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Willie McGinest OLB · NE /CLE · 1999–2008
Born December 11, 1971 · College USC · Drafted 1994 , round 1, pick 4 (NE) · 6-5, 270 lb
Pro Bowl (2003)
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 INT Passes Forced
1999 NE 16 76 9.0 – – 0 – 1 2000 NE 13 63 6.0 – – 0 – 1 2001 NE 10 33 6.0 – – 0 – 1 2001 playoffs NE 3 11 2.0 – – 0 – 0 2002 NE 16 63 5.5 – – 1 – 0 2003 NE 14 64 5.0 – – 1 – 2 2003 playoffs NE 3 15 4.0 – – 0 – 0 2004 NE 16 50 9.0 – – 1 – 2 2004 playoffs NE 3 7 0.0 – – 0 – 0 2005 NE 16 56 5.5 – – 0 – 0 2005 playoffs NE 2 14 4.5 – – 0 – 0 2006 CLE 14 46 5.0 10 – 1 – 0 2007 CLE 13 30 2.5 4 – 0 – 0 2008 CLE 14 56 1.0 7 – 0 – 0 Career CLE 142 537 54.5 47 56 4 37 7
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
2003 Pro Bowl
Game logs 2008 game log (14 games) 2008 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2008-09-07 vs DAL L 10–28 3 0.0 0 0 2 2008-09-14 vs PIT L 6–10 1 0.0 0 0 6 2008-10-13 vs NYG W 35–14 1 0.0 0 0 7 2008-10-19 @ WAS L 11–14 4 0.0 0 0 8 2008-10-26 @ JAX W 23–17 1 0.0 0 0 9 2008-11-02 vs BAL L 27–37 4 0.0 0 0 10 2008-11-06 vs DEN L 30–34 7 0.0 0 1 11 2008-11-17 @ BUF W 29–27 5 0.0 0 0 12 2008-11-23 vs HOU L 6–16 7 0.0 0 0 13 2008-11-30 vs IND L 6–10 4 0.0 0 0 14 2008-12-07 @ TEN L 9–28 1 0.0 0 0 15 2008-12-15 @ PHI L 10–30 9 1.0 0 0 16 2008-12-21 vs CIN L 0–14 5 0.0 0 1 17 2008-12-28 @ PIT L 0–31 4 0.0 0 0
2007 game log (13 games) 2007 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
4 2007-09-30 vs BAL W 27–13 1 0.0 0 0 5 2007-10-07 @ NE L 17–34 2 0.0 0 0 6 2007-10-14 vs MIA W 41–31 3 0.0 0 0 8 2007-10-28 @ LA W 27–20 3 0.0 0 3 9 2007-11-04 vs SEA W 33–30 OT 2 0.0 0 0 10 2007-11-11 @ PIT L 28–31 2 0.0 0 0 11 2007-11-18 @ BAL W 33–30 OT 2 0.5 0 0 12 2007-11-25 vs HOU W 27–17 3 0.0 0 1 13 2007-12-02 @ ARI L 21–27 2 0.0 0 1 14 2007-12-09 @ NYJ W 24–18 1 0.0 0 0 15 2007-12-16 vs BUF W 8–0 1 0.0 0 0 16 2007-12-23 @ CIN L 14–19 3 0.0 0 0 17 2007-12-30 vs SF W 20–7 5 2.0 0 0
2006 game log (14 games) 2006 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2006-09-10 vs NO L 14–19 4 0.0 0 0 3 2006-09-24 vs BAL L 14–15 3 1.0 0 1 4 2006-10-01 @ LV W 24–21 2 0.0 0 0 5 2006-10-08 @ CAR L 12–20 2 1.0 0 0 7 2006-10-22 vs DEN L 7–17 2 0.0 0 0 8 2006-10-29 vs NYJ W 20–13 1 0.0 0 0 10 2006-11-12 @ ATL W 17–13 2 0.0 0 0 11 2006-11-19 vs PIT L 20–24 5 1.0 1 1 12 2006-11-26 vs CIN L 0–30 2 2.0 0 0 13 2006-12-03 vs KC W 31–28 OT 9 0.0 0 0 14 2006-12-07 @ PIT L 7–27 8 0.0 0 0 15 2006-12-17 @ BAL L 17–27 2 0.0 0 0 16 2006-12-24 vs TB L 7–22 2 0.0 0 0 17 2006-12-31 @ HOU L 6–14 2 0.0 0 0
