2024 SEASON
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Defense
YEAR | TEAM | G | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | TDS | YDS | AVG | LNG |
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2024 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 3 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
2023 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 17 | 51 | 28 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 15 | 30 |
2022 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 17 | 60 | 35 | 25 | 14.5 | 0 | 1 | |||||
2021 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 16 | 65 | 37 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||||
2020 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 16 | 42 | 26 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
TOTAL | 69 | 227 | 130 | 97 | 30.5 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 10.7 | 30 |
Biography
PRO CAREER
- Has played in 66 games (55 starts) in his four-year NFL career (Pittsburgh 2020-23)
- Has registered 236 tackles (144 solo), 40 tackles for loss, 29.5 sacks, 59 quarterback hits, three interceptions, five passes defensed, eight forced fumbles and one interception return for TD
- Has recorded six tackles (four solo) on special teams
- His interception return for TD in Week 2 of 2023 vs. Cleveland came nine seconds into the game, which was the fastest TD to open a game for the Steelers since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger
- First Steelers player to record an interception on the first play from scrimmage in a game since William Gay in 2014
- In Pittsburgh's victory over Cleveland in Week 2 of 2023, Highsmith and T.J. Watt both recorded a sack and defensive TD -- becoming the first pair of teammates to each post a sack and TD in the same game since 1982, when the sack became an official statistic
- Since 2020, only one team has had three players with at least 26.5 sacks, 59 quarterback hits and 40 tackles for loss (Pittsburgh's T.J. Watt, Cameron Heyward and Alex Highsmith)
- Only player in the NFL in 2023 with at least 7.0 sacks and two interceptions
- One of just three players in the League with at least 7.0 sacks and two interceptions in a season since entering the NFL in 2020
- His 21.5 sacks are the 12th-most in the NFL since the start of the 2022 season
- His seven forced fumbles are tied for the second-most in the NFL since the start of the 2022 season
- His six strip sacks are tied for the second-most in the NFL since the start of the 2022 season
- Has recorded 24.5 sacks in his last 37 games, dating back to Week 16 of the 2021 season, which is the 12th-most in the NFL over the span
- Has recorded seven strip sacks in his last 37 games, dating back to Week 16 of the 2021 season, which is the second-most in the NFL over the span
- Has registered eight forced fumbles in his last 37 games, dating back to Week 16 of the 2021 season, which is the second-most in the NFL over the span
- Has recorded seven multi-sack games in his career
- Made NFL debut in Week 1 of 2020 (at N.Y. Giants)
- Made NFL starting debut in Week 13 of 2020 (vs. Washington)