Sheldon Richardson

DT · NYJ/SEA/MIN/CLE · 2013–2021

Born November 29, 1990 · College Missouri; College of the Sequoias · Drafted 2013, round 1, pick 13 (NYJ) · 6-3, 290 lb

Defensive Rookie of the Year (2013) · Pro Bowl (2014)

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2013	NYJ	16	4	4	2	1.00	+0.210		50.0	+0.8	+0.08

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
2013	NYJ	16	77	3.5	8	12	0	1	1
2014	NYJ	16	67	8.0	21	11	0	1	1
2015	NYJ	11	35	5.0	15	4	0	2	2
2016	NYJ	13	62	1.5	9	13	0	2	1
2017	SEA	15	44	1.0	7	3	1	1	1
2018	MIN	16	49	4.5	16	6	0	0	0
2019	CLE	16	62	3.0	6	4	0	4	3
2020	CLE	15	64	4.5	10	5	0	3	1
2020 playoffs	CLE	2	6	0.0	2	0	0	1	0
2021	MIN	16	39	2.5	13	6	0	4	1
Career	MIN	134	499	33.5	105	64	1	18	11

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
2013	Defensive Rookie of the Year
2014	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	NYJ	15	–	–	739	77.5
2017	SEA	15	–	–	642	63.1
2018	MIN	16	–	–	707	68.9
2019	CLE	16	–	–	756	72.8
2020	CLE	16	–	–	780	74.1
2020 playoffs	CLE	2	–	–	118	78.7
2021	MIN	17	–	–	680	57.1

Game logs

2021 game log (16 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2021-09-12	@ CIN	L 24–27 OT	1	0.0	0
2	2021-09-19	@ ARI	L 33–34	1	0.0	0
3	2021-09-26	vs SEA	W 30–17	0	0.0	0
4	2021-10-03	vs CLE	L 7–14	5	0.0	2
6	2021-10-17	@ CAR	W 34–28 OT	1	0.0	0
8	2021-10-31	vs DAL	L 16–20	3	0.0	0
9	2021-11-07	@ BAL	L 31–34 OT	4	1.5	0
10	2021-11-14	@ LAC	W 27–20	0	0.0	0
11	2021-11-21	vs GB	W 34–31	2	0.0	0
12	2021-11-28	@ SF	L 26–34	5	0.0	0
13	2021-12-05	@ DET	L 27–29	3	0.0	0
14	2021-12-09	vs PIT	W 36–28	3	1.0	1
15	2021-12-20	@ CHI	W 17–9	3	0.0	0
16	2021-12-26	vs LA	L 23–30	4	0.0	1
17	2022-01-02	@ GB	L 10–37	3	0.0	0
18	2022-01-09	vs CHI	W 31–17	1	0.0	0

2020 game log (17 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2020-09-13	@ BAL	L 6–38	1	0.0	0
2	2020-09-17	vs CIN	W 35–30	6	1.0	0
3	2020-09-27	vs WAS	W 34–20	4	1.0	1
4	2020-10-04	@ DAL	W 49–38	3	0.0	0
5	2020-10-11	vs IND	W 32–23	3	0.0	0
6	2020-10-18	@ PIT	L 7–38	4	0.0	0
7	2020-10-25	@ CIN	W 37–34	7	0.5	0
8	2020-11-01	vs LV	L 6–16	4	0.0	1
10	2020-11-15	vs HOU	W 10–7	6	1.0	0
11	2020-11-22	vs PHI	W 22–17	4	0.0	0
12	2020-11-29	@ JAX	W 27–25	1	0.0	1
13	2020-12-06	@ TEN	W 41–35	4	0.0	0
14	2020-12-14	vs BAL	L 42–47	6	1.0	0
15	2020-12-20	@ NYG	W 20–6	1	0.0	0
16	2020-12-27	@ NYJ	L 16–23	10	0.0	0
P18	2021-01-10	@ PIT	W 48–37	3	0.0	0
P19	2021-01-17	@ KC	L 17–22	3	0.0	1

