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| Games | Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Age | Tm | Pos | No. | G | GS | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Sk | Comb | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sfty | AV |
| 2012 | 22 | HOU | 59 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 25 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | ||
| 2013 | 23 | HOU | ROLB | 59 | 16 | 16 | 7.0 | 47 | 33 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 2014 | 24 | HOU | ROLB | 59 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 50 | 31 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 7 | ||||||
| 2015 | 25 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 12.0 | 52 | 32 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 7 | |
| 2016 | 26 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 7.5 | 53 | 36 | 17 | 13 | 22 | 15 | |
| 2017 | 27 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 2018 | 28 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 39 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 14 | 5 | ||||||
| 2019 | 29 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 88 | 0 | 86 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 48 | 33 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 7 | |
| 2020 | 30 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 4 | |
| Career | 128 | 100 | 2 | 88 | 0 | 86 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 54.0 | 345 | 228 | 117 | 68 | 112 | 57 | |||||
| Games | Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Age | Tm | Pos | G | GS | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Sk | Comb | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sfty |
| 2012 | 22 | HOU | OLB | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 25 | HOU | SAM | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 26 | HOU | SAM | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| 2018 | 28 | HOU | OLB | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 29 | HOU | OLB | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Career | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 13 | ||||
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| Games | Off. | Def. | ST | |||||||||
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| Year | Age | Tm | Pos | No. | G | GS | Num | Pct | Num | Pct | Num | Pct |
| 2012 | 22 | HOU | 59 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 496 | 47% | 209 | 42% | |
| 2013 | 23 | HOU | ROLB | 59 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0% | 932 | 91% | 88 | 18% |
| 2014 | 24 | HOU | ROLB | 59 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 0% | 803 | 71% | 138 | 30% |
| 2015 | 25 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 0% | 740 | 71% | 149 | 31% |
| 2016 | 26 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0% | 869 | 86% | 98 | 22% |
| 2017 | 27 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 203 | 20% | 15 | 3% |
| 2018 | 28 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 0% | 785 | 73% | 64 | 14% |
| 2019 | 29 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0% | 951 | 88% | 1 | 0% |
| 2020 | 30 | HOU | LOLB | 59 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0% | 614 | 55% | 0 | 0% |
| Career | 0 | 6393 | 762 | |||||||||
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