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Clyde Simmons

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Chicago Bears · DE

Clyde Simmons recorded 230 indexed regular-season NFL appearances across 15 rostered seasons with Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles.

▶Best highlights

0.2

tackles/gm

9

playoff games

15

indexed seasons

230

career games

Five defining games

Start here

A provisional five-game introduction to Clyde Simmons's most significant indexed performances.

Regular Season
1991
PHILADELPHIAEAGLES
DALLASCOWBOYS
SEP 15, 1991

Philadelphia Eagles vs Dallas Cowboys

Regular Season · Sep 15, 1991

0 tackles · 4.5 sacks · 0 INT

Wild Card
1996
JACKSONVILLEJAGUARS
BUFFALOBILLS
DEC 28, 1996

Jacksonville Jaguars vs Buffalo Bills

Wild Card · Dec 28, 1996

0 tackles · 2 sacks · 1 INT

Regular Season
1989
PHILADELPHIAEAGLES
DENVERBRONCOS
OCT 29, 1989

Philadelphia Eagles vs Denver Broncos

Regular Season · Oct 29, 1989

0 tackles · 3.5 sacks · 0 INT

Regular Season
1999
CHICAGOBEARS
OAKLANDRAIDERS
SEP 26, 1999

Chicago Bears vs Oakland Raiders

Regular Season · Sep 26, 1999

4 tackles · 3 sacks · 0 INT

Regular Season
1992
PHILADELPHIAEAGLES
NEW YORKGIANTS
NOV 22, 1992

Philadelphia Eagles vs New York Giants

Regular Season · Nov 22, 1992

0 tackles · 3 sacks · 0 INT

Single-game peaks

Career highs

Position-relevant single-game records from Clyde Simmons's indexed NFL box scores.

Career highs: 4 total tackles · 2 quarterback hits · 1 forced fumble

Regular Season
1999
CHICAGOBEARS
OAKLANDRAIDERS
SEP 26, 1999

Chicago Bears vs Oakland Raiders

Regular Season · Sep 26, 1999

4 tackles · 3 sacks · 0 INT

Career high: 4.5 sacks

Regular Season
1991
PHILADELPHIAEAGLES
DALLASCOWBOYS
SEP 15, 1991

Philadelphia Eagles vs Dallas Cowboys

Regular Season · Sep 15, 1991

0 tackles · 4.5 sacks · 0 INT

Career high: 1 tackle for loss

Regular Season
1999
CHICAGOBEARS
ST. LOUISRAMS
DEC 26, 1999

Chicago Bears vs St. Louis Rams

Regular Season · Dec 26, 1999

1 tackles · 0 sacks · 0 INT

Career high: 1 interception

Wild Card
1996
JACKSONVILLEJAGUARS
BUFFALOBILLS
DEC 28, 1996

Jacksonville Jaguars vs Buffalo Bills

Wild Card · Dec 28, 1996

0 tackles · 2 sacks · 1 INT

Career chapters

Franchise eras

Follow the team eras that shaped Clyde Simmons's career, in chronological order.

Earliest → latest

Franchise era

1986–1998

01
PHISIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
PHIWHITE92Reggie White
PHICUNNINGHAM7Randall Cunningham

A historic front cannot find a matching offense

Philadelphia Eagles · The Buddy Ryan defense

White led one of football's deepest defenses while Cunningham reimagined quarterback movement, but the gifted group never won a playoff game together.

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Franchise era

1988–2003

02
ARISIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
ARIWILLIAMS35Aeneas Williams
ARIPLUMMER16Jake Plummer

A new market waits for a stable winner

Arizona Cardinals · Finding a home in Arizona

The move to the desert brought only one playoff appearance in sixteen seasons, though Williams became an all-time defender and Plummer authored a memorable upset in Dallas.

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Franchise era

1983–1999

03
MIASIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
MIAMARINO13Dan Marino
MIACLAYTON83Mark Clayton

The quickest release in football rewrites passing

Miami Dolphins · The Marino years

Marino shattered records immediately and kept Miami relevant for seventeen seasons, though his lone Super Bowl came in year two.

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Franchise era

1993–2000

04
NESIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
NEBLEDSOE11Drew Bledsoe
NECOATES87Ben Coates

A No. 1 quarterback brings the Patriots back

New England Patriots · Parcells and Bledsoe reset expectations

Robert Kraft's ownership and Bill Parcells's coaching stabilized the organization, leading to Super Bowl XXXI and a roster ready for another regime.

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Franchise era

1995–1999

05
JAXSIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
JAXBRUNELL8Mark Brunell
JAXSMITH82Jimmy Smith

Four straight playoff trips and two AFC title games

Jacksonville Jaguars · The expansion rocket

Tom Coughlin built an expansion roster with extraordinary speed, upsetting Denver in 1996 and going 14–2 three years later.

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Franchise era

1992–2002

06
CINSIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
CINDILLON28Corey Dillon
CINPICKENS81Carl Pickens

Instability overwhelms individual talent

Cincinnati Bengals · The lost decade

Cincinnati went fourteen seasons without a winning record even as Dillon and a handful of draft successes supplied isolated excellence.

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Franchise era

1993–2003

07
CHISIMMONS96Clyde Simmons
CHICOX52Bryan Cox
CHICONWAY80Curtis Conway

A proud identity waits for another core

Chicago Bears · Between great defenses

Chicago searched for offensive stability while gradually assembling the line and linebackers that would power its next contender.

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Career accomplishments

First-team All-Pro · 1991, 1992NFL sacks leader · 1992Pro Bowl selection · 1991, 199215 NFL seasons230 career games27 career solo tackles122 career sacksJersey: 969 playoff appearancesFirst appearance: Sep 7, 1986Most recent: Dec 24, 2000

Official awards via ESPN · Pro Bowl and All-Pro counts via NFLverse with selection years cross-checked against Wikipedia · league leads verified from indexed regular-season stats

Team history