Player
Paulson Adebo
CB · Giants
Paulson Adebo: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
245 solo tackles + 51 PDs + 12 INTs across 5 seasons — pivoted from Saints to Giants.
TrendAdebo by season
| Season | Team | G | Solo | Asst | PD | INT | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | NO | 15 | 51 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | NO | 13 | 47 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | NO | 15 | 51 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | NO | 7 | 41 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | NYG | 12 | 55 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
Adebo's profile is the ball-hawking, target-heavy corner: across 62 games he's piled up 12 INTs and 51 PDs — including a stretch from 2023 to 2024 where he posted 8 INTs in 22 games while playing the Saints' boundary.
The 2024 femur fracture in Week 7 ended what was likely his best season — he already had 4 INTs through 7 games when he went down. The Giants signed him on a 3-year, $54M deal in 2025 to pair with Deonte Banks.
INTs by season
| Season | INT |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 |
18 PDs in 2023 — 3rd-most among all DBs that season.
Rare2023 pass-defense leaders (DBs)
| Player | PD |
|---|---|
| Charvarius Ward | 24 |
| Darious Williams | 19 |
| Paulson Adebo | 18 |
| L'Jarius Sneed | 17 |
| Benjamin St-Juste | 17 |
| Tyrique Stevenson | 16 |
| Devon Witherspoon | 16 |
Adebo's 2023 was a statistical breakout: 18 PDs, 4 INTs, 2 FFs, 2 FRs — the kind of full-toolkit corner line that gets you Pro Bowl talk. Only Charvarius Ward (24) and Darious Williams (19) had more PDs leaguewide.
That season ended with the Saints declining his 5th-year option — a decision that aged poorly when he followed it with a 4-INT pace in only 7 games of 2024.
Zero INTs in 2022 — the only zero in his career, sandwiched between 3-INT and 4-INT seasons.
AnomalyAdebo's career INT totals: 3, 0, 4, 4, 1. The 2022 zero is the only season where he didn't pick a pass — and it came in a year where his PD count (7) and tackle volume (47/9) were almost identical to the 2023 explosion line. The difference: 2023 he caught what he got his hands on.
That single-season variance is one of the cleanest illustrations of how INT counts swing on hands, not coverage. The PD-to-INT ratio bounces between 2.0 and 7.0 across his career.
Career-best 4 INTs in just 7 games (2024) — a 9.7-pick full-season pace cut short by injury.
MilestoneThrough Week 7 of 2024, Adebo had 4 INTs in 7 games — a 9.7-INT 17-game pace that would have led the NFL. He broke his right femur on a tackle in that Week 7 game and missed the rest of the season.
The 7-game line: 41 solo tackles, 10 PDs, 4 INTs, 1 FF. Extrapolated to 17 games: 99 tackles, 24 PDs, 9.7 INTs, 2.4 FFs — a true DPOY-caliber pace. The Saints declined to extend him; the Giants paid $54M over 3 years to call that the ball-skills weren't a fluke.
12 career INTs in 62 games — a pick every 5.2 games, top-15 rate among active CBs.
ComparisonAn INT every 5.2 games is elite ball-hawk territory. For context: peak Trevon Diggs ran a pick every 4.0 games during his 2021 AP1 season, and Marshon Lattimore — the Saints corner Adebo eventually replaced — averages one every 7.3 games for his career.
The career line stays clean: 12 INTs, 51 PDs, 245 solo tackles in 62 games. The Giants are counting on him getting healthy to run back the 2023-2024 hot streak (8 INTs in 22 games) over a full season.
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