Daniel Ekuale

Ekuale, Tanielu
Position: DT
Height: 6-3 Weight: 305
Born: January 13, 1994 Pago Pago, American Samoa
High School: Nuuuli Voc-Tech (Pago Pago, American Samoa)

Year	College	Participation
2013	Washington State	Redshirted
2014	Washington State	Lettered
2015	Washington State	Lettered
2016	Washington State	Lettered
2017	Washington State	Lettered

YEAR TEAM	NO	POS	GP	GS
2019 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2019 CLE NFL	96	RDT	7	0
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	99	DT-NT	9	5
2021 New England Patriots (NFL)2021 NE NFL	95	RDT	7	0
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	95	DT-NT	15	0
2023 New England Patriots (NFL)2023 NE NFL	95	DT	3	0
2024 New England Patriots (NFL)2024 NE NFL	95	DT	16	16
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	96	NT	7	0
7 Years (NFL)7 Years NFL			64	21

Team	Date	Transaction
2018 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2018 CLE NFL	5/4/2018	Signed
2018 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2018 CLE NFL	9/1/2018	5/4/2018
2018 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2018 CLE NFL	9/2/2018	Practice Squad
2018 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2018 CLE NFL	12/5/2018	9/2/2018
2019 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2019 CLE NFL	1/1/2019	Signed (Future)
2019 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2019 CLE NFL	11/1/2019	1/1/2019
2020 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2020 CLE NFL	9/5/2020	Released
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	9/8/2020	Practice Squad
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	9/28/2020	9/8/2020
2021 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2021 JAC NFL	9/1/2021	Released
2021 New England Patriots (NFL)2021 NE NFL	9/6/2021	Practice Squad
2021 New England Patriots (NFL)2021 NE NFL	10/23/2021	9/6/2021
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	1/25/2022	Signed (Future)
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	8/30/2022	1/25/2022
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	9/19/2022	Exemption
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	9/21/2022	Activated
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	3/15/2023	9/21/2022
2023 New England Patriots (NFL)2023 NE NFL	3/23/2023	Signed
2023 New England Patriots (NFL)2023 NE NFL	9/26/2023	3/23/2023
2024 New England Patriots (NFL)2024 NE NFL	3/12/2025	Unrestricted Free Agent
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	3/19/2025	Signed
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	10/31/2025	3/19/2025
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	11/25/2025	Reserve/Suspended
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	12/29/2025	Suspension Lifted
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	3/11/2026	12/29/2025

SNAP COUNTS	TOTAL	OFF%	DEF	DEF%	ST	ST%
2019 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2019 CLE NFL	129	0.0	115	10.6	14	3.2
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	349	0.0	290	25.9	59	13.8
2021 New England Patriots (NFL)2021 NE NFL	101	0.0	99	9.2	2	0.5
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	421	0.0	364	32.2	57	12.5
2023 New England Patriots (NFL)2023 NE NFL	65	0.0	53	4.7	12	2.6
2024 New England Patriots (NFL)2024 NE NFL	777	0.0	722	64.6	55	12.6
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	78	0.0	72	6.2	6	1.3
Career Totals (NFL)Career Totals NFL	1920		1715			3.2

SACKS	NO	YDS
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	1.0	9.0
2021 New England Patriots (NFL)2021 NE NFL	2.0	13.0
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	2.0	14.0
2024 New England Patriots (NFL)2024 NE NFL	1.0	5.5
Career Totals (NFL)Career Totals NFL	6.0	41.5

DEFENSE	TKL	DEF	QH	TFL	FF	PD
2019 Cleveland Browns (NFL)2019 CLE NFL	4	4	0	1	0	0
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	13	13	1	1	0	0
2021 New England Patriots (NFL)2021 NE NFL	5	5	2	2	0	0
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	14	14	3	2	0	1
2023 New England Patriots (NFL)2023 NE NFL	3	3	0	0	1	0
2024 New England Patriots (NFL)2024 NE NFL	52	52	3	2	0	0
2025 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)2025 PIT NFL	6	6	1	0	0	1
Career Totals (NFL)Career Totals NFL	97	97	10	8	1	2

PENALTIES	Called	Accepted	Yards	First Downs
2020 Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)2020 JAC NFL	3	3	15	2
2022 New England Patriots (NFL)2022 NE NFL	3	3	21	1
Career Totals (NFL)Career Totals NFL	6	6	36	3