Bio
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Debut
- 1987
- Draft
- 1987Rd 1, Pk 2
- College
- Alabama
Bio
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Debut
- 1987
- Draft
- 1987Rd 1, Pk 2
- College
- Alabama
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 206
- TOT
- 662
- SOLO
- 502
- AST
- 160
- SACK
- 71.5
- INT
- 7
- PD
- 57
- FF
- 13
Ranked among NFL players who qualify (TOT, SOLO, SACK, PD, FF: 8+ games; AST: 4+ games) that season; only the top 50 are shown. How each stat qualifies: glossary.
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | TOT: Tackles made, solo and assisted together. | SOLO: Tackles made without help. | AST: Assisted tackles, where the player helped bring the carrier down. | SACK: Quarterbacks tackled behind the line of scrimmage. A shared sack counts as a half. | INT: Interceptions — thrown away by a quarterback, taken by a defender. | PD: Passes defensed — throws broken up before they were caught. | FF: Fumbles forced by knocking the ball loose. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 |  BUF | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | BUF | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | BUF | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | BUF | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | BUF | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | BUF | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | BUF | 16 | 90 | 72 | 18 | 5.0 | 1 | 16 | 2 |
| 1994 | BUF | 16 | 77 | 58 | 19 | 5.0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1995 | BUF | 14 | 103 | 80 | 23 | 2.0 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 1996 | ATL | 13 | 59 | 51 | 8 | 3.0 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| 1997 | ATL | 16 | 89 | 66 | 23 | 7.0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 1998 | ATL | 16 | 92 | 69 | 23 | 1.0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | IND | 16 | 102 | 69 | 33 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2000 | IND | 16 | 50 | 37 | 13 | 3.0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 15
- TOT
- 63
- SOLO
- 42
- AST
- 21
- SACK
- 1.5
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 5
- FF
- 1
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 206
- TOT
- 3.2
- SOLO
- 2.4
- AST
- 0.8
- SACK
- 0.3
- INT
- 0.0
- PD
- 0.3
- FF
- 0.1
Per game: season totals ÷ games played. Derived here — averages, completion rate and longest plays are the stored figures and are left as they are.
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | TOT: Tackles made, solo and assisted together. | SOLO: Tackles made without help. | AST: Assisted tackles, where the player helped bring the carrier down. | SACK: Quarterbacks tackled behind the line of scrimmage. A shared sack counts as a half. | INT: Interceptions — thrown away by a quarterback, taken by a defender. | PD: Passes defensed — throws broken up before they were caught. | FF: Fumbles forced by knocking the ball loose. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | BUF | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | BUF | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | BUF | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | BUF | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | BUF | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | BUF | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | BUF | 16 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | BUF | 16 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | BUF | 14 | 7.4 | 5.7 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | ATL | 13 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | ATL | 16 | 5.6 | 4.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | ATL | 16 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 1999 | IND | 16 | 6.4 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 2000 | IND | 16 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Cornelius Bennett's career stats?
Cornelius Bennett played 14 seasons for the Bills, the Falcons and the Colts. He recorded 662 tackles, 71.5 sacks and 7 interceptions. His best season was 1995: 103 tackles and 2.0 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
14 seasons, 6 postseasons, 1987 to 2000
All-time career rank
- 102nd in sacks (71.5)
- 234th in tackles (662)
Among the 9,233 NFL players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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