Bio
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Debut
- 1981
- Draft
- 1981Rd 2, Pk 23
- College
- Pittsburgh
Bio
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Debut
- 1981
- Draft
- 1981Rd 2, Pk 23
- College
- Pittsburgh
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 211
- TOT
- 156
- SOLO
- 137
- AST
- 19
- SACK
- 128.0
- INT
- 8
- PD
- 8
- FF
- 8
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 |  NO | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | NO | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | NO | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | NO | 16 | 79 | 67 | 12 | 11.5 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1994 | SF | 16 | 41 | 38 | 3 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1995 | SF | 16 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 9.5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 6
- TOT
- 5
- SOLO
- 5
- AST
- 0
- SACK
- 3.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 1
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 211
- TOT
- 0.7
- SOLO
- 0.6
- AST
- 0.1
- SACK
- 0.6
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | NO | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | NO | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | NO | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | NO | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | NO | 16 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 1994 | SF | 16 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | SF | 16 | 2.3 | 2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Rickey Jackson's career stats?
Rickey Jackson played 14 seasons for the Saints and the 49ers. He recorded 156 tackles, 128 sacks and 8 interceptions. His best season was 1993: 79 tackles and 11.5 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
14 seasons, 4 postseasons, 1982 to 1995
Championships
- 1994 Super Bowl with the San Francisco 49ers
All-time career rank
- 18th in sacks (128.0)
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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