Zaire Franklin

OLB · IND/GB · 2018–2026

Born July 2, 1996 · College Syracuse · Drafted 2018, round 7, pick 235 (IND) · 6-0, 235 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2024) · Pro Bowl (2024)

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
2018	IND	9	29	0.0	0	0	0	1	0
2019	IND	5	6	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	IND	10	19	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2020 playoffs	IND	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	IND	16	40	0.0	0	1	1	2	0
2022	IND	17	167	3.0	6	12	0	6	3
2023	IND	16	179	1.5	3	3	0	6	2
2024	IND	17	173	3.5	4	11	2	6	5
2025	IND	17	125	2.0	6	7	0	5	1
2026	GB	6	41	0.0	2	2	0	1	1
Career	GB	113	779	10.0	21	36	3	27	12

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
2024	2nd-team All-Pro, 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
2018	IND	11	–	–	170	23.6
2018 playoffs	IND	2	–	–	17	11.2
2019	IND	2	–	–	2	1.5
2020	IND	9	–	–	82	13.7
2021	IND	17	–	–	194	18.1
2022	IND	17	–	–	1,112	99.6
2023	IND	16	2	1.5	1,074	98.8
2024	IND	17	–	–	1,134	100.0
2025	IND	17	–	–	1,093	95.5

Game logs

2026 game log (6 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2026-09-13	@ MIN	L 22–39	4	0
2	2026-09-20	@ NYJ	W 20–17 OT	7	0
3	2026-09-24	vs ATL	L 14–35	10	0
4	2026-10-04	@ TB	W 17–14	8	0
5	2026-10-11	vs CHI	W 31–7	9	1
6	2026-10-18	vs DAL	W 23–13	3	0

2025 game log (17 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2025-09-07	vs MIA	W 33–8	4	0.0	0
2	2025-09-14	vs DEN	W 29–28	5	0.0	1
3	2025-09-21	@ TEN	W 41–20	6	0.0	1
4	2025-09-28	@ LA	L 20–27	7	0.0	1
5	2025-10-05	vs LV	W 40–6	6	1.0	0
6	2025-10-12	vs ARI	W 31–27	9	0.0	0
7	2025-10-19	@ LAC	W 38–24	5	0.0	1
8	2025-10-26	vs TEN	W 38–14	2	0.0	0
9	2025-11-02	@ PIT	L 20–27	6	0.0	0
10	2025-11-09	vs ATL	W 31–25 OT	10	1.0	0
12	2025-11-23	@ KC	L 20–23 OT	14	0.0	0
13	2025-11-30	vs HOU	L 16–20	13	0.0	0
14	2025-12-07	@ JAX	L 19–36	7	0.0	0
15	2025-12-14	@ SEA	L 16–18	10	0.0	0
16	2025-12-22	vs SF	L 27–48	4	0.0	1
17	2025-12-28	vs JAX	L 17–23	5	0.0	0
18	2026-01-04	@ HOU	L 30–38	12	0.0	0

2024 game log (17 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2024-09-08	vs HOU	L 27–29	8	0.0	0	0
2	2024-09-15	@ GB	L 10–16	10	0.0	0	0
3	2024-09-22	vs CHI	W 21–16	14	0.0	0	0
4	2024-09-29	vs PIT	W 27–24	9	0.0	0	0
5	2024-10-06	@ JAX	L 34–37	10	0.0	0	1
6	2024-10-13	@ TEN	W 20–17	9	0.0	0	0
7	2024-10-20	vs MIA	W 16–10	16	0.0	0	0
8	2024-10-27	@ HOU	L 20–23	11	0.0	0	0
9	2024-11-03	@ MIN	L 13–21	9	0.0	1	1
10	2024-11-10	vs BUF	L 20–30	9	0.0	0	1
11	2024-11-17	@ NYJ	W 28–27	5	0.0	0	0
12	2024-11-24	vs DET	L 6–24	13	1.0	0	0
13	2024-12-01	@ NE	W 25–24	12	1.5	0	1
15	2024-12-15	@ DEN	L 13–31	9	0.0	1	1
16	2024-12-22	vs TEN	W 38–30	7	0.0	0	0
17	2024-12-29	@ NYG	L 33–45	14	0.0	0	0
18	2025-01-05	vs JAX	W 26–23 OT	8	1.0	0	1