2019 game log (16 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2019-09-08	vs TEN	L 13–43	4	0.0	1
2	2019-09-16	@ NYJ	W 23–3	5	0.0	0
3	2019-09-22	vs LA	L 13–20	4	0.0	0
4	2019-09-29	@ BAL	W 40–25	6	0.0	0
5	2019-10-07	@ SF	L 3–31	5	0.0	0
6	2019-10-13	vs SEA	L 28–32	3	0.0	0
8	2019-10-27	@ NE	L 13–27	3	0.0	0
9	2019-11-03	@ DEN	L 19–24	2	0.0	0
10	2019-11-10	vs BUF	W 19–16	3	0.0	0
11	2019-11-14	vs PIT	W 21–7	3	0.0	0
12	2019-11-24	vs MIA	W 41–24	5	2.0	1
13	2019-12-01	@ PIT	L 13–20	5	0.0	0
14	2019-12-08	vs CIN	W 27–19	7	1.0	0
15	2019-12-15	@ ARI	L 24–38	1	0.0	0
16	2019-12-22	vs BAL	L 15–31	3	0.0	2
17	2019-12-29	@ CIN	L 23–33	3	0.0	0

2018 game log (16 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2018-09-09	vs SF	W 24–16	6	0.5
2	2018-09-16	@ GB	T 29–29 OT	2	0.5
3	2018-09-23	vs BUF	L 6–27	3	0.0
4	2018-09-27	@ LA	L 31–38	6	0.0
5	2018-10-07	@ PHI	W 23–21	1	0.0
6	2018-10-14	vs ARI	W 27–17	2	0.0
7	2018-10-21	@ NYJ	W 37–17	2	0.0
8	2018-10-28	vs NO	L 20–30	5	0.0
9	2018-11-04	vs DET	W 24–9	3	0.5
11	2018-11-18	@ CHI	L 20–25	1	0.0
12	2018-11-25	vs GB	W 24–17	7	2.0
13	2018-12-02	@ NE	L 10–24	3	0.0
14	2018-12-10	@ SEA	L 7–21	3	0.0
15	2018-12-16	vs MIA	W 41–17	3	1.0
16	2018-12-23	@ DET	W 27–9	1	0.0
17	2018-12-30	vs CHI	L 10–24	1	0.0

2017 game log (15 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2017-09-10	@ GB	L 9–17	4	0.0	0	0
2	2017-09-17	vs SF	W 12–9	2	0.0	0	0
3	2017-09-24	@ TEN	L 27–33	2	0.0	0	0
4	2017-10-01	vs IND	W 46–18	4	0.0	0	0
5	2017-10-08	@ LA	W 16–10	0	0.0	1	1
7	2017-10-22	@ NYG	W 24–7	2	0.0	0	0
8	2017-10-29	vs HOU	W 41–38	1	0.0	0	0
10	2017-11-09	@ ARI	W 22–16	2	0.0	0	0
11	2017-11-20	vs ATL	L 31–34	6	1.0	0	0
12	2017-11-26	@ SF	W 24–13	6	0.0	0	0
13	2017-12-03	vs PHI	W 24–10	4	0.0	0	0
14	2017-12-10	@ JAX	L 24–30	2	0.0	0	0
15	2017-12-17	vs LA	L 7–42	2	0.0	0	0
16	2017-12-24	@ DAL	W 21–12	4	0.0	0	0
17	2017-12-31	vs ARI	L 24–26	3	0.0	0	0

2016 game log (13 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2016-09-15	@ BUF	W 37–31	4	0.0	0
3	2016-09-25	@ KC	L 3–24	6	0.5	0
4	2016-10-02	vs SEA	L 17–27	2	0.0	0
5	2016-10-09	@ PIT	L 13–31	2	0.0	0
6	2016-10-17	@ ARI	L 3–28	7	0.0	0
7	2016-10-23	vs BAL	W 24–16	7	1.0	0
9	2016-11-06	@ MIA	L 23–27	6	0.0	1
10	2016-11-13	vs LA	L 6–9	7	0.0	0
12	2016-11-27	vs NE	L 17–22	3	0.0	0
14	2016-12-11	@ SF	W 23–17 OT	2	0.0	0
15	2016-12-17	vs MIA	L 13–34	2	0.0	0
16	2016-12-24	@ NE	L 3–41	8	0.0	0
17	2017-01-01	vs BUF	W 30–10	6	0.0	1

