Bio
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Debut
- 2002
- Draft
- 2002Rd 3, Pk 73
- College
- Georgia
Bio
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Debut
- 2002
- Draft
- 2002Rd 3, Pk 73
- College
- Georgia
Stats
Totals
Career regular season
- GP
- 189
- TOT
- 951
- SOLO
- 757
- AST
- 194
- SACK
- 26.0
- INT
- 14
- PD
- 72
- FF
- 11
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | CAR | 15 | 71 | 56 | 15 | 1.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2003 | CAR | 16 | 99 | 74 | 25 | 1.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2004 | CAR | 16 | 103 | 85 | 18 | 3.0 | 4 | 12 | 1 |
| 2005 | CAR | 15 | 81 | 66 | 15 | 2.5 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| 2006 | LAR | 16 | 116 | 102 | 14 | 3.0 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
| 2007 | LAR | 16 | 110 | 92 | 18 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 2008 | LAR | 16 | 72 | 57 | 15 | 1.0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2009 |  LAR/PHI | 17 | 91 | 80 | 11 | 1.0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2010 | TEN | 16 | 92 | 63 | 29 | 3.0 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 2011 | TEN | 16 | 56 | 41 | 15 | 2.0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | TEN | 14 | 47 | 29 | 18 | 1.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | LAR | 16 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
Career Postseason
- GP
- 8
- TOT
- 52
- SOLO
- 38
- AST
- 14
- SACK
- 2.0
- INT
- 0
- PD
- 3
- FF
- 2
Per game
Career regular season
- GP
- 189
- TOT
- 5.0
- SOLO
- 4.0
- AST
- 1.0
- SACK
- 0.1
- INT
- 0.1
- PD
- 0.4
- FF
- 0.1
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | CAR | 15 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | CAR | 16 | 6.2 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 2004 | CAR | 16 | 6.4 | 5.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | CAR | 15 | 5.4 | 4.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2006 | LAR | 16 | 7.3 | 6.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | LAR | 16 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | LAR | 16 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| 2009 | LAR/PHI | 17 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| 2010 | TEN | 16 | 5.8 | 3.9 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | TEN | 16 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 2012 | TEN | 14 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 2013 | LAR | 16 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 |
What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF
What were Will Witherspoon's career stats?
Will Witherspoon played 12 seasons for the Panthers, the Rams, the Eagles and the Titans. He recorded 951 tackles, 26 sacks and 14 interceptions. His best season was 2006: 116 tackles and 3.0 sacks.
League leaderboards and awards
12 seasons, 3 postseasons, 2002 to 2013
All-time career rank
- 66th in tackles (951)
Among the 9,029 NFL players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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