2005 game log (18 games) 2005 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2005-09-08 vs LV W 30–20 2 0.0 0 0 2 2005-09-18 @ CAR L 17–27 3 0.0 0 0 3 2005-09-25 @ PIT W 23–20 4 1.0 0 1 4 2005-10-02 vs LAC L 17–41 4 0.0 0 1 5 2005-10-09 @ ATL W 31–28 5 1.0 0 0 6 2005-10-16 @ DEN L 20–28 5 0.5 0 0 8 2005-10-30 vs BUF W 21–16 5 0.0 0 0 9 2005-11-07 vs IND L 21–40 5 0.0 0 0 10 2005-11-13 @ MIA W 23–16 2 0.0 0 1 11 2005-11-20 vs NO W 24–17 5 1.0 0 2 12 2005-11-27 @ KC L 16–26 4 0.0 0 0 13 2005-12-04 vs NYJ W 16–3 3 0.0 0 0 14 2005-12-11 @ BUF W 35–7 1 0.0 0 0 15 2005-12-17 vs TB W 28–0 6 2.0 0 0 16 2005-12-26 @ NYJ W 31–21 1 0.0 0 0 17 2006-01-01 vs MIA L 26–28 1 0.0 0 0 P18 2006-01-07 vs JAX W 28–3 8 4.5 0 0 P19 2006-01-14 @ DEN L 13–27 6 0.0 0 0
2004 game log (19 games) 2004 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2004-09-09 vs IND W 27–24 6 1.0 0 0 2 2004-09-19 @ ARI W 23–12 4 2.0 0 2 4 2004-10-03 @ BUF W 31–17 1 0.0 0 1 5 2004-10-10 vs MIA W 24–10 2 0.0 0 0 6 2004-10-17 vs SEA W 30–20 2 0.0 1 1 7 2004-10-24 vs NYJ W 13–7 1 0.0 0 0 8 2004-10-31 @ PIT L 20–34 1 0.0 0 0 9 2004-11-07 @ LA W 40–22 2 1.0 0 1 10 2004-11-14 vs BUF W 29–6 4 1.0 0 0 11 2004-11-22 @ KC W 27–19 3 1.0 0 0 12 2004-11-28 vs BAL W 24–3 1 0.0 0 0 13 2004-12-05 @ CLE W 42–15 4 1.0 0 0 14 2004-12-12 vs CIN W 35–28 6 0.0 0 0 15 2004-12-20 @ MIA L 28–29 6 1.0 0 1 16 2004-12-26 @ NYJ W 23–7 3 0.0 0 0 17 2005-01-02 vs SF W 21–7 4 1.0 0 0 P19 2005-01-16 vs IND W 20–3 2 0.0 0 2 P20 2005-01-23 @ PIT W 41–27 3 0.0 0 0 P21 2005-02-06 @ PHI W 24–21 2 0.0 0 0
2003 game log (17 games) 2003 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2003-09-07 @ BUF L 0–31 2 0.0 0 0 2 2003-09-14 @ PHI W 31–10 2 2.0 0 0 3 2003-09-21 vs NYJ W 23–16 5 0.0 0 0 4 2003-09-28 @ WAS L 17–20 4 1.0 0 0 6 2003-10-12 vs NYG W 17–6 8 0.0 0 0 8 2003-10-26 vs CLE W 9–3 2 0.0 0 0 9 2003-11-03 @ DEN W 30–26 6 0.0 0 0 11 2003-11-16 vs DAL W 12–0 6 0.0 0 0 12 2003-11-23 @ HOU W 23–20 OT 8 0.0 0 1 13 2003-11-30 @ IND W 38–34 4 0.0 0 0 14 2003-12-07 vs MIA W 12–0 2 1.0 0 1 15 2003-12-14 vs JAX W 27–13 3 0.0 0 1 16 2003-12-20 @ NYJ W 21–16 10 1.0 1 1 17 2003-12-27 vs BUF W 31–0 2 0.0 0 0 P19 2004-01-10 vs TEN W 17–14 7 2.0 0 0 P20 2004-01-18 vs IND W 24–14 4 1.0 0 0 P21 2004-02-01 vs CAR W 32–29 4 1.0 0 1
