Player
Geno Stone
S · Bengals
Geno Stone: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
2023 with Baltimore: 7 interceptions, second-most in the NFL — only DaRon Bland (9) had more.
Milestone2023 NFL interception leaders
| Player | Team | Pos | INTs |
|---|---|---|---|
| DaRon Bland | DAL | DB | 9 |
| Geno Stone | BAL | DB | 7 |
| Rasul Douglas | GB/BUF | DB | 6 |
| Charvarius Ward | SF | DB | 6 |
| Jessie Bates | ATL | DB | 6 |
| Fred Warner | SF | LB | 5 |
| Antoine Winfield Jr. | TB | DB | 5 |
| Derek Stingley Jr. | HOU | DB | 5 |
A career season nobody saw coming. Stone had 1 INT in his first two NFL seasons combined, then logged 7 in a single year — second in the NFL behind Bland's pick-six-fueled 9 and ahead of household-name safeties like Jessie Bates and Antoine Winfield Jr. The Ravens didn't re-sign him; the Bengals signed him to a two-year, $14M deal that off-season.
Career arc: backup → 7-INT All-Pro → CIN starter who turned into a tackle-volume safety.
TrendGeno Stone year-by-year
| Year | Team | G | Solo | Comb | PDs | INTs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | BAL | 9 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | BAL | 11 | 26 | 30 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | BAL | 16 | 35 | 59 | 9 | 7 |
| 2024 | CIN | 17 | 44 | 78 | 6 | 5 |
| 2025 | CIN | 16 | 64 | 103 | 4 | 3 |
Combined tackles vs INTs by year
| Season | Stat count |
|---|---|
| 20 tk | 20 |
| 30 tk | 30 |
| 59 tk · 7 INT | 59 |
| 78 tk · 5 INT | 78 |
| 103 tk · 3 INT | 103 |
The shape of his three starter seasons is the inverse of most safety arcs: INTs dropping from 7 → 5 → 3 while tackles climbing from 59 → 78 → 103. He's playing closer to the line for Cincinnati than he did for Baltimore, by design — Lou Anarumo and now Al Golden are using him in different ways.
8 INTs across 2024-25 — top-10 in the league at any position.
RareNFL interception leaders, 2024-25 combined
| Player | INTs |
|---|---|
| Kerby Joseph | 12 |
| Xavier McKinney | 10 |
| Donte Jackson | 10 |
| Marlon Humphrey | 10 |
| Calen Bullock | 9 |
| Derek Stingley Jr. | 9 |
| Coby Bryant | 8 |
| Geno Stone | 8 |
| C.J. Gardner-Johnson | 8 |
| Byron Murphy | 8 |
| Kevin Byard | 8 |
Three straight seasons with 3+ INTs. Across 2024-25 his 8 picks puts him in a 5-way tie for 7th-most in the NFL — alongside Coby Bryant, Gardner-Johnson, Byron Murphy, and Kevin Byard. The 2023 explosion wasn't a fluke; it was an extreme version of a real ball-hawk profile.
In 2023 he had more INTs than every safety on the Baltimore roster combined except himself.
Comparison2023 Ravens DB interceptions
| Player | INTs | Tackles |
|---|---|---|
| Geno Stone | 7 | 59 |
| Kyle Hamilton | 4 | 75 |
| Brandon Stephens | 3 | 70 |
| Marlon Humphrey | 2 | 24 |
| Arthur Maulet | 2 | 33 |
| Marcus Williams | 1 | 48 |
Stone's 7 INTs were more than Kyle Hamilton, Marlon Humphrey, and Marcus Williams put together that season (7). Hamilton was the Pro Bowl/All-Pro on that secondary; Stone was a backup who started 16 games after Williams got hurt and outpicked everyone.
The Cincinnati version of him is a 6-tackle-a-game safety — he wasn't that in Baltimore.
SplitPer-game pace by team
| Team | Seasons | G | Comb | Per G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 3 | 36 | 109 | 3.0 |
| Cincinnati | 2 | 33 | 181 | 5.5 |
Per-game tackles nearly doubled. Stone's Baltimore role was a deep-safety ball-hawk on a stacked roster (3.0 tackles per game). In Cincinnati he's been deployed as the primary in-the-box safety on a thinner secondary — 5.5 per game, with the 2025 pace at 6.4 combined per game specifically.
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