Kenny Clark

10 seasons (9 in Green Bay), 43.0 sacks from the interior — and 89 QB hits.

Clark was Green Bay's first-round nose tackle in 2016 (27th overall) and stayed exactly one decade — until the Packers traded him to Dallas at the 2025 deadline for a 1st-round pick swap. His Packers ledger: 9 seasons, 41 sacks, 80 QB hits, 67 TFLs from a position that traditionally generates none of those.

2023 peak: 8.0 sacks and 18 QB hits — career-high pressure year at age 28.

At age 28 in his 8th season, Clark posted his most disruptive year: 8 sacks, 18 QB hits, 10 TFLs — all career highs. The QB-hits total in particular was elite for an interior lineman, and it earned him his third Pro Bowl nod.

The 2024 collapse (1.0 sack, 5 QB hits) is what made Green Bay willing to listen to trade offers. Whether that was scheme, double-teams, or age is the live question for Dallas.

3.0 sacks in 9 games as a Cowboy — already 3x his 2024 total.

Through his first 9 games in Dallas, Clark has 3.0 sacks and 9 QB hits — already triple his entire 2024 output in fewer than half the games.

The Cowboys' defensive front rotation (Clark + Osa Odighizuwa + Mazi Smith) has produced one of his more disruptive splits since 2023: 6 TFLs in 9 games projects to ~12 over a full season, which would be a career high.

15 QB hits in 2021 — and only 5 sacks. The unluckiest pressure-to-sack year of his career.

In 2021, Clark generated 15 QB hits — top-3 among interior DTs that season — but converted just 5 of them into sacks, a ratio of 3.0 hits per sack.

By contrast, in 2023 his ratio was 2.25 (18 hits, 8 sacks) — much closer to expected. The 2021 line is the pure 'should have been a 7-sack year' splits diagnostic: same pressure, worse luck on the takedown.

43.0 career sacks — most by a DT drafted in 2016. More than Sheldon Rankins (37.5) and Robert Nkemdiche (5.0).

The 2016 first-round DT class had four picks: Nkemdiche (29th), Rankins (12th), Andrew Billings (122nd, R4), and Clark (27th). A decade later, Clark's 43.0 career sacks lead the pack — Rankins is at 37.5, Billings under 10, Nkemdiche washed out of the league.

Clark is the last man standing as a productive starter from that class's interior haul, and his trade to Dallas resets the clock on the back half of his career.

3-time Pro Bowler (2019, 2021, 2023) — only 5 interior DTs hit 3+ Pro Bowls in the last decade.

Pro Bowl recognition for nose tackles and interior DTs is rare — the position's production is hidden by double-teams and run-defense duties. Clark's 3 Pro Bowls (2019, 2021, 2023) put him in a small club with Aaron Donald, Chris Jones, Cameron Heyward, and DeForest Buckner across the 2016-2025 window.

At 30 years old in his first Dallas season, the question is whether 2025 (3.0 sacks in 9 games) points to a 4th Pro Bowl or a sunset year.