2002 game log (16 games) 2002 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2002-09-09 vs PIT W 30–14 6 1.0 0 1 2 2002-09-15 @ NYJ W 44–7 3 1.0 0 3 3 2002-09-22 vs KC W 41–38 OT 4 0.0 0 0 4 2002-09-29 @ LAC L 14–21 2 0.0 0 0 5 2002-10-06 @ MIA L 13–26 6 0.0 0 0 6 2002-10-13 vs GB L 10–28 2 0.0 0 1 8 2002-10-27 vs DEN L 16–24 8 1.0 0 0 9 2002-11-03 @ BUF W 38–7 6 1.5 0 0 10 2002-11-10 @ CHI W 33–30 6 0.0 0 1 11 2002-11-17 @ LV L 20–27 2 0.0 0 0 12 2002-11-24 vs MIN W 24–17 3 0.0 0 1 13 2002-11-28 @ DET W 20–12 0 0.0 1 2 14 2002-12-08 vs BUF W 27–17 7 0.0 0 0 15 2002-12-16 @ TEN L 7–24 1 0.0 0 1 16 2002-12-22 vs NYJ L 17–30 3 0.0 0 0 17 2002-12-29 vs MIA W 27–24 OT 4 1.0 0 0
2001 game log (13 games) 2001 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
3 2001-09-30 vs IND W 44–13 2 0.0 0 0 5 2001-10-14 vs LAC W 29–26 OT 3 0.0 0 0 6 2001-10-21 @ IND W 38–17 1 0.0 0 0 7 2001-10-28 @ DEN L 20–31 5 2.0 0 1 8 2001-11-04 @ ATL W 24–10 5 2.0 0 0 9 2001-11-11 vs BUF W 21–11 5 0.0 0 0 10 2001-11-18 vs LA L 17–24 3 0.0 0 1 11 2001-11-25 vs NO W 34–17 4 0.0 0 0 15 2001-12-22 vs MIA W 20–13 1 0.0 0 0 17 2002-01-06 @ CAR W 38–6 4 2.0 0 0 P19 2002-01-19 vs LV W 16–13 OT 1 0.0 0 0 P20 2002-01-27 @ PIT W 24–17 6 1.0 0 1 P21 2002-02-03 vs LA W 20–17 4 1.0 0 0
2000 game log (13 games) 2000 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 2000-09-03 vs TB L 16–21 8 1.0 0 0 2 2000-09-11 @ NYJ L 19–20 2 0.0 0 0 3 2000-09-17 vs MIN L 13–21 5 0.0 0 0 5 2000-10-01 @ DEN W 28–19 5 1.0 0 1 6 2000-10-08 vs IND W 24–16 2 0.0 0 0 7 2000-10-15 vs NYJ L 17–34 6 1.0 0 0 10 2000-11-05 vs BUF L 13–16 OT 6 0.0 0 0 12 2000-11-19 vs CIN W 16–13 4 0.0 0 0 13 2000-11-23 @ DET L 9–34 3 0.0 0 0 14 2000-12-04 vs KC W 30–24 5 0.0 0 0 15 2000-12-10 @ CHI L 17–24 8 0.0 0 0 16 2000-12-17 @ BUF W 13–10 OT 4 2.0 0 0 17 2000-12-24 vs MIA L 24–27 5 1.0 0 0
1999 game log (16 games) 1999 game log Week Date Opponent Result Tackles Sacks INT PD
1 1999-09-12 @ NYJ W 30–28 6 2.0 0 0 2 1999-09-19 vs IND W 31–28 4 0.0 0 0 3 1999-09-26 vs NYG W 16–14 7 0.0 0 0 4 1999-10-03 @ CLE W 19–7 2 1.0 0 0 5 1999-10-10 @ KC L 14–16 5 0.0 0 0 6 1999-10-17 vs MIA L 30–31 5 1.5 0 0 7 1999-10-24 vs DEN W 24–23 5 1.0 0 0 8 1999-10-31 @ ARI W 27–3 6 0.5 0 0 10 1999-11-15 vs NYJ L 17–24 6 0.0 0 0 11 1999-11-21 @ MIA L 17–27 3 1.0 0 0 12 1999-11-28 @ BUF L 7–17 4 0.0 0 0 13 1999-12-05 vs DAL W 13–6 3 1.0 0 0 14 1999-12-12 @ IND L 15–20 2 0.0 0 0 15 1999-12-19 @ PHI L 9–24 8 0.0 0 0 16 1999-12-26 vs BUF L 10–13 OT 6 0.0 0 0 17 2000-01-02 vs BAL W 20–3 4 1.0 0 0
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