Bio
- Height
- 5' 11"
- College
- Valdosta State
Bio
- Height
- 5' 11"
- College
- Valdosta State
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 209
- TOT
- 831
- SOLO
- 631
- AST
- 200
- SACK
- 21.0
- INT
- 6
- PD
- 36
- FF
- 5
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 |  ATL | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | ATL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | ATL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | ATL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | ATL | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | ATL | 16 | 135 | 102 | 33 | 2.0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 1994 | ATL | 16 | 130 | 93 | 37 | 0.0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | ATL | 16 | 152 | 110 | 42 | 1.0 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 1996 | ATL | 16 | 113 | 95 | 18 | 1.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 1997 | ATL | 16 | 92 | 69 | 23 | 1.5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | ATL | 16 | 85 | 65 | 20 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 1999 | ATL | 14 | 91 | 71 | 20 | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | ATL | 8 | 33 | 26 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 4
- TOT
- 30
- SOLO
- 23
- AST
- 7
- SACK
- 0.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 2
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 209
- TOT
- 4.0
- SOLO
- 3.0
- AST
- 1.0
- SACK
- 0.1
- INT
- 0.0
- PD
- 0.2
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | ATL | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | ATL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | ATL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | ATL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | ATL | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | ATL | 16 | 8.4 | 6.4 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | ATL | 16 | 8.1 | 5.8 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 1995 | ATL | 16 | 9.5 | 6.9 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | ATL | 16 | 7.1 | 5.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | ATL | 16 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 1998 | ATL | 16 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | ATL | 14 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 |
| 2000 | ATL | 8 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Jessie Tuggle's career stats?
ESPN's season-by-season log for Jessie Tuggle covers 13 seasons with the Falcons; its career totals count every season. He recorded 831 tackles, 21 sacks and 6 interceptions. His best season was 1995: 152 tackles and 1.0 sack.
League leaderboards and awards
13 seasons, 2 postseasons, 1987 to 2000
Jessie Tuggle led the NFL in tackles (1995); finished top 10 in a stat 3 times.
All-time career rank
- 105th in tackles (831)
Among the 9,225 NFL players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
Season top 10 finishes
Among qualified NFL players each season, as the glossary defines each stat. All-time places are among players on file.
More on Jessie Tuggle
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