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Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959), nicknamed "L.T.", is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the New York Giants. He is almost consensually regarded as the greatest defensive player of all time.
By including the unofficial sack/dump records from 1960 to 1981, the following players also qualify as members of the 100-Sack Club. [48] [49] Additionally, linebackers (LB) Lawrence Taylor and Rickey Jackson played their rookie seasons in 1981, which was the last season that sacks were not officially tracked. Taylor had 9.5 and Jackson had 8.0 ...
Jared Allen led the league in sacks in 2007 and 2011. Al Baker is the unofficial NFL record holder with 23 sacks during the 1978 NFL season. [2] The Deacon Jones Award, given annually to the player who leads the league in sacks, is named after Deacon Jones. Jones unofficially led the league in sacks five times.
Here's how his career's gone so far – and how he compares to iconic New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Micah Parsons career stats, awards. ... Taylor had 26 sacks. He had 98 over the ...
On October 23, 2006, with a sack on Drew Bledsoe in a Monday Night Football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Strahan tied Lawrence Taylor for the Giants franchise record for most career sacks with 132 1 ⁄ 2 (this total does not include 9 1 ⁄ 2 sacks accrued by Taylor in his rookie season of 1981, the year before sacks became an official NFL ...
The Giants' defensive leader was Hall of Fame outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who led the league with 20.5 sacks during the regular season, won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award for the third time in his career, and became just the second defensive player to win the NFL Most Valuable Player Award (Alan Page was the first in 1971 ...
The Giants defense held the Eagles to 58 total yards, [25] and Lawrence Taylor had four sacks and seven tackles. The sack total was Taylor's highest single game total since the 1984 season. [24] The Giants dominated in time of possession; they held the ball for 39 minutes and 33 seconds to the Eagles 20 minutes and 27 seconds. [25]
Led by Taylor, who recorded 12 tackles and two sacks, [35] the Giants' defense held the Vikings to 132 passing yards. [36] Taylor also forced a fumble by Vikings quarterback Rich Gannon and pressured Gannon into an interception by Gary Reasons at the Minnesota 17-yard line, which positioned Matt Bahr for the game-clinching 18-yard field goal. [35]