I'd like for forced fumbles and fumbles recovered be listed as defensive stats instead of miscellaneous stats; it makes more sense to me that way.

What if that Stat is recorded by an offensive player?

That's something I would be able to live with, because when I'm comparing defensive players I want to look at their fumble stats too.

Offensive players would get filtered out by the lack of sacks and tackles. In other words if I sort the defensive stats list by tackles, I won't see offensive players but I will be able to quickly glance at how well the best tacklers are contributing in other facets of the game.

Ah. For some reason I thought you were talking about during a game.