Dick Butkus had the most fumble recoveries by a linebacker in his first 8 seasons, with 26 recoveries.
| NAME | FR | GP | TKL | AST | COMB | SCK | SCKY | INT | INT YDS | INT TD | FF | FR TD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | D. Butkus | 26 | 110 | 21 | 166 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 2 | | C. Spielman | 17 | 124 | 10.5 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 3 | | C. Bennett | 17 | 115 | 50.5 | 5 | 40 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | | M. Arneson | 17 | 111 | 5 | 42 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| 5 | | G. Fiss | 17 | 100 | 11 | 149 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 6 | | J. Reger | 17 | 95 | 8 | 82 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| 7 |  | D. Thomas | 16 | 126 | 98.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||
| 8 | | S. Mills | 16 | 117 | 9.5 | 3 | 23 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| 9 | | M. Douglass | 16 | 119 | 19.0 | 10 | 274 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 10 | | R. Williams | 16 | 111 | 12.0 | 14 | 161 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 11 | | M. Blair | 16 | 118 | 15 | 119 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| 12 | | B. Dusek | 16 | 114 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| 13 | | R. Nitschke | 16 | 100 | 15 | 254 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 14 | | C. Bednarik | 16 | 95 | 16 | 235 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 15 | | T. Spikes | 15 | 114 | 305 | 158 | 463 | 20.5 | 12 | 208 | 3 | 7 | 1 | |
| 16 | | J. Holland | 15 | 103 | 3.5 | 9 | 130 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 17 | | B. Koman | 15 | 102 | 6 | 25 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 18 | | L. David | 14 | 121 | 724 | 284 | 1,008 | 22.5 | 155 | 11 | 174 | 2 | 21 | 1 |
| 19 | | B. Thomas | 14 | 128 | 44.0 | 2 | 81 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 20 |  | K. Greene | 14 | 119 | 82.0 | 2 | 35 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 21 | | M. Merriweather | 14 | 116 | 37.0 | 17 | 277 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 22 | | D. Bunz | 14 | 88 | 1.0 | 4 | 34 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 23 | | J. Lambert | 14 | 115 | 25 | 238 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 24 | | F. McNeill | 14 | 119 | 6 | 27 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 25 | | D. Washington | 14 | 99 | 6 | 152 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
StatMuse has season-level data for fumble recoveries going back to the 1945 season.
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