A.J. Klein

Number: No. 47
Height: 6′2″
Hometown: Kimberly, WI
Born: Jul 30, 1991, in Appleton, Wisconsin

Wikipedia readers: about 1,297 a month over the past year

A.J. Klein played linebacker at Iowa State (2009–⁠12). The Carolina Panthers took Klein in round 5, No. 148 overall in the 2013 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2011; Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and First-team All-Big 12
Drafted: No. 148; Round 5, 2013 NFL Draft (Carolina Panthers)

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Defense

Season	Team	Int
2010	Iowa State	3
2011	Iowa State	1
2012	Iowa State	1
Career		5

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks	Int	PBU	FF	Hur
2009	9	7	10	17	0	0	0	0	1	0
2010	12	49	62	111	8	0	3	1	0	1
2011	13	66	51	117	7.5	2	1	6	0	3
2012	13	59	58	117	3.5	1	1	2	0	3
On file		181	181	362	19	3	5	9	1	7

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2009	Iowa State	47	LB
2010	Iowa State	47	LB
2011	Iowa State	47	LB
2012	Iowa State	47	LB	6′2″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2012 Iowa State 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 29	vs.Texas Tech	L 13–⁠24	1

2011 Iowa State 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Oct 15	atMissouri	L 17–⁠52	1

2010 Iowa State 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 18	vs.Kansas State	L 20–⁠27	1
Sep 25	vs.Northern Iowa	W 27–⁠0	1
Oct 2	vs.Texas Tech	W 52–⁠38	1

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

Played in the 2013 East–West Shrine Game (West team, won 28–⁠13).

Drill	Combine 2013	Combine or pro day 2013
Height	6′1¼″
Weight	250 lb
Arm length	32⅞″
Hand size	10¼″
40-yard dash	4.66 s
10-yard split		1.60 s^W
Vertical jump		33″
Broad jump	9′5″
Bench press	20 reps
3-cone drill		7.06 s
20-yard shuttle		4.35 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

10 seasons, 114 games with a stat; latest team: Buffalo Bills.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2013	Carolina Panthers	9	20	2	0
2014	Carolina Panthers	12	38	0	0
2015	Carolina Panthers	12	53	1	1
2016	Carolina Panthers	11	28	1	0
2017	New Orleans Saints	10	54	2	0
2018	New Orleans Saints	16	66	2	1
2019	New Orleans Saints	14	65	2.5	1
2020	Buffalo Bills	15	65	5	0
2021	Buffalo Bills	10	28	0	1
2022	Buffalo Bills	5	15	0	0
NFL career		114	432	15.5	4

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

Is this you, or do you know of something wrong or missing here? Suggest a correction. We check each one against a source before changing the page.