Zaire Barnes stats

Giants

Linebacker · #46

Age 27 · 6' 1" · 232 lbs

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Zaire Barnes recorded 13 tackles and 0.0 sacks in 8 games of 2026 for the New York Giants. Last game: .

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Totals

GP
8
TOT
13
SOLO
7
AST
6
SACK
0.0
INT
0
PD
0
FF · 14th
2

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.

Totals by season
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.
2025NYG112917121.0000
2026NYG813760.0002

What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF

Career regular season

GP
19
TOT
42
SOLO
24
AST
18
SACK
1.0
INT
0
PD
0
FF
2

Per game

GP
8
TOT
1.6
SOLO
0.9
AST
0.8
SACK
0.0
INT
0
PD
0
FF
0.3

Per game: season totals ÷ games played. Derived here — averages, completion rate and longest plays are the stored figures and are left as they are.

Per game by season
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.
2025NYG112.61.51.10.1000.0
2026NYG81.60.90.80.0000.3

What the columns mean: TOT · SOLO · AST · SACK · INT · PD · FF

Career regular season, Per game

GP
19
TOT
2.2
SOLO
1.3
AST
0.9
SACK
0.1
INT
0
PD
0
FF
0.1

Bio

Age
27 yearsSep 3, 1999
Height
6' 1"
Weight
232 lbs
Experience
4 years
Birthplace
Mundelein, IL
Draft
2023Rd 6, Pk 184
College
Western Michigan
Salary
$1.15 million2026

Against other linebackers

2026 regular season, 209 NFL linebackers with 6+ games.

  • Tackles13

    Higher than 26% of the other 208 NFL linebackers.

  • Forced Fumbles2

    Higher than 88% of the other 208 NFL linebackers.

  • Solo Tackles7

    Higher than 30% of the other 208 NFL linebackers.

Latest performance

Zaire Barnes

Nov 08 · @ PHI · W 19-11

TOT
2
SOLO
1
AST
1
SACK
0.0
INT
0
PD
0

Snap counts, 2026

78% of his club's special-teams snaps a game (174 in 8 games); 80% in week 9.

His special-teams snaps and snap share by week
WkOppSnapsSnap %
1DAL1263%
2LAR1771%
3TEN1774%
4ARI2483%
5WSH2576%
6NO3291%
7HOU2382%
9PHI2480%

NFL snap counts, every player

Games

All games

Next

vs WSHThu, Nov 12

vs WSH since 2025

2
GP
2
TOT
2
SOLO
0
SACK
0
INT
Most recent games
DateOpponentTOTSOLOSACKINT
Sun, Nov 08atPHIW 19-112100
Sun, Oct 25atHOUW 27-21 OT1100
Sun, Oct 18vsNOL 34-272000
Sun, Oct 11atWSHT 27-27 OT2200
Sun, Oct 04vsARIW 36-241100
Sun, Sep 27vsTENW 12-71000

What are Zaire Barnes's career stats?

Zaire Barnes has played 2 seasons for the Giants. He has recorded 42 tackles and 1 sack. His best season so far is 2025: 29 tackles and 1.0 sack.

Best single games

  • Tackles: 13 @ NE on Dec 1, 2025, L 33-15
  • Sacks: 1 @ NE on Dec 1, 2025, L 33-15
Zaire Barnes's best game in each stat, by season
TOT: Tackles made, solo and assisted together.SACK: Quarterbacks tackled behind the line of scrimmage. A shared sack counts as a half.
20261—
2025131.0

What the columns mean: TOT · SACK

Regular season only, from NFL game logs since 2025.

Zaire Barnes college stats

Zaire Barnes played 4 seasons at Western Michigan Broncos (2018 to 2022): 205 tackles, 3.5 sacks and 1 interception.

rushing

Zaire Barnes's college rushing by season
SeasonSchoolCARCAR: Times the player ran with the ball.YDSYDS: Yards gained on the quarterback's completed passes.AVGAVG: Passing yards per throw, incompletions included. The league average sits near 7.TDTD: Touchdown passes thrown.LNG
2022Western Michigan Broncos11101

defensive

Zaire Barnes's college defensive by season
TOT: Tackles made, solo and assisted together.SOLO: Tackles made alone, with no teammate sharing the credit.AST: Passes that led directly to a team-mate's basket.PD: Passes the defender broke up or deflected.SACK: Quarterbacks tackled behind the line of scrimmage. A shared sack counts as a half.FF: Times the defender knocked the ball loose, whoever recovered it.INT: Passes thrown to the other team — lower is better.YDS: Yards gained on the quarterback's completed passes.TD: Touchdown passes thrown.
2018Western Michigan Broncos1578000000
2019Western Michigan Broncos291613100000
2021Western Michigan Broncos68452302.51000
2022Western Michigan Broncos9360338111120

College seasons as ESPN files them for the school he played for. Game by game: Zaire Barnes's college game log.

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