Whitney Mercilus

DE · HOU · 2012–2021

Born July 21, 1990 · College Illinois · Drafted 2012, round 1, pick 26 (HOU) · 6-4, 258 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2016)

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
2012	HOU	14	25	6.0	7	6	0	1	2
2012 playoffs	HOU	1	2	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2013	HOU	16	47	7.0	18	6	0	0	0
2014	HOU	14	50	5.0	11	9	0	0	2
2015	HOU	16	52	12.0	16	14	0	2	1
2015 playoffs	HOU	1	8	3.0	4	3	0	0	0
2016	HOU	15	53	7.5	22	13	0	1	1
2016 playoffs	HOU	2	11	3.0	5	4	0	1	0
2017	HOU	3	10	1.0	1	1	0	0	1
2018	HOU	15	38	4.0	14	5	0	0	2
2018 playoffs	HOU	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	HOU	14	48	7.5	16	9	2	2	4
2019 playoffs	HOU	2	5	1.0	4	0	0	0	1
2020	HOU	11	21	4.0	7	5	0	1	0
2021	HOU	9	17	4.0	5	5	0	0	0
Career	HOU	127	361	58.0	117	73	2	7	13

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	2nd-team All-Pro

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	HOU	15	–	–	860	91.0
2016 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	138	99.3
2017	HOU	5	–	–	202	66.2
2018	HOU	16	–	–	775	73.4
2018 playoffs	HOU	1	–	–	35	52.2
2019	HOU	16	–	–	937	88.4
2019 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	119	85.0
2020	HOU	13	–	–	599	68.9
2021	HOU/GB	10	–	–	307	48.5
2021 playoffs	GB	1	–	–	12	22.2

Game logs

2021 game log (9 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2021-09-12	vs JAX	W 37–21	3	1.0
2	2021-09-19	@ CLE	L 21–31	2	0.0
3	2021-09-23	vs CAR	L 9–24	2	1.0
4	2021-10-03	@ BUF	L 0–40	2	1.0
5	2021-10-10	vs NE	L 22–25	1	0.0
6	2021-10-17	@ IND	L 3–31	2	0.0
8	2021-10-28	@ ARI	W 24–21	1	0.0
9	2021-11-07	@ KC	L 7–13	1	0.0
10	2021-11-14	vs SEA	W 17–0	3	1.0

2020 game log (11 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2020-09-10	@ KC	L 20–34	3	0.0	0
3	2020-09-27	@ PIT	L 21–28	5	0.0	0
4	2020-10-04	vs MIN	L 23–31	4	2.0	0
5	2020-10-11	vs JAX	W 30–14	1	1.0	0
6	2020-10-18	@ TEN	L 36–42 OT	0	0.0	0
7	2020-10-25	vs GB	L 20–35	1	0.0	0
10	2020-11-15	@ CLE	L 7–10	4	0.0	0
11	2020-11-22	vs NE	W 27–20	1	0.0	0
12	2020-11-26	@ DET	W 41–25	1	1.0	1
14	2020-12-13	@ CHI	L 7–36	0	0.0	0
15	2020-12-20	@ IND	L 20–27	1	0.0	0

2019 game log (16 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2019-09-09	@ NO	L 28–30	5	1.0	1	1
2	2019-09-15	vs JAX	W 13–12	3	2.0	0	0
3	2019-09-22	@ LAC	W 27–20	5	1.0	0	0
4	2019-09-29	vs CAR	L 10–16	2	1.0	0	0
5	2019-10-06	vs ATL	W 53–32	4	0.0	0	0
7	2019-10-20	@ IND	L 23–30	4	0.5	0	0
8	2019-10-27	vs LV	W 27–24	6	0.0	0	0
9	2019-11-03	@ JAX	W 26–3	3	0.0	0	0
11	2019-11-17	@ BAL	L 7–41	2	0.0	0	0
12	2019-11-21	vs IND	W 20–17	4	0.0	0	0
13	2019-12-01	vs NE	W 28–22	1	0.0	0	0
14	2019-12-08	vs DEN	L 24–38	3	0.0	0	0
15	2019-12-15	@ TEN	W 24–21	2	0.0	1	1
16	2019-12-21	@ TB	W 23–20	4	2.0	0	0
P18	2020-01-04	vs BUF	W 22–19 OT	4	1.0	0	0
P19	2020-01-12	@ KC	L 31–51	1	0.0	0	0

2018 game log (16 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2018-09-09	@ NE	L 20–27	2	0.0
2	2018-09-16	@ TEN	L 17–20	3	0.0
3	2018-09-23	vs NYG	L 22–27	3	0.0
4	2018-09-30	@ IND	W 37–34 OT	1	0.0
6	2018-10-14	vs BUF	W 20–13	4	0.0
7	2018-10-21	@ JAX	W 20–7	3	1.0
8	2018-10-25	vs MIA	W 42–23	1	0.0
9	2018-11-04	@ DEN	W 19–17	2	0.0
11	2018-11-18	@ WAS	W 23–21	3	1.0
12	2018-11-26	vs TEN	W 34–17	5	1.5
13	2018-12-02	vs CLE	W 29–13	2	0.0
14	2018-12-09	vs IND	L 21–24	3	0.0
15	2018-12-15	@ NYJ	W 29–22	3	0.0
16	2018-12-23	@ PHI	L 30–32	1	0.0
17	2018-12-30	vs JAX	W 20–3	2	0.5
P18	2019-01-05	vs IND	L 7–21	1	0.0

2017 game log (3 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2017-09-10	vs JAX	L 7–29	4	0.0
3	2017-09-24	@ NE	L 33–36	5	1.0
4	2017-10-01	vs TEN	W 57–14	1	0.0

