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From the vault · December 26, 1964 · 1964 AFL Championship Game: The Buffalo Bills beat the San Diego Chargers 20–7 at War Memorial Stadium to win the 1964 AFL championship. Box score

A.J. Epenesa

LB · 6′6″ 280 lb · Born 1998-09-15 · College: Iowa · Played 2020–2026 · Drafted 2020 round 2, pick 54 by Buffalo Bills ·

IDs

ESPN=4240585, NFLVERSE=00-0036192, NFLVERSE=EPE415291, OTC=8794, PFR=EpenAJ00

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Defense

Year	Team	Pos	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int	PD	FF	TD
2020	BUF	LB	10		1	0	1	0	0
2021	BUF	LB	14		1.5	0	1	0	0
2022	BUF	LB	10		6.5	0	5	2	0
2023	BUF	LB	14		6.5	2	8	1	1
2024	BUF	LB	16		6	0	2	2	0
2025	BUF	LB	15		2.5	2	4	0	0
Total			79	0	24	4	21	5	1

Teams

Year	Team	Pos	#
2020	Buffalo Bills	DL	57
2021	Buffalo Bills	DL	57
2022	Buffalo Bills	DL	57
2023	Buffalo Bills	DL	57
2024	Buffalo Bills	DL	57
2025	Buffalo Bills	DL	57
2026	Philadelphia Eagles	DL	57

Advanced stats

Coverage & pass rush

Year	Team	Pos	G	Tgt	Cmp	Cmp%	Yds	Y/Tgt	Rat	ADOT	Blitz	Hurry	QBKD	Sk	Prs	Tkl	MTkl	MTkl%
2020	BUF	DE	14	1	1	100.0%	7	7.0	95.8	7.0	1	3	3	1.0	7	14	0	0.0%
2021	BUF	DE	14	0	0		0				1	5	7	1.5	14	14	4	22.2%
2022	BUF	DE	15	2	2	100.0%	24	12.0	116.7	3.0	1	3	4	6.5	14	16	3	15.8%
2023	BUF	DE	15	3	2	66.7%	25	8.3	52.8	6.3	1	4	3	6.5	14	20	4	16.7%
2024	BUF	LDE	17	4	2	50.0%	14	3.5	58.3	-3.8	0	6	4	6.0	16	39	2	4.9%
2025	BUF	DE	16	4	2	50.0%	8	2.0	16.7	0.3	0	3	6	2.5	12	32	3	8.6%

Pro Football Reference advanced statistics (2018 on), via nflverse.

Snap counts

Year	Team	G	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2020	BUF	1	0%	20	31%	9	31%
2020	BUF	1	0%	29	38%	14	58%
2020	BUF	14	0%	291	30%	79	19%
2020	BUF	1	0%	22	28%	6	24%
2021	BUF	1	0%	19	25%	16	48%
2021	BUF	14	0%	330	37%	144	41%
2021	BUF	1	0%	26	41%	8	32%
2022	BUF	1	0%	32	43%	0	0%
2022	BUF	15	0%	375	38%	43	12%
2022	BUF	1	0%	32	45%	1	3%
2023	BUF	1	0%	25	50%	0	0%
2023	BUF	15	0%	387	41%	26	7%
2023	BUF	1	0%	24	37%	1	4%
2024	BUF	1	0%	46	70%	4	17%
2024	BUF	1	0%	35	59%	3	13%
2024	BUF	17	0%	612	55%	63	14%
2024	BUF	1	0%	18	43%	2	9%
2025	BUF	1	0%	28	39%	16	52%
2025	BUF	16	0%	438	47%	85	20%
2025	BUF	1	0%	23	41%	5	19%
2026	PHI	1	0%	12	17%	6	19%

Games with a snap count on file (2012 on); percentages are the average share per game.

Depth chart history

Year	Team	Listed at	Weeks as starter	Weeks listed
2020	BUF	RDE, LDE	2	18
2021	BUF	RDE, LDE	0	18
2022	BUF	EDGE, RDE	1	19
2023	BUF	EDGE	0	19
2024	BUF	EDGE	16	19

Regular-season depth charts (2001 on). A starter is a first-string listing that week.

Contracts

Signed	Team	Yrs	Value	Per year	Guaranteed	Cap%
2020	Buffalo Bills	4	$5.9M	$1.5M	$3.3M	0.7%	current

Career contract value $5.9M (Over The Cap, via nflverse). Cap% is the average per year against that season's salary cap.

Combine

Year	Pos	School	Ht	Wt	40	Bench	Vert	Broad	3-cone	Shuttle
2020	DL	Iowa	6′5″	275	5.04	17	32.5	117	7.34	4.46

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Injury reports (17)

Year	Wk	Team	Injury	Game status	Practice
2020	12	BUF	Concussion		Full Participation in Practice
2020	16	BUF	Not Injury Related		Full Participation in Practice
2021	5	BUF	Foot	Questionable	Limited Participation in Practice
2021	15	BUF	Ankle	Questionable	Limited Participation in Practice
2022	12	BUF	Ankle	Doubtful	Did Not Participate In Practice
2022	13	BUF	Ankle		Full Participation in Practice
2022	16	BUF	Elbow		Full Participation in Practice
2023	7	BUF	Quadricep		Full Participation in Practice
2023	15	BUF	Rib	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2023	16	BUF	Rib	Questionable	Limited Participation in Practice
2023	17	BUF	Rib	Questionable	Full Participation in Practice
2025	4	BUF	Pectoral	Questionable	Limited Participation in Practice
2025	10	BUF	Concussion	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2025	11	BUF	Concussion		Full Participation in Practice
2025	14	BUF	Foot		Full Participation in Practice
2025	18	BUF	Illness		Full Participation in Practice
2025	20 (DIV)	BUF	Neck		Limited Participation in Practice

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