Complete career NFL stats for New York Giants Linebacker Lawrence Taylor on ESPN. Includes scoring, rushing, defensive and receiving stats. Checkout the latest stats for Lawrence Taylor. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, college, draft, and more on Pro-football-reference.com. Lawrence Taylor is widely considered to be one of the greatest defensive players in NFL history. In addition to being honored as the NFL MVP, he won three NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Lawrence Taylor is an American collegiate and professional gridiron football player, considered one of the best linebackers in the history of the game. As a member of the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he won Super Bowl championships following the 1986 and 1990 seasons. Lawrence Taylor (born February 4, 1959) is a retired American football player who played for the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL). Taylor was famous for sacking the other team's quarterbacks. Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959), nicknamed L.T. , is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the New York Giants. Lawrence Taylor, an All-America at North Carolina, was the first-round draft pick of the New York Giants and the second player selected overall in the 1981 NFL Draft. Lawrence Taylor's career highlights with the New York Giants! NFLLegends The NFL Throwback is your home for all things NFL history. Taylor, a Giants legend and one of the greatest players in NFL history, turned himself in in Broward County on Wednesday on one count of failure to report name or residence change as a sex. The 65-year-old former linebacker was one of the greatest players in the league, but his legacy was tainted with scandal after he was arrested in 2010 on rape and prostitution charges in connection.