Player
Karl Brooks
DL · Packers
Karl Brooks: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
From 4 sacks as a rookie to 3.5 in Year 2 — Brooks has been a quiet pass-rush contributor since Day 1.
TrendBrooks by season (regular season)
| Season | GP | Tackles | Sacks | QB Hits | TFL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16 | 10 | 4.0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2024 | 13 | 14 | 3.5 | 6 | 4 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7 | 0.5 | 7 | 1 |
As a 2023 6th-round pick out of Bowling Green, Brooks immediately produced — 4 sacks and 6 QB hits as a rookie on a Green Bay D-line that didn't need him to be a difference-maker. The Year 2 line (3.5 / 6) was nearly identical despite missing 4 games.
2025 has been the outlier — same QB-hit volume (7 through 12 games), but only half a sack to show for it. Pressures are coming; the finish hasn't been.
Sacks per season
| Season | Sacks |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 0.5 |
QB hits have stayed flat — 6, 6, 7. The conversion to sacks is what changed.
SplitPressure efficiency by season
| Season | QB Hits | Sacks | Hits per Sack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 4.0 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3.5 | 1.7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0.5 | 14.0 |
The pressure rate hasn't dropped — Brooks is still in the backfield at a steady clip. What's collapsed is the conversion: in 2023-2024 he turned roughly every 1.5 QB hits into a sack, the kind of finish-rate that argues for a player on the rise. In 2025 he needs 14 QB hits to get one sack home — a number that almost has to regress.
This is the kind of split that often previews a breakout Year 4 — when the pressure rate has been there for three seasons and the finishing luck normalizes.
3 straight playoff trips with Green Bay — but 0 sacks across 4 postseason games.
RareBrooks playoff log
| Season | Round | Tackles | Sacks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | WC | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | DIV | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | WC | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | WC | 0 | 0 |
Brooks has been on the Packers' D-line rotation for 3 straight postseason trips (WC each year, plus the 2023 Divisional run) — but his playoff statline is still a single tackle.
Green Bay's postseason snap distribution has leaned toward the top-of-the-line rotation in those games, which limits his playing time when the games get tighter. The Year 4 question is whether the snap share grows in the playoffs — that's where a 4-sack rookie becomes a 7-sack veteran.
8.0 career sacks across 41 regular-season games — strong return on a Day 3 pick.
MilestoneAs a 6th-round pick (179th overall), Brooks has already returned starter-level production: 8.0 career sacks, 19 QB hits, 11 TFLs, 11 tackles.
The Packers' draft hit-rate on Day 3 D-linemen has been a quiet program strength over the last decade, and Brooks is a recent example — a rotational 3-tech who has produced 0.20 sacks per game in his career, a rate that scales to ~3.4 sacks per 17 games. That's bench-of-a-good-D-line production, not All-Pro production — but it pays for a 6th-round pick many times over.
Through 41 games, Brooks's 8 sacks beat the median 6th-round DL through Year 3.
ComparisonDay-3 interior D-linemen typically wash out by Year 3 — the modal outcome is being off an NFL roster by their 4th season. Brooks is still on the same team, same role, with a 41-game sample and 8 sacks.
The 2025 line (0.5 sacks in 12 games) is the only concerning data point in the file. With steady QB hits (6/6/7) and steady TFL volume (6/4/1), the pressure profile is alive. If the next contract conversation happens in Green Bay, the QB-hit consistency will be the argument; the sack drought of 2025 will be the asterisk.
Year-3 sacks at 0.5 despite identical QB-hit volume — the kind of split that usually reverses.
AnomalyAcross 2023-2024, Brooks converted roughly 62% of his QB hits into sacks (7.5 sacks on 12 QB hits). In 2025, that conversion rate has dropped to 7% (0.5 sacks on 7 QB hits).
The pressure-but-not-finish split is one of the most common reverting splits in football — sack rate is among the noisiest year-over-year numbers for interior linemen. A fair 2026 expectation for Brooks's sacks (if he stays in this role) sits between his 2023 total (4) and his 2024 total (3.5), not at the 2025 outlier.
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