2023 game log (16 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2023-09-10	vs JAX	L 21–31	17	0.0	1
2	2023-09-17	@ HOU	W 31–20	13	0.0	0
3	2023-09-24	@ BAL	W 22–19 OT	15	1.0	0
4	2023-10-01	vs LA	L 23–29 OT	12	0.5	0
5	2023-10-08	vs TEN	W 23–16	12	0.0	1
6	2023-10-15	@ JAX	L 20–37	8	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	vs CLE	L 38–39	11	0.0	0
8	2023-10-29	vs NO	L 27–38	14	0.0	1
10	2023-11-12	@ NE	W 10–6	15	0.0	0
12	2023-11-26	vs TB	W 27–20	7	0.0	0
13	2023-12-03	@ TEN	W 31–28 OT	6	0.0	0
14	2023-12-10	@ CIN	L 14–34	14	0.0	0
15	2023-12-16	vs PIT	W 30–13	5	0.0	1
16	2023-12-24	@ ATL	L 10–29	11	0.0	1
17	2023-12-31	vs LV	W 23–20	10	0.0	1
18	2024-01-06	vs HOU	L 19–23	9	0.0	0

2022 game log (17 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	PD
1	2022-09-11	@ HOU	T 20–20 OT	8	0.0	0
2	2022-09-18	@ JAX	L 0–24	10	0.0	0
3	2022-09-25	vs KC	W 20–17	12	0.0	1
4	2022-10-02	vs TEN	L 17–24	15	0.0	0
5	2022-10-06	@ DEN	W 12–9 OT	9	0.0	1
6	2022-10-16	vs JAX	W 34–27	12	0.0	0
7	2022-10-23	@ TEN	L 10–19	7	0.0	0
8	2022-10-30	vs WAS	L 16–17	8	0.0	1
9	2022-11-06	@ NE	L 3–26	6	0.5	0
10	2022-11-13	@ LV	W 25–20	10	0.0	0
11	2022-11-20	vs PHI	L 16–17	13	0.5	0
12	2022-11-28	vs PIT	L 17–24	11	0.0	0
13	2022-12-04	@ DAL	L 19–54	10	0.0	1
15	2022-12-17	@ MIN	L 36–39 OT	10	0.0	0
16	2022-12-26	vs LAC	L 3–20	9	1.0	0
17	2023-01-01	@ NYG	L 10–38	10	0.0	2
18	2023-01-08	vs HOU	L 31–32	7	1.0	0

2021 game log (16 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2021-09-12	vs SEA	L 16–28	1	0	0
3	2021-09-26	@ TEN	L 16–25	2	0	0
4	2021-10-03	@ MIA	W 27–17	3	0	0
5	2021-10-11	@ BAL	L 25–31 OT	1	0	0
6	2021-10-17	vs HOU	W 31–3	2	0	0
7	2021-10-24	@ SF	W 30–18	5	0	0
8	2021-10-31	vs TEN	L 31–34 OT	3	0	0
9	2021-11-04	vs NYJ	W 45–30	0	0	1
10	2021-11-14	vs JAX	W 23–17	1	0	0
11	2021-11-21	@ BUF	W 41–15	3	1	1
12	2021-11-28	vs TB	L 31–38	3	0	0
13	2021-12-05	@ HOU	W 31–0	3	0	0
15	2021-12-18	vs NE	W 27–17	2	0	0
16	2021-12-25	@ ARI	W 22–16	3	0	0
17	2022-01-02	vs LV	L 20–23	5	0	0
18	2022-01-09	@ JAX	L 11–26	3	0	0

2020 game log (11 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
1	2020-09-13	@ JAX	L 20–27	1
2	2020-09-20	vs MIN	W 28–11	1
3	2020-09-27	vs NYJ	W 36–7	1
5	2020-10-11	@ CLE	L 23–32	7
9	2020-11-08	vs BAL	L 10–24	1
11	2020-11-22	vs GB	W 34–31 OT	1
12	2020-11-29	vs TEN	L 26–45	3
13	2020-12-06	@ HOU	W 26–20	2
15	2020-12-20	vs HOU	W 27–20	1
17	2021-01-03	vs JAX	W 28–14	1
P18	2021-01-09	@ BUF	L 24–27	1

2019 game log (5 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
4	2019-09-29	vs LV	L 24–31	1
5	2019-10-06	@ KC	W 19–13	1
11	2019-11-17	vs JAX	W 33–13	1
16	2019-12-22	vs CAR	W 38–6	1
17	2019-12-29	@ JAX	L 20–38	2

2018 game log (9 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2018-09-09	vs CIN	L 23–34	1	0
2	2018-09-16	@ WAS	W 21–9	1	0
3	2018-09-23	@ PHI	L 16–20	3	0
5	2018-10-04	@ NE	L 24–38	11	0
6	2018-10-14	@ NYJ	L 34–42	1	0
8	2018-10-28	@ LV	W 42–28	2	1
14	2018-12-09	@ HOU	W 24–21	1	0
16	2018-12-23	vs NYG	W 28–27	6	0
17	2018-12-30	@ TEN	W 33–17	3	0