Who are the Miami Dolphins all-time sack leaders?
National Football League and Miami Dolphins historians, rejoice! Theres some new history to sort through over at one of footballs most in-depth databases. The Dolphins boast two of the NFLs most impressive sack artists in NFL history  with first ballot Hall of Famer Jason Taylor leading the way in team history with 131.0 career sacks made while playing in Miami. But with much of the Dolphins defensive heyday taking place before sacks became an official stat back in 1982, the official stat books on sacks were missing some of the most prominent names to lace up the pads for Coach Don Shula during Miamis championship runs. Thats where the good news comes into play. Pro Football Reference, courtesy of some significant research, has been able to update the sack figures for NFL player going all the way back to 1960  a year that is comfortably before the Dolphins were ever a team. The NFL has only officially counted player sacks since 1982, which means sack records and leaderboards present an incomplete history of pass rushing. In many cases we accept these holes in the official record and move on. After all, we dont know how many rushing yards Jim Thorpe had, passing yards Paddy Driscoll had or even how many blocked shots Wilt Chamberlain had. Heck, we dont even officially know how many tackles anyone had in 2020 (or any other season). However, thanks to Official Gamebooks, unofficial tackle totals get published in many places (including here). In the case of sacks, thanks to decades of research by John Turney and Nick Webster, we have a very thorough accounting of the statistic all the way back to 1960. Heres the top-20; with nearly half (8) of them enjoying a new boost in their career totals courtesy of Pro Football References database update:  Provided by Pro-Football-Reference.com