Bio
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Debut
- 1983
- Draft
- 1983Rd 4, Pk 26
- College
- TCU
Bio
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Debut
- 1983
- Draft
- 1983Rd 4, Pk 26
- College
- TCU
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 190
- TOT
- 52
- SOLO
- 43
- AST
- 9
- SACK
- 109.5
- INT
- 3
- PD
- 0
- FF
- 4
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 |  LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | LV | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | LV | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | LV | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | LV | 16 | 27 | 22 | 5 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1994 | PHI | 16 | 24 | 20 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | LV | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 7
- TOT
- 5
- SOLO
- 4
- AST
- 1
- SACK
- 7.5
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 1
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 190
- TOT
- 0.3
- SOLO
- 0.2
- AST
- 0.0
- SACK
- 0.6
- INT
- 0.0
- PD
- 0
- FF
- 0.0
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | LV | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | LV | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | LV | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | LV | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | LV | 16 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | PHI | 16 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | LV | 4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Greg Townsend's career stats?
Greg Townsend played 13 seasons for the Raiders and the Eagles. He recorded 52 tackles, 109.5 sacks and 3 interceptions. His best season was 1993: 27 tackles and 7.5 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
13 seasons, 3 postseasons, 1983 to 1997
Championships
- 1983 Super Bowl with the Las Vegas Raiders
All-time career rank
- 34th in sacks (109.5)
Among the 9,225 NFL players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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