Adrian Clayborn with the Atlanta Falcons, 2015
With the Atlanta Falcons, 2015. Photo: Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive end, Iowa, 2006–⁠10

Adrian Clayborn

Lettered 2007–⁠10 (school media guide)

Number
No. 94
Height
6′4″
Hometown
St. Louis, MO
Born
Jul 6, 1988, in St. Louis, Missouri

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Adrian Clayborn played defensive end at Iowa (2006–⁠10). He was a consensus All‑American in 2010. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took Clayborn in the first round, No. 20 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2010
Consensus All-American and First-team All-Big Ten
Drafted
No. 20
Overall, 2011 NFL Draft (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Honors

Returns

SeasonTeamPRYdsTD
2009Iowa1531

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFFHur
2007N11317202.5211–
2008N131535508241–
2009133634702011.5249
20101319335273.5116
On file7311919237.51987–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2009Iowa94DE
2010Iowa94DE6′4″

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

2009 Iowa 1 game, 1 return, 53 yards
DateOpponentResultPRYds
Sep 26atPenn StateW 21–⁠10153

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2011Combine or pro day 2011
Height6′2⅝″
Weight281 lb
Arm length32½″
Hand size9¾″
Wingspan74¼″W
40-yard dash4.85 s
10-yard split1.67 s
Vertical jump33″
Broad jump9′5″
Bench press17 reps
3-cone drill7.30 s
20-yard shuttle4.13 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).

In the NFL

10 seasons, 106 games with a stat; latest team: Cleveland Browns.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2011Tampa Bay Buccaneers15397.50
2012Tampa Bay Buccaneers2200
2013Tampa Bay Buccaneers16545.50
2014Tampa Bay Buccaneers1100
2015Atlanta Falcons151430
2016Atlanta Falcons10194.50
2017Atlanta Falcons15219.50
2018New England Patriots11112.50
2019Atlanta Falcons131740
2020Cleveland Browns8123.50
NFL career106190400

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.

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