Bio
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Debut
- 1985
- Draft
- 1985Rd 1, Pk 3
- College
- Texas A&M
Bio
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Debut
- 1985
- Draft
- 1985Rd 1, Pk 3
- College
- Texas A&M
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 163
- TOT
- 140
- SOLO
- 105
- AST
- 35
- SACK
- 76.5
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 5
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 |  TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | TEN | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | TEN | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | TEN | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | TEN | 16 | 56 | 47 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1994 | TEN | 16 | 67 | 48 | 19 | 6.0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1995 | TEN | 6 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 1996 | DAL | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 5
- TOT
- 2
- SOLO
- 2
- AST
- 0
- SACK
- 2.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 0
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 163
- TOT
- 0.9
- SOLO
- 0.6
- AST
- 0.2
- SACK
- 0.5
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | TEN | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | TEN | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | TEN | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | TEN | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | TEN | 16 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | TEN | 16 | 4.2 | 3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| 1995 | TEN | 6 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 1996 | DAL | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Ray Childress's career stats?
Ray Childress played 12 seasons for the Titans and the Cowboys. He recorded 140 tackles and 76.5 sacks. His best season was 1994: 67 tackles and 6.0 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
12 seasons, 3 postseasons, 1985 to 1996
All-time career rank
- 89th in sacks (76.5)
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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