2015 game log (11 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
6	2015-10-18	vs WAS	W 34–20	3	0.5	0
7	2015-10-25	@ NE	L 23–30	4	1.0	0
8	2015-11-01	@ LV	L 20–34	2	0.0	1
9	2015-11-08	vs JAX	W 28–23	5	0.5	0
10	2015-11-12	vs BUF	L 17–22	5	0.5	0
12	2015-11-29	vs MIA	W 38–20	1	1.0	1
13	2015-12-06	@ NYG	W 23–20 OT	3	0.0	0
14	2015-12-13	vs TEN	W 30–8	1	0.0	0
15	2015-12-19	@ DAL	W 19–16	3	0.5	0
16	2015-12-27	vs NE	W 26–20 OT	2	1.0	0
17	2016-01-03	@ BUF	L 17–22	6	0.0	0

2014 game log (16 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2014-09-07	vs LV	W 19–14	0	0.0	0
2	2014-09-14	@ GB	L 24–31	4	0.0	0
3	2014-09-22	vs CHI	L 19–27	3	1.0	1
4	2014-09-28	vs DET	L 17–24	8	1.0	0
5	2014-10-05	@ LAC	L 0–31	5	1.0	0
6	2014-10-12	vs DEN	L 17–31	7	0.0	0
7	2014-10-16	@ NE	L 25–27	5	0.0	0
8	2014-10-26	vs BUF	L 23–43	9	0.5	0
9	2014-11-02	@ KC	L 10–24	4	0.0	0
10	2014-11-09	vs PIT	W 20–13	4	0.0	0
12	2014-11-24	@ BUF	L 3–38	1	0.0	0
13	2014-12-01	vs MIA	L 13–16	1	0.0	0
14	2014-12-07	@ MIN	L 24–30 OT	7	3.0	0
15	2014-12-14	@ TEN	W 16–11	3	0.0	0
16	2014-12-21	vs NE	L 16–17	3	0.5	0
17	2014-12-28	@ MIA	W 37–24	3	1.0	0

2013 game log (16 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2013-09-08	vs TB	W 18–17	0	0	0	0.0	7	0.5	0
2	2013-09-12	@ NE	L 10–13	0	0	0	0.0	5	0.0	0
3	2013-09-22	vs BUF	W 27–20	0	0	0	0.0	5	1.0	0
4	2013-09-29	@ TEN	L 13–38	0	0	0	0.0	3	0.0	0
5	2013-10-07	@ ATL	W 30–28	0	0	0	0.0	5	1.0	1
6	2013-10-13	vs PIT	L 6–19	0	0	0	0.0	5	0.0	0
7	2013-10-20	vs NE	W 30–27 OT	0	0	0	0.0	5	0.0	0
8	2013-10-27	@ CIN	L 9–49	0	0	0	0.0	2	0.0	0
9	2013-11-03	vs NO	W 26–20	0	0	0	0.0	4	0.0	0
11	2013-11-17	@ BUF	L 14–37	0	0	0	0.0	9	0.0	0
12	2013-11-24	@ BAL	L 3–19	0	0	0	0.0	9	1.0	0
13	2013-12-01	vs MIA	L 3–23	0	0	0	0.0	5	0.0	0
14	2013-12-08	vs LV	W 37–27	0	0	0	0.0	2	0.0	0
15	2013-12-15	@ CAR	L 20–30	2	2	1	+0.9	4	0.0	0
16	2013-12-22	vs CLE	W 24–13	0	0	0	0.0	6	0.0	0
17	2013-12-29	@ MIA	W 20–7	2	2	1	−0.1	1	0.0	0