Bio
- Height
- 6' 1"
- College
- Swarthmore
Bio
- Height
- 6' 1"
- College
- Swarthmore
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 119
- TOT
- 229
- SOLO
- 185
- AST
- 44
- SACK
- 41.0
- INT
- 3
- PD
- 17
- FF
- 1
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 |  SEA | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | SEA | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | SEA | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | SEA | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | SEA | 7 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 1.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | SEA | 16 | 75 | 61 | 14 | 1.5 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | NO | 13 | 58 | 46 | 12 | 3.0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 1996 | NO | 13 | 43 | 34 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | TB | 11 | 32 | 26 | 6 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 2
- TOT
- 4
- SOLO
- 3
- AST
- 1
- SACK
- 0.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 1
- FF
- 0
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 119
- TOT
- 1.9
- SOLO
- 1.6
- AST
- 0.4
- SACK
- 0.3
- INT
- 0.0
- PD
- 0.1
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | SEA | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | SEA | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | SEA | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | SEA | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | SEA | 7 | 3 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 1994 | SEA | 16 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0 |
| 1995 | NO | 13 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | NO | 13 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | TB | 11 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Rufus Porter's career stats?
Rufus Porter played 9 seasons for the Seahawks, the Saints and the Buccaneers. He recorded 229 tackles, 41 sacks and 3 interceptions. His best season was 1994: 75 tackles and 1.5 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
9 seasons, 1 postseason, 1989 to 1997
All-time career rank
- 270th in sacks (41.0)
Among the 9,225 NFL players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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