Pat O'Connor
DL
#95
Experience: 7 years
Height: 6-4
Age: 32
Weight: 300 lbs
College: Eastern Michigan
2025 SEASON
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Defense
| YEAR | TEAM | G | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | TDS | YDS | AVG | LNG |
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| 2025 | Detroit Lions | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 2024 | Detroit Lions | 12 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2023 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 2022 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2021 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2020 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 16 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2019 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2017 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 3 | |||||||||||
| TOTAL | 88 | 42 | 23 | 19 | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biography
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- Super Bowl Champion: LV
- Appeared in 12 games in 2024, tallying 13 tackles (three solo), two tackles for loss and 1.0 sack. He also added five special teams tackles (two solo).
- A seven-year veteran who returned for a second stint with the Lions in 2024 after playing 68 games with the Buccaneers (2017-23).
- Recorded his first-career sack and tackle for loss vs. Minnesota (12/13/20).
COLLEGE:
- Appeared in 49 career games (36 starts) at Eastern Michigan (2012-16), recording 166 tackles (68 solo), 33.5 tackles for loss, 20.0 sacks, eight pass defenses, seven forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.
- Holds the EMU career sack record since 1998.
- 2016: Started all 13 games, logging 42 tackles (17 solo), 14.5 tackles for loss, 8.5 sacks, five forced fumbles and three pass defenses.
- First-Team All-MAC
- Finished fifth in the NCAA and second in the MAC in forced fumbles.
- Recorded the third-most sacks in the MAC.
- Ranked fifth in the MAC in tackles for loss.
- 2015: Awarded a medical redshirt after sitting out the season due to injury.
- 2014: Started all 12 games, recording 64 tackles (27 solo), 14.0 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, two pass defenses and one fumble recovery.
- First-Team All-MAC
- Placed second in the MAC in sacks.
- Ranked fourth in the conference in tackles for loss.
- 2013: Played in all 12 games (11 starts), tallying 44 tackles (18 solo), 5.0 tackles for loss, 4.0 sacks and three pass defenses.
- 2012: Appeared in all 12 games as a freshman, totaling 16 tackles (six solo).
PERSONAL:
- Attended Saint Rita High School (Chicago, Ill.), where he was named a 2011 Chicago Tribune All-State Honorable Mention and Chicago Sun-Times All-Area Honorable Mention as a senior.