No player drafted in the sixth round or later has ever recorded more than eight sacks in his rookie season, with Tennessee’s Carlos Hall and Tampa Bay’s Stylez G. White hitting that mark in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
(Was that an excuse to get a reference to Stylez G. White? You bet, even though White’s “rookie year” came five years after he was drafted.)
Perhaps more relevant here is that 39 players drafted in the sixth round or later have recorded at least three sacks in their rookie seasons. Richard Dent is among those players, beginning his Hall of Fame career with three sacks in 1983.