Player
Teair Tart
DL · Chargers
Teair Tart: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
6-season journeyman DT — TEN → HOU → TEN → LAC — with his most productive year coming in year 6.
TrendTart by season and team
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles (Solo+Ast) | Sacks | TFL | QB Hits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | TEN | 6 | 5 (2+3) | 0.0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | TEN | 9 | 14 (8+6) | 0.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | TEN | 13 | 27 (13+14) | 1.5 | 5 | 7 |
| 2023 | TEN/HOU | 13 | 23 (16+7) | 1.0 | 8 | 4 |
| 2024 | LAC | 16 | 32 (17+15) | 1.0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2025 | LAC | 17 | 36 (25+11) | 1.0 | 6 | 2 |
Florida International product, undrafted in 2020. Tart broke in as a rotational nose with the Titans (5 tackles in 6 games), then climbed the depth chart year-over-year. 2025 is the volume peak: 36 combined tackles, 6 TFL, and a playoff sack in the Wild Card round vs Jacksonville.
The LAC move in 2024 has been the inflection point — he's gone from interior depth to a full-time rotational starter playing 16+ games two years running.
Total tackles per season
| Season | Tackles |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 27 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 32 |
| 2025 | 36 |
Career playoff line: Wild Card 2025 vs JAX — 1.0 sack, 2 TFL, 4 tackles, 1 PD, 1 QB hit in a single game.
MilestoneTart Wild Card 2025 vs Jacksonville
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Tackles | 4 (3 solo + 1 ast) |
| Sacks | 1.0 |
| TFL | 2 |
| QB Hits | 1 |
| Pass Defenses | 1 |
In his first career playoff start, Tart produced one of the cleanest interior-DL stat lines of any defender that weekend: a sack, two TFLs, a QB hit, and a pass-defense knockdown — all from the 3-tech and nose spots.
The 2024 Chargers playoff loss to Houston had been a 2-tackle night for him. The 2025 Wild Card was a different player on the field.
2025 splash plays clustered in Week 5 (TFL + FF + FR) and Wild Card (1 sack, 2 TFL).
SplitTart 2025 splash plays by week
| Week | Splash |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 PDs |
| 2 | QB hit |
| 3 | TFL |
| 5 | TFL + FF + FR |
| 7 | TFL |
| 16 | TFL |
| 19 (WC) | 1.0 sack + 2 TFL + QB hit + PD |
The Week 5 forced fumble + recovery double-dip is the kind of finish-the-play production NTs rarely produce — most strip-sacks come from edges. Tart pried one loose at the line of scrimmage, then scooped it himself.
His pass-rush production is bunched around early-season and playoff games — the kind of pattern that suggests scheme deployment, not raw splash, drives his sack opportunity.
6 career sacks across 74 games — a true run-defender, not a pass-rusher disguised as one.
RareTart's career sack total (5.5 regular-season + 1 playoff = 6.5) makes the role explicit: he's a gap-stuffing interior DL whose value is in the run game and disruption, not edge-style pressure. His 27 career TFLs across 74 regular-season games show up on running downs.
That profile is what made him a value signing in LA — the Chargers were specifically looking for an inside body to replace Sebastian Joseph-Day's snaps, and Tart has out-produced that role in both LAC seasons.
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