Za'Darius Smith

DE · BAL/GB/MIN/CLE/DET/PHI/ATL · 2015–2026

Born September 8, 1992 · College Kentucky; East Mississippi JC · Drafted 2015, round 4, pick 122 (BAL) · 6-4, 270 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2020) · Pro Bowl ×3 (2019, 2020, 2022)

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	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2015	BAL	14	30	5.5	7	7	1	0
2016	BAL	10	19	1.0	4	4	1	1
2017	BAL	13	24	3.5	16	3	1	1
2018	BAL	16	44	8.5	25	10	2	1
2018 playoffs	BAL	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
2019	GB	15	55	13.5	37	17	0	1
2019 playoffs	GB	2	7	2.0	4	1	0	0
2020	GB	16	52	12.5	23	12	2	4
2020 playoffs	GB	2	5	1.0	2	1	0	0
2021	GB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
2021 playoffs	GB	1	1	1.0	1	1	0	0
2022	MIN	16	44	10.0	24	15	5	1
2022 playoffs	MIN	1	3	0.0	0	1	0	0
2023	CLE	16	27	5.5	20	8	3	1
2023 playoffs	CLE	1	1	0.0	1	0	0	0
2024	CLE	16	35	9.0	17	9	1	0
2024 playoffs	DET	1	0	0.0	0	0	1	0
2025	PHI	4	10	1.5	3	2	0	0
2026	ATL	6	10	4.5	6	6	1	0
Career	ATL	143	351	75.0	182	93	17	10

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
2019	Pro Bowl
2020	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2022	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	BAL	13	–	–	484	60.3
2017	BAL	14	–	–	526	57.0
2018	BAL	16	–	–	686	67.0
2018 playoffs	BAL	1	–	–	49	73.1
2019	GB	16	–	–	861	83.8
2019 playoffs	GB	2	–	–	102	92.7
2020	GB	16	–	–	852	83.8
2020 playoffs	GB	2	–	–	98	86.7
2021	GB	1	–	–	18	30.0
2021 playoffs	GB	1	–	–	19	35.2
2022	MIN	16	–	–	760	69.3
2022 playoffs	MIN	1	–	–	48	70.6
2023	CLE	16	–	–	573	58.9
2023 playoffs	CLE	1	–	–	23	53.5
2024	CLE/DET	17	–	–	607	59.7
2024 playoffs	DET	1	–	–	40	55.6
2025	PHI	5	–	–	130	38.7

Game logs

2026 game log (6 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2026-09-13	@ PIT	L 13–20	3	2.0	0
2	2026-09-20	vs CAR	L 3–34	2	0.5	1
3	2026-09-24	@ GB	W 35–14	1	0.0	0
6	2026-10-18	vs CHI	L 23–31	1	1.0	0
7	2026-10-25	vs SF	W 29–20	1	1.0	0
9	2026-11-08	vs CIN	L 17–34	2	0.0	0

2025 game log (4 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
2	2025-09-14	@ KC	W 20–17	4	0.5
4	2025-09-28	@ TB	W 31–25	2	0.0
5	2025-10-05	vs DEN	L 17–21	3	1.0
6	2025-10-09	@ NYG	L 17–34	1	0.0

2024 game log (17 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2024-09-08	vs DAL	L 17–33	3	1.0	0
3	2024-09-22	vs NYG	L 15–21	4	1.0	0
4	2024-09-29	@ LV	L 16–20	3	0.0	0
5	2024-10-06	@ WAS	L 13–34	3	1.0	0
6	2024-10-13	@ PHI	L 16–20	3	0.0	0
7	2024-10-20	vs CIN	L 14–21	2	1.0	0
8	2024-10-27	vs BAL	W 29–24	4	1.0	0
9	2024-11-03	vs LAC	L 10–27	1	0.0	0
11	2024-11-17	vs JAX	W 52–6	1	0.5	0
12	2024-11-24	@ IND	W 24–6	1	0.0	0
13	2024-11-28	vs CHI	W 23–20	3	1.5	0
14	2024-12-05	vs GB	W 34–31	2	1.0	0
15	2024-12-15	vs BUF	L 42–48	1	0.0	0
16	2024-12-22	@ CHI	W 34–17	1	0.0	0
17	2024-12-30	@ SF	W 40–34	0	0.0	0
18	2025-01-05	vs MIN	W 31–9	3	1.0	1
P20	2025-01-18	vs WAS	L 31–45	0	0.0	1

