Sione Takitaki

LB · CLE/NE/MIN · 2019–2025

Born June 8, 1995 · College BYU · Drafted 2019, round 3, pick 80 (CLE) · 6-1, 245 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
2019	CLE	11	21	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	CLE	15	67	1.0	2	2	1	1	0
2020 playoffs	CLE	2	8	0.0	0	0	1	1	0
2021	CLE	14	44	0.0	2	5	0	0	1
2022	CLE	11	71	1.0	1	4	0	0	1
2023	CLE	14	66	2.0	3	3	1	3	0
2023 playoffs	CLE	1	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2024	NE	10	21	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2025	MIN	2	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
Career	MIN	77	293	4.0	8	14	2	4	2

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
2019	CLE	8	–	–	100	19.0
2020	CLE	15	1	1.4	425	42.9
2020 playoffs	CLE	2	–	–	61	40.7
2021	CLE	15	1	1.7	270	27.1
2022	CLE	12	–	–	482	64.5
2023	CLE	15	–	–	555	61.5
2023 playoffs	CLE	1	–	–	42	97.7
2024	NE	11	1	1.4	190	26.7

Game logs

2025 game log (2 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
16	2025-12-21	@ NYG	W 16–13	2	0.0	0	0
17	2025-12-25	vs DET	W 23–10	1	0.0	0	0

2024 game log (10 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
6	2024-10-13	vs HOU	L 21–41	1
9	2024-11-03	@ TEN	L 17–20 OT	1
10	2024-11-10	@ CHI	W 19–3	1
11	2024-11-17	vs LA	L 22–28	1
12	2024-11-24	@ MIA	L 15–34	1
13	2024-12-01	vs IND	L 24–25	1
15	2024-12-15	@ ARI	L 17–30	4
16	2024-12-22	@ BUF	L 21–24	2
17	2024-12-28	vs LAC	L 7–40	8
18	2025-01-05	vs BUF	W 23–16	1

2023 game log (15 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs CIN	W 24–3	3	0.0	0	0
2	2023-09-18	@ PIT	L 22–26	2	1.0	0	0
3	2023-09-24	vs TEN	W 27–3	1	0.0	0	0
4	2023-10-01	vs BAL	L 3–28	5	0.0	0	0
6	2023-10-15	vs SF	W 19–17	1	1.0	0	0
9	2023-11-05	vs ARI	W 27–0	3	0.0	1	1
10	2023-11-12	@ BAL	W 33–31	3	0.0	0	0
11	2023-11-19	vs PIT	W 13–10	5	0.0	0	1
12	2023-11-26	@ DEN	L 12–29	7	0.0	0	0
13	2023-12-03	@ LA	L 19–36	4	0.0	0	0
14	2023-12-10	vs JAX	W 31–27	4	0.0	0	0
15	2023-12-17	vs CHI	W 20–17	5	0.0	0	0
16	2023-12-24	@ HOU	W 36–22	7	0.0	0	0
17	2023-12-28	vs NYJ	W 37–20	16	0.0	0	1
P19	2024-01-13	@ HOU	L 14–45	3	0.0	0	0

2022 game log (11 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2022-09-11	@ CAR	W 26–24	2	0.0
3	2022-09-22	vs PIT	W 29–17	3	0.0
4	2022-10-02	@ ATL	L 20–23	4	0.0
5	2022-10-09	vs LAC	L 28–30	2	0.0
6	2022-10-16	vs NE	L 15–38	5	0.0
7	2022-10-23	@ BAL	L 20–23	8	0.0
8	2022-10-31	vs CIN	W 32–13	13	1.0
10	2022-11-13	@ MIA	L 17–39	10	0.0
11	2022-11-20	@ BUF	L 23–31	9	0.0
12	2022-11-27	vs TB	W 23–17 OT	6	0.0
13	2022-12-04	@ HOU	W 27–14	9	0.0

2021 game log (14 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
1	2021-09-12	@ KC	L 29–33	1
2	2021-09-19	vs HOU	W 31–21	2
4	2021-10-03	@ MIN	W 14–7	2
5	2021-10-10	@ LAC	L 42–47	5
6	2021-10-17	vs ARI	L 14–37	1
7	2021-10-21	vs DEN	W 17–14	3
8	2021-10-31	vs PIT	L 10–15	3
9	2021-11-07	@ CIN	W 41–16	7
10	2021-11-14	@ NE	L 7–45	5
11	2021-11-21	vs DET	W 13–10	1
12	2021-11-28	@ BAL	L 10–16	4
15	2021-12-20	vs LV	L 14–16	6
16	2021-12-25	@ GB	L 22–24	1
17	2022-01-03	@ PIT	L 14–26	3

2020 game log (17 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2020-09-13	@ BAL	L 6–38	7	0.0	0	0
2	2020-09-17	vs CIN	W 35–30	5	0.0	0	0
3	2020-09-27	vs WAS	W 34–20	7	0.0	0	0
4	2020-10-04	@ DAL	W 49–38	4	0.0	0	0
5	2020-10-11	vs IND	W 32–23	7	0.0	0	0
6	2020-10-18	@ PIT	L 7–38	3	0.0	0	0
7	2020-10-25	@ CIN	W 37–34	3	0.0	0	0
8	2020-11-01	vs LV	L 6–16	3	0.0	0	0
10	2020-11-15	vs HOU	W 10–7	3	0.0	0	0
11	2020-11-22	vs PHI	W 22–17	3	0.0	1	1
13	2020-12-06	@ TEN	W 41–35	4	0.0	0	0
14	2020-12-14	vs BAL	L 42–47	5	1.0	0	0
15	2020-12-20	@ NYG	W 20–6	4	0.0	0	0
16	2020-12-27	@ NYJ	L 16–23	7	0.0	0	0
17	2021-01-03	vs PIT	W 24–22	2	0.0	0	0
P18	2021-01-10	@ PIT	W 48–37	3	0.0	1	1
P19	2021-01-17	@ KC	L 17–22	5	0.0	0	0

2019 game log (11 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
2	2019-09-16	@ NYJ	W 23–3	1
4	2019-09-29	@ BAL	W 40–25	1
8	2019-10-27	@ NE	L 13–27	2
9	2019-11-03	@ DEN	L 19–24	1
10	2019-11-10	vs BUF	W 19–16	2
12	2019-11-24	vs MIA	W 41–24	2
13	2019-12-01	@ PIT	L 13–20	3
14	2019-12-08	vs CIN	W 27–19	1
15	2019-12-15	@ ARI	L 24–38	1
16	2019-12-22	vs BAL	L 15–31	6
17	2019-12-29	@ CIN	L 23–33	1