2016 game log (17 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2016-09-11	vs CHI	W 23–14	4	2.0	0
2	2016-09-18	vs KC	W 19–12	3	0.0	0
3	2016-09-22	@ NE	L 0–27	4	0.0	0
4	2016-10-02	vs TEN	W 27–20	7	0.0	0
5	2016-10-09	@ MIN	L 13–31	3	1.5	0
6	2016-10-16	vs IND	W 26–23 OT	6	1.0	0
7	2016-10-24	@ DEN	L 9–27	3	0.0	0
8	2016-10-30	vs DET	W 20–13	0	0.0	0
10	2016-11-13	@ JAX	W 24–21	2	0.0	0
11	2016-11-21	@ LV	L 20–27	3	0.0	0
12	2016-11-27	vs LAC	L 13–21	4	0.0	0
13	2016-12-04	@ GB	L 13–21	6	1.0	0
14	2016-12-11	@ IND	W 22–17	3	0.0	1
16	2016-12-24	vs CIN	W 12–10	3	2.0	0
17	2017-01-01	@ TEN	L 17–24	2	0.0	0
P18	2017-01-07	vs LV	W 27–14	7	2.0	0
P19	2017-01-14	@ NE	L 16–34	4	1.0	1

2015 game log (17 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2015-09-13	vs KC	L 20–27	2	0.0	1
2	2015-09-20	@ CAR	L 17–24	5	0.0	0
3	2015-09-27	vs TB	W 19–9	2	0.0	0
4	2015-10-04	@ ATL	L 21–48	3	0.0	0
5	2015-10-08	vs IND	L 20–27	3	0.0	0
6	2015-10-18	@ JAX	W 31–20	3	2.0	0
7	2015-10-25	@ MIA	L 26–44	2	0.0	0
8	2015-11-01	vs TEN	W 20–6	7	3.5	0
10	2015-11-16	@ CIN	W 10–6	5	1.0	0
11	2015-11-22	vs NYJ	W 24–17	2	0.0	0
12	2015-11-29	vs NO	W 24–6	1	0.0	0
13	2015-12-06	@ BUF	L 21–30	4	0.0	1
14	2015-12-13	vs NE	L 6–27	5	1.0	0
15	2015-12-20	@ IND	W 16–10	2	1.0	0
16	2015-12-27	@ TEN	W 34–6	1	0.0	0
17	2016-01-03	vs JAX	W 30–6	5	3.5	0
P18	2016-01-09	vs KC	L 0–30	8	3.0	0

2014 game log (14 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2014-09-07	vs WAS	W 17–6	0	0.0
2	2014-09-14	@ LV	W 30–14	1	0.0
3	2014-09-21	@ NYG	L 17–30	5	0.0
4	2014-09-28	vs BUF	W 23–17	2	0.0
5	2014-10-05	@ DAL	L 17–20 OT	5	0.0
6	2014-10-09	vs IND	L 28–33	6	0.0
7	2014-10-20	@ PIT	L 23–30	5	2.0
9	2014-11-02	vs PHI	L 21–31	9	2.0
11	2014-11-16	@ CLE	W 23–7	2	0.0
12	2014-11-23	vs CIN	L 13–22	5	0.0
13	2014-11-30	vs TEN	W 45–21	3	0.0
14	2014-12-07	@ JAX	W 27–13	1	0.0
16	2014-12-21	vs BAL	W 25–13	3	0.0
17	2014-12-28	vs JAX	W 23–17	3	1.0

2013 game log (16 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2013-09-09	@ LAC	W 31–28	5	1.0
2	2013-09-15	vs TEN	W 30–24 OT	3	0.0
3	2013-09-22	@ BAL	L 9–30	5	0.0
4	2013-09-29	vs SEA	L 20–23 OT	6	2.5
5	2013-10-06	@ SF	L 3–34	3	1.0
6	2013-10-13	vs LA	L 13–38	3	0.0
7	2013-10-20	@ KC	L 16–17	2	0.0
9	2013-11-03	vs IND	L 24–27	1	0.0
10	2013-11-10	@ ARI	L 24–27	1	0.0
11	2013-11-17	vs LV	L 23–28	2	0.0
12	2013-11-24	vs JAX	L 6–13	6	1.0
13	2013-12-01	vs NE	L 31–34	3	0.5
14	2013-12-05	@ JAX	L 20–27	2	0.0
15	2013-12-15	@ IND	L 3–25	2	0.0
16	2013-12-22	vs DEN	L 13–37	2	1.0
17	2013-12-29	@ TEN	L 10–16	1	0.0

2012 game log (15 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2012-09-16	@ JAX	W 27–7	1	0.0	0
3	2012-09-23	@ DEN	W 31–25	2	0.0	0
4	2012-09-30	vs TEN	W 38–14	1	0.0	0
5	2012-10-08	@ NYJ	W 23–17	1	0.0	0
6	2012-10-14	vs GB	L 24–42	1	0.0	0
7	2012-10-21	vs BAL	W 43–13	3	1.0	1
9	2012-11-04	vs BUF	W 21–9	3	2.0	0
10	2012-11-11	@ CHI	W 13–6	1	0.0	0
12	2012-11-22	@ DET	W 34–31 OT	4	0.0	0
13	2012-12-02	@ TEN	W 24–10	2	2.0	0
14	2012-12-10	@ NE	L 14–42	3	1.0	0
15	2012-12-16	vs IND	W 29–17	1	0.0	0
16	2012-12-23	vs MIN	L 6–23	1	0.0	0
17	2012-12-30	@ IND	L 16–28	1	0.0	0
P19	2013-01-13	@ NE	L 28–41	2	0.0	0