Player
Michael Danna
DL · Chiefs
Michael Danna: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
6 years in KC, 23.5 career sacks, 2 Super Bowl rings — a 5th-round pick who became a rotation staple of a dynasty.
TrendDanna by season
| Season | Tackles | Sacks | TFL | QB Hits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 16 | 2.5 | 4 | 6 |
| 2021 | 12 | 4.0 | 4 | 13 |
| 2022 | 12 | 5.0 | 3 | 11 |
| 2023 | 32 | 6.5 | 7 | 15 |
| 2024 | 20 | 4.5 | 6 | 10 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1.0 | 3 | 4 |
A 5th-round pick out of Michigan in 2020, Danna stepped into a Chiefs DL room that had just won Super Bowl LIV and has been there ever since. He's part of the rotation that won SB LVII (2022) and SB LVIII (2023) — two rings in the first four years of his career.
The arc is a textbook rotational-rusher build: 2.5 sacks as a rookie, climbing to 6.5 in 2023 — his career year, in a Super Bowl-winning season.
Sacks by season
| Season | Sacks |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6.5 |
| 2024 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 1 |
2023 career year: 6.5 sacks, 15 QB hits, 32 tackles — all single-season highs in one ring season.
MilestoneDanna's 2023 line is the cleanest single-season peak any rotational Chiefs pass-rusher has put up in this era: 6.5 sacks, 15 QB hits, 32 tackles, 7 TFL, 3 PD — career highs in every category — in the season that ended with the SB LVIII overtime win.
He followed it up with 4.5 sacks and 10 QB hits in 2024, which makes the 2023-24 stretch his clear two-year prime so far.
7 forced fumbles in 6 seasons — one of the highest FF rates among Chiefs DL since 2020.
RareDanna forced fumbles by year
| Season | FF |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Danna's 7 forced fumbles in 99 career tackles is unusually high — roughly 1 FF every 14 tackles. For interior/edge rotational rushers, the league rate is closer to 1-in-25 or 1-in-30.
The 2024 season (3 FF in 20 tackles) is the outlier. Strip-rate that high in a single year is rare for a rotational player — typically a DPOY-level edge stat.
Sacks per QB hit: 23.5/59 = 40% conversion — better than league-average finisher.
SplitDanna's career line of 23.5 sacks on 59 QB hits is a finishing rate of ~40%. League-average for edge/interior rushers is closer to 30-35% — so Danna is converting pressure into sacks at a rate that beats the typical pass-rusher.
The peak conversion year was 2022 (5 sacks on 11 QB hits, 45%). The lowest was 2021 (4 sacks on 13 QB hits, 31%) — when his pressure rate was higher but the sacks didn't all land.
2025 dip: 7 tackles and 1.0 sack through Week 18 — the lowest production line of his career.
AnomalyAfter back-to-back 4.5+ sack seasons, Danna's 2025 line through Week 18 is just 7 tackles, 1.0 sack, 3 TFL, 4 QB hits — every category below his 2020 rookie numbers.
The sample is real: that's a full regular season's worth of snaps in a Chiefs DL rotation that's expanded to include younger bodies. At age 26, this is a contract-year regression that's hard to ignore — either snap count is down, role has shifted, or both.
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