Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 30)
By JERRY TAPP
In the Oct. 20, 2016 game versus the Chicago Bears, Packers linebacker Nick Perry had a sack and an interception. It was the first time since Micah Hyde had a sack and an interception on November 23, 2014 that a Packers player had a sack and an interception in the same game.
Thirty-four times since the 1982 a Packers player has had a sack and an interception in the same game. It was done by 24 different players.
Here are the six Packers players who had a sack and an interception in the same game two or more times.
Four games with a sack and an interception: LeRoy Butler, Charles Woodson
Two games with a sack and an interception: John Anderson, Al Harris, Clay Matthews, Bryce Paup.
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.