Bio
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Debut
- 1983
- College
- Minnesota
Bio
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Debut
- 1983
- College
- Minnesota
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 180
- TOT
- 128
- SOLO
- 103
- AST
- 25
- SACK
- 79.0
- INT
- 5
- PD
- 7
- FF
- 3
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 |  DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | DEN | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | DEN | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | DEN | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | DEN | 16 | 73 | 61 | 12 | 9.0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1994 | DEN | 16 | 55 | 42 | 13 | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 7
- TOT
- 6
- SOLO
- 4
- AST
- 2
- SACK
- 2.0
- INT
- 1
- PD
- 0
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 180
- TOT
- 0.7
- SOLO
- 0.6
- AST
- 0.1
- SACK
- 0.4
- INT
- 0.0
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | DEN | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | DEN | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | DEN | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | DEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | DEN | 16 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | DEN | 16 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Karl Bernard Mecklenburg's career stats?
Karl Bernard Mecklenburg played 12 seasons for the Broncos. He recorded 128 tackles, 79 sacks and 5 interceptions. His best season was 1993: 73 tackles and 9.0 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
12 seasons, 3 postseasons, 1983 to 1994
All-time career rank
- 85th in sacks (79.0)
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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