Detroit Lions Interceptions Leaders

Career totals with the Lions and the best single seasons in club history. Records run through the 2025 season. Figures before 1932 are reconstructions; the NFL kept no official statistics. Portsmouth Spartans 1930-1933.

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Dick LeBeau holds the Lions career record with 62 interceptions. The single-season record is 12, by Jack Christiansen in 1953.

SK INT TKL TFL SOLO PD FF QBH TD

All-time Lions leaders

Career totals with the club

#	Player	With the club	INT	G
1	Dick LeBeau	1959–1972	62	185
2	Lem Barney	1967–1977	56	140
3	Yale Lary	1952–1964	50	133
4	Jack Christiansen	1951–1958	46	89
5	Jim David	1952–1959	36	96
6	Bob Smith	1949–1954	29	62
7	James Hunter	1976–1982	27	86
8	Don Doll	1949–1952	26	47
9	Jimmy Allen	1978–1981	24	60
9	Joe Schmidt	1953–1965	24	155
11	Levi Johnson	1973–1977	21	59
11	Mike Lucci	1965–1973	21	117
11	Night Train Lane	1960–1965	21	66
14	Kerby Joseph	2022–2025	20	55
14	Bruce McNorton	1982–1990	20	116
14	Bobby Watkins	1982–1988	20	83
17	Dre' Bly	2003–2006	19	55
17	Gary Lowe	1957–1964	19	85
17	Glover Quin	2013–2018	19	93
17	Darius Slay	2013–2019	19	99
21	Mike Weger	1967–1975	17	108
22	Ray Crockett	1989–1993	16	79
22	Bruce Maher	1960–1967	16	108
22	Wayne Rasmussen	1964–1972	16	112
25	Charlie Weaver	1971–1981	15	142

Single-season Lions records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	INT	G
1	Jack Christiansen	1953	12	12
1	Don Doll	1950	12	11
3	Don Doll	1949	11	12
4	Lem Barney	1967	10	14
4	Jack Christiansen	1957	10	12
6	Jimmy Allen	1981	9	15
6	Kerby Joseph	2024	9	17
6	Dick LeBeau	1970	9	14
6	Bob Smith	1952	9	12
6	Bob Smith	1949	9	12
11	Lem Barney	1969	8	13
11	Jack Christiansen	1956	8	12
11	Jack Christiansen	1954	8	11
11	Willie Clay	1995	8	16
11	Yale Lary	1956	8	12
11	Yale Lary	1962	8	14
11	Darius Slay	2017	8	16
18	Lem Barney	1968	7	14
18	Lem Barney	1970	7	13
18	Jim David	1954	7	12
18	Jim David	1952	7	12
18	Jim David	1956	7	12
18	James Hunter	1976	7	13
18	Glover Quin	2014	7	15
18	Kurt Schulz	2000	7	11