MF #29

Minkah Fitzpatrick

Safety · Alabama

Three-time first-team All-Pro safety now in New York after a 2025 trade ended his Steelers tenure.

Minkah Fitzpatrick spent six seasons in Pittsburgh as one of the league's best safeties. Three first-team All-Pros, four Pro Bowls, the rare safety who shifted defensive game plans. He was traded to the Jets in March 2025 in exchange for Jets safety Tony Adams and a 2026 second-round pick.

★ 3x First-team All-Pro

★ 4x Pro Bowl

★ DROY runner-up (2018)

★ 25+ career interceptions

★ 2017 CFP National Champion (Alabama)

Path to the league

Alabama national champion taken 11th overall by the Dolphins in 2018. Traded to Pittsburgh in September 2019 in one of the most lopsided trades of the decade (Pittsburgh sent a first-rounder, Miami took it and built a roster around it; Fitzpatrick made All-Pro that same year).

Career highlights

3x First-team All-Pro (2019, 2020, 2022). 4x Pro Bowl. 2019 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year runner-up. 25+ career interceptions. Most career multi-INT games among active safeties.

2025 season recap

2 INTs, 88 tackles, 9 pass breakups. The Jets went 4-13 and traded Sauce Gardner midseason. Fitzpatrick's contract runs through 2026; the team's defensive rebuild is being built around him for the long term.

Sources

Wikipedia: Minkah Fitzpatrick
Pro Football Reference: Minkah Fitzpatrick

Statistics

2025 season and career

2025 Season · Defense

14 games played

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Defense · career

Year	Team	GP	TOT	SOLO	SACK	INT	FF	FR	PD
2025	dolphins	14	82	59	1	1	1	2	6
2024	steelers	17	96	62	0	1	1	0	4
2023	steelers	10	64	43	0	0	0	0	3
2022	steelers	15	96	56	0	6	0	0	11
2021	steelers	16	124	84	0	2	1	1	7
2020	steelers	16	79	60	0	4	1	1	11
2019	dolphins	2	12	8	0	0	1	1	0
2019	steelers	14	57	36	0	5	1	2	9
2019	2019 Totals	16	69	44	0	5	2	3	9
2018	dolphins	16	80	51	0	2	0	0	9