2023 game log (17 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs CIN	W 24–3	2	0.0	1
2	2023-09-18	@ PIT	L 22–26	1	0.0	0
3	2023-09-24	vs TEN	W 27–3	2	0.0	0
4	2023-10-01	vs BAL	L 3–28	1	0.0	0
6	2023-10-15	vs SF	W 19–17	0	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	@ IND	W 39–38	4	1.0	0
8	2023-10-29	@ SEA	L 20–24	1	0.0	0
9	2023-11-05	vs ARI	W 27–0	3	1.0	0
10	2023-11-12	@ BAL	W 33–31	4	0.5	0
11	2023-11-19	vs PIT	W 13–10	2	0.0	0
12	2023-11-26	@ DEN	L 12–29	1	0.0	0
13	2023-12-03	@ LA	L 19–36	1	0.0	0
14	2023-12-10	vs JAX	W 31–27	1	1.0	1
15	2023-12-17	vs CHI	W 20–17	1	0.0	0
16	2023-12-24	@ HOU	W 36–22	2	2.0	1
17	2023-12-28	vs NYJ	W 37–20	1	0.0	0
P19	2024-01-13	@ HOU	L 14–45	1	0.0	0

2022 game log (17 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2022-09-11	vs GB	W 23–7	2	1.0	0
2	2022-09-19	@ PHI	L 7–24	3	1.0	0
3	2022-09-25	vs DET	W 28–24	3	0.0	0
4	2022-10-02	@ NO	W 28–25	1	1.0	0
5	2022-10-09	vs CHI	W 29–22	2	0.5	0
6	2022-10-16	@ MIA	W 24–16	4	2.0	0
8	2022-10-30	vs ARI	W 34–26	7	3.0	1
9	2022-11-06	@ WAS	W 20–17	5	0.0	2
10	2022-11-13	@ BUF	W 33–30 OT	2	1.0	1
11	2022-11-20	vs DAL	L 3–40	1	0.0	0
12	2022-11-24	vs NE	W 33–26	3	0.0	0
13	2022-12-04	vs NYJ	W 27–22	2	0.0	1
14	2022-12-11	@ DET	L 23–34	1	0.0	0
15	2022-12-17	vs IND	W 39–36 OT	5	0.5	0
16	2022-12-24	vs NYG	W 27–24	0	0.0	0
17	2023-01-01	@ GB	L 17–41	3	0.0	0
P19	2023-01-15	vs NYG	L 24–31	3	0.0	0

2021 game log (2 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2021-09-12	@ NO	L 3–38	1	0.0	0	0
P20	2022-01-22	vs SF	L 10–13	1	1.0	0	0

2020 game log (18 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2020-09-13	@ MIN	W 43–34	2	1.0	0
2	2020-09-20	vs DET	W 42–21	4	1.0	0
3	2020-09-27	@ NO	W 37–30	2	0.0	0
4	2020-10-05	vs ATL	W 30–16	8	3.0	0
6	2020-10-18	@ TB	L 10–38	1	0.0	0
7	2020-10-25	@ HOU	W 35–20	3	1.0	0
8	2020-11-01	vs MIN	L 22–28	6	0.0	0
9	2020-11-05	@ SF	W 34–17	2	1.0	0
10	2020-11-15	vs JAX	W 24–20	6	1.0	0
11	2020-11-22	@ IND	L 31–34 OT	6	0.0	1
12	2020-11-29	vs CHI	W 41–25	2	1.0	0
13	2020-12-06	vs PHI	W 30–16	3	1.5	0
14	2020-12-13	@ DET	W 31–24	0	0.0	1
15	2020-12-19	vs CAR	W 24–16	3	1.0	0
16	2020-12-27	vs TEN	W 40–14	2	1.0	0
17	2021-01-03	@ CHI	W 35–16	2	0.0	0
P19	2021-01-16	vs LA	W 32–18	1	1.0	0
P20	2021-01-24	vs TB	L 26–31	4	0.0	0

2019 game log (17 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks
1	2019-09-05	@ CHI	W 10–3	3	1.0
2	2019-09-15	vs MIN	W 21–16	5	0.0
3	2019-09-22	vs DEN	W 27–16	3	2.0
5	2019-10-06	@ DAL	W 34–24	3	2.0
6	2019-10-14	vs DET	W 23–22	5	1.0
7	2019-10-20	vs LV	W 42–24	2	0.0
8	2019-10-27	@ KC	W 31–24	4	2.0
9	2019-11-03	@ LAC	L 11–26	7	0.5
10	2019-11-10	vs CAR	W 24–16	1	0.0
12	2019-11-24	@ SF	L 8–37	6	1.5
13	2019-12-01	@ NYG	W 31–13	4	0.0
14	2019-12-08	vs WAS	W 20–15	3	0.0
15	2019-12-15	vs CHI	W 21–13	1	0.0
16	2019-12-23	@ MIN	W 23–10	7	3.5
17	2019-12-29	@ DET	W 23–20	1	0.0
P19	2020-01-12	vs SEA	W 28–23	2	2.0
P20	2020-01-19	@ SF	L 20–37	5	0.0

