Player
Bryan Bresee
DL · Saints
Bryan Bresee: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
Three-year arc: 4.5 → 7.5 → 2.5 sacks. The 2024 leap stalled in 2025.
TrendBresee career defensive line (regular season)
| Season | Team | Tk | Ast | TFL | Sacks | QB Hits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | NO | 10 | 12 | 7 | 4.5 | 9 |
| 2024 | NO | 17 | 8 | 7 | 7.5 | 14 |
| 2025 | NO | 14 | 22 | 5 | 2.5 | 8 |
Bresee's career has bent the wrong direction in 2025. After a 2024 breakout — 7.5 sacks, 14 QB hits, 7 TFL in his second year — the production halved. The QB-hit rate (a leading indicator for sack regression) also fell from 14 to 8, so the dip isn't just bad luck on finishes.
The one bright spot: assisted tackles jumped from 8 to 22, suggesting more snaps in run-support clean-up rather than the disruptive pass-rusher role 2024 promised.
Sacks per season
| Season | Sacks |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 7.5 |
| 2025 | 2.5 |
His best NFL game: Week 3 of 2024 — 2 sacks, 2 QB hits in a single afternoon.
MilestoneBresee 2-sack games
| Season | Week | Sacks | QB Hits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 2.0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 15 | 2.0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1.5 | 2 |
Bresee has cleared 2 sacks in a single game twice in his career — Week 15 of his rookie year (2023) and Week 3 of his second year (2024). Both came with 2 QB hits attached, the classic interior-rusher disruption line.
The 2025 season hasn't produced a multi-sack game yet — his best single-week output is 1.0 (Week 4 vs BUF, Week 13 vs LAR).
14.5 career sacks through age 24 — solid for an interior DL, but 2024's pace would have made him a top-10 player.
ComparisonBresee's career total — 14.5 sacks, 31 QB hits across 3 seasons — sits at a respectable interior-rusher pace. The 7.5-sack 2024 was the kind of year that puts you in the Pro Bowl conversation; only 6 interior DLs cleared 8 sacks in 2024.
The 2025 step back drops him out of that group. To re-enter the top tier of interior pass-rushers (Jeffery Simmons, Byron Murphy II, Zach Allen — all 8.5+ sacks in 2025), Bresee needs the QB-pressure-to-sack conversion he flashed at age 23.
22 assisted tackles in 2025 — nearly 3x his 2024 total. The role is changing.
AnomalyBresee solo vs assisted tackles
| Season | Solo Tk | Assists | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | 12 | 0.83 |
| 2024 | 17 | 8 | 2.13 |
| 2025 | 14 | 22 | 0.64 |
The solo-tackle ratio is the tell. In 2024 Bresee was finishing plays himself (17 solo / 8 assist). In 2025 he's arriving at the pile (14 solo / 22 assist). That's consistent with him playing more 1-tech / shade-nose snaps than the 3-tech penetrator role that produces sacks and TFLs.
The TFL count (5 in 2025 vs 7 in each prior year) is also a leading indicator of the same scheme shift.
All 14.5 career sacks in New Orleans — Bresee has only ever played for the Saints.
SplitBresee was the 29th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft out of Clemson. He's been a Saints starter all three years and has never appeared on another roster.
At 6'5", 300 lbs with a 2023 entry year, he's still inside his rookie window — but his INA status on the late-2025 injury report means the 2.5-sack 2025 line may not even reflect a full healthy season.
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