

2017 game log (15 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2017-09-10	@ CIN	W 20–0	4	1.0
2	2017-09-17	vs CLE	W 24–10	1	0.0
3	2017-09-24	@ JAX	L 7–44	3	0.0
4	2017-10-01	vs PIT	L 9–26	7	0.0
5	2017-10-08	@ LV	W 30–17	1	0.0
6	2017-10-15	vs CHI	L 24–27 OT	6	0.0
7	2017-10-22	@ MIN	L 16–24	4	0.0
8	2017-10-26	vs MIA	W 40–0	2	0.0
11	2017-11-19	@ GB	W 23–0	3	0.0
12	2017-11-27	vs HOU	W 23–16	3	0.0
13	2017-12-03	vs DET	W 44–20	6	0.0
14	2017-12-10	@ PIT	L 38–39	3	0.0
15	2017-12-17	@ CLE	W 27–10	2	0.0
16	2017-12-23	vs IND	W 23–16	2	0.0
17	2017-12-31	vs CIN	L 27–31	2	0.0

2016 game log (13 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2016-09-11	vs BUF	W 13–7	2	0.0	0
2	2016-09-18	@ CLE	W 25–20	1	1.0	0
3	2016-09-25	@ JAX	W 19–17	1	0.0	0
4	2016-10-02	vs LV	L 27–28	1	0.0	0
5	2016-10-09	vs WAS	L 10–16	3	0.0	0
6	2016-10-16	@ NYG	L 23–27	3	0.0	0
7	2016-10-23	@ NYJ	L 16–24	5	1.0	0
9	2016-11-06	vs PIT	W 21–14	2	0.0	0
10	2016-11-10	vs CLE	W 28–7	1	0.0	1
11	2016-11-20	@ DAL	L 17–27	5	0.0	0
12	2016-11-27	vs CIN	W 19–14	2	0.0	0
15	2016-12-18	vs PHI	W 27–26	2	0.0	0
17	2017-01-01	@ CIN	L 10–27	7	0.0	0