2018 game log (17 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2018-09-09	vs BUF	W 47–3	5	1.0	0
2	2018-09-13	@ CIN	L 23–34	1	0.0	0
3	2018-09-23	vs DEN	W 27–14	2	1.0	0
4	2018-09-30	@ PIT	W 26–14	1	0.0	0
5	2018-10-07	@ CLE	L 9–12 OT	6	0.5	0
6	2018-10-14	@ TEN	W 21–0	4	3.0	0
7	2018-10-21	vs NO	L 23–24	2	0.0	0
8	2018-10-28	@ CAR	L 21–36	2	0.0	0
9	2018-11-04	vs PIT	L 16–23	4	0.0	1
11	2018-11-18	vs CIN	W 24–21	2	0.0	1
12	2018-11-25	vs LV	W 34–17	2	0.0	0
13	2018-12-02	@ ATL	W 26–16	1	1.0	0
14	2018-12-09	@ KC	L 24–27 OT	4	0.5	0
15	2018-12-16	vs TB	W 20–12	1	0.0	0
16	2018-12-22	@ LAC	W 22–10	5	1.5	0
17	2018-12-30	vs CLE	W 26–24	2	0.0	0
P18	2019-01-06	vs LAC	L 17–23	1	0.0	0

2017 game log (13 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2017-09-10	@ CIN	W 20–0	3	1.0	0
3	2017-09-24	@ JAX	L 7–44	0	0.0	0
4	2017-10-01	vs PIT	L 9–26	2	0.0	0
5	2017-10-08	@ LV	W 30–17	4	0.0	0
6	2017-10-15	vs CHI	L 24–27 OT	0	0.0	0
7	2017-10-22	@ MIN	L 16–24	1	0.0	0
8	2017-10-26	vs MIA	W 40–0	1	0.5	0
9	2017-11-05	@ TEN	L 20–23	2	0.0	0
11	2017-11-19	@ GB	W 23–0	2	0.0	0
12	2017-11-27	vs HOU	W 23–16	2	0.0	1
15	2017-12-17	@ CLE	W 27–10	1	1.0	0
16	2017-12-23	vs IND	W 23–16	4	1.0	0
17	2017-12-31	vs CIN	L 27–31	2	0.0	0

2016 game log (10 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2016-09-11	vs BUF	W 13–7	1	0.0	0
2	2016-09-18	@ CLE	W 25–20	2	0.0	0
3	2016-09-25	@ JAX	W 19–17	3	0.0	0
6	2016-10-16	@ NYG	L 23–27	2	0.0	0
7	2016-10-23	@ NYJ	L 16–24	3	0.0	1
9	2016-11-06	vs PIT	W 21–14	1	0.0	0
10	2016-11-10	vs CLE	W 28–7	2	1.0	0
11	2016-11-20	@ DAL	L 17–27	2	0.0	0
13	2016-12-04	vs MIA	W 38–6	0	0.0	0
17	2017-01-01	@ CIN	L 10–27	3	0.0	0

2015 game log (14 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
2	2015-09-20	@ LV	L 33–37	1	0.0	0
3	2015-09-27	vs CIN	L 24–28	1	0.0	0
4	2015-10-01	@ PIT	W 23–20 OT	4	2.0	0
5	2015-10-11	vs CLE	L 30–33 OT	4	0.0	0
6	2015-10-18	@ SF	L 20–25	2	0.0	0
7	2015-10-26	@ ARI	L 18–26	1	0.0	0
8	2015-11-01	vs LAC	W 29–26	1	0.0	0
10	2015-11-15	vs JAX	L 20–22	1	0.0	1
12	2015-11-30	@ CLE	W 33–27	1	0.0	0
13	2015-12-06	@ MIA	L 13–15	1	0.0	0
14	2015-12-13	vs SEA	L 6–35	4	0.0	0
15	2015-12-20	vs KC	L 14–34	4	2.0	0
16	2015-12-27	vs PIT	W 20–17	3	1.0	0
17	2016-01-03	@ CIN	L 16–24	2	0.5	0