Player
Leonard Floyd
DL/EDGE · 49ers
Leonard Floyd: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
75.0 career sacks across 10 seasons and 5 teams — the journeyman rusher who never stopped producing.
TrendFloyd by season (regular season)
| Season | Team | Sacks | QB Hits | TFL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | CHI | 7.0 | 9 | 6 |
| 2017 | CHI | 4.5 | 12 | 8 |
| 2018 | CHI | 5.0 | 13 | 10 |
| 2019 | CHI | 3.0 | 12 | 3 |
| 2020 | LA | 12.5 | 22 | 13 |
| 2021 | LA | 11.5 | 20 | 9 |
| 2022 | LA | 9.0 | 22 | 10 |
| 2023 | BUF | 10.5 | 20 | 9 |
| 2024 | SF | 8.5 | 16 | 8 |
| 2025 | ATL | 3.5 | 11 | 5 |
Floyd's career splits cleanly in two. The Chicago years (2016-2019) were promise-without-reward: a 9th overall pick averaging 4.9 sacks a year. Then the Rams hit (2020-2022) turned him into a legit double-digit threat — 33.0 sacks over three years alongside Aaron Donald. He hasn't missed the 8+ sack mark in a single season since leaving Chicago through 2024.
Sacks per season
| Season | Sacks |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 12.5 |
| 2021 | 11.5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 3.5 |
Pre-LA: 19.5 sacks in 4 years. Post-LA arrival: 55.5 sacks in 6 years.
SplitCareer split — pre-Rams vs post-Rams
| Era | Seasons | Sacks | QB Hits | Sacks/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bears (2016-2019) | 4 | 19.5 | 46 | 4.9 |
| LA + after (2020-2025) | 6 | 55.5 | 111 | 9.3 |
The transformation in LA was complete and durable. Floyd nearly doubled his sacks-per-year rate the moment he arrived in the Rams' scheme, and that production followed him through three more team changes — Buffalo (10.5), San Francisco (8.5), and Atlanta. Scheme fit + the Donald gravity well changed his career.
Peak season: 2020 LA — 12.5 sacks, 22 QB hits, 13 TFL, Super Bowl appearance in year two.
MilestoneFloyd's signature season was 2020 with the Rams — 12.5 sacks, 22 QB hits, and 13 tackles for loss, all career highs. He followed it with 11.5 sacks in 2021, the year LA won Super Bowl LVI. His 22 QB hits in 2020 and 2022 tied for the most in any of his seasons.
The consistency under different DCs is the story: Vic Fangio's Bears, Brandon Staley's Rams, Raheem Morris's Rams, Sean McDermott's Bills, Robert Saleh's 49ers — five distinct defensive systems, never below 8.5 sacks from 2020 through 2024.
75.0 career sacks — 12th-most among any pass rusher since 2016.
ComparisonTop 15 sack leaders since 2016
| Player | Sacks |
|---|---|
| Myles Garrett | 126.5 |
| Danielle Hunter | 116.0 |
| T.J. Watt | 116.0 |
| Khalil Mack | 97.0 |
| Aaron Donald | 97.0 |
| Cameron Jordan | 96.0 |
| Chris Jones | 91.0 |
| Trey Hendrickson | 85.5 |
| Von Miller | 82.5 |
| Joey Bosa | 79.0 |
| Chandler Jones | 76.0 |
| Leonard Floyd | 75.0 |
| Nick Bosa | 74.5 |
| DeForest Buckner | 74.0 |
| Matthew Judon | 73.0 |
In the modern pass-rush era — the decade since 2016 — only 11 players have more sacks than Floyd. He's ahead of Nick Bosa, DeForest Buckner, and Matthew Judon despite being a higher-mileage player on more teams. The names ahead of him are nearly all Pro Bowl/All-Pro mainstays; Floyd has stayed in their statistical neighborhood without the same accolades.
5 teams in 10 years, double-digit sacks possible on every contender — the league's most-traded productive edge.
AnomalyFloyd's team tour
| Years | Team | Sacks |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-2019 | CHI | 19.5 |
| 2020-2022 | LA | 33.0 |
| 2023 | BUF | 10.5 |
| 2024 | SF | 8.5 |
| 2025 | ATL | 3.5 |
Floyd has been the league's most-recyclable productive edge — five organizations over a decade, and every team that signed him in free agency got at least 8.5 sacks out of him (Atlanta 2025 in progress at 3.5). The contracts have been short — one and two-year deals — but the production has been almost mechanical: plug him in, get ~10 sacks, move on.
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