Bio
- Height
- 6' 7"
- Debut
- 1984
- College
- Wichita State
Bio
- Height
- 6' 7"
- Debut
- 1984
- College
- Wichita State
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 182
- TOT
- 92
- SOLO
- 73
- AST
- 19
- SACK
- 62.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 4
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 |  NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | NO | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | WSH | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | WSH | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | WSH | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | ATL | 14 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1994 | ATL | 16 | 32 | 26 | 6 | 8.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1995 | ATL | 16 | 30 | 26 | 4 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1996 | DEN | 16 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 5.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 8
- TOT
- 2
- SOLO
- 1
- AST
- 1
- SACK
- 3.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 1
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 182
- TOT
- 0.5
- SOLO
- 0.4
- AST
- 0.1
- SACK
- 0.3
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 0.0
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | NO | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | WSH | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | WSH | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | WSH | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | ATL | 14 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | ATL | 16 | 2 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | ATL | 16 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | DEN | 16 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Jumpy Geathers's career stats?
Jumpy Geathers played 12 seasons for the Saints, the Commanders, the Falcons and the Broncos. He recorded 92 tackles and 62 sacks. His best season was 1994: 32 tackles and 8.0 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
12 seasons, 4 postseasons, 1984 to 1996
Championships
- 1991 Super Bowl with the Washington Commanders
All-time career rank
- 143rd in sacks (62.0)
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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