Linebacker, Vanderbilt, 2019–⁠22

Anfernee Orji

Height: 6′2″
Weight: 230 lb
Class (2022): Senior
Hometown: Rockwall, TX
Born: Oct 6, 2000

Anfernee Orji played linebacker at Vanderbilt (2019–⁠22).

13tackles, career highthree times; last at Alabama, 2022

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record

106

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2019	Vanderbilt	6	2	0	0	0	1	1
2020	Vanderbilt	65	30	1.5	1	0	2	0
2021	Vanderbilt	71	43	11.5	1	0	1	2
2022	Vanderbilt	106	52	6.5	1	1	0	2
Career		248	127	19.5	3	1	4	5

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

Season	Team	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2019	Vanderbilt	LB	Fr.
2020	Vanderbilt	LB	So.
2021	Vanderbilt	LB	Jr.
2022	Vanderbilt	LB	Sr.	6′2″	230

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

2022 Vanderbilt 12 games, 106 tackles, 1 sack, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int
Aug 27	atHawai’i	W 63–⁠10	3	2	0	0	0
Sep 3	vs.Elon	W 42–⁠31	13	5	0.5	0	0
Sep 10	vs.Wake Forest	L 25–⁠45	11	5	0	0	0
Sep 17	atNorthern Illinois	W 38–⁠28	12	4	1.5	0	0
Sep 24	atAlabama	L 3–⁠55	13	3	0	0	0
Oct 8	vs.Ole Miss	L 28–⁠52	9	7	1	0	0
Oct 15	atGeorgia	L 0–⁠55	10	5	0	0	0
Oct 22	atMissouri	L 14–⁠17	12	7	2.5	1	1
Nov 5	vs.South Carolina	L 27–⁠38	6	6	1	0	0
Nov 12	atKentucky	W 24–⁠21	4	2	0	0	0
Nov 19	vs.Florida	W 31–⁠24	8	4	0	0	0
Nov 26	vs.Tennessee	L 0–⁠56	5	2	0	0	0

2021 Vanderbilt 10 games, 71 tackles, 1 sack

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 18	vs.Stanford	L 23–⁠41	6	5	0	0	0
Sep 25	vs.Georgia	L 0–⁠62	5	4	2	0	0
Oct 2	vs.UConn	W 30–⁠28	5	3	3	0	0
Oct 9	atFlorida	L 0–⁠42	7	2	0	0	0
Oct 16	atSouth Carolina	L 20–⁠21	8	7	1	1	0
Oct 23	vs.Mississippi State	L 6–⁠45	6	4	1	0	0
Oct 30	vs.Missouri	L 28–⁠37	12	7	1	0	0
Nov 13	vs.Kentucky	L 17–⁠34	2	1	0	0	0
Nov 20	atOle Miss	L 17–⁠31	9	4	1	0	0
Nov 27	atTennessee	L 21–⁠45	11	6	2.5	0	1

2020 Vanderbilt 9 games, 65 tackles, 1 sack

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 26	atTexas A&M	L 12–⁠17	6	2	0	0	1
Oct 3	vs.LSU	L 7–⁠41	4	1	0	0	0
Oct 10	vs.South Carolina	L 7–⁠41	8	4	0	0	0
Oct 31	vs.Ole Miss	L 21–⁠54	4	1	0	0	0
Nov 7	atMississippi State	L 17–⁠24	9	3	0	0	0
Nov 14	atKentucky	L 35–⁠38	7	2	0	0	0
Nov 21	vs.Florida	L 17–⁠38	9	1	0.5	0	1
Nov 28	atMissouri	L 0–⁠41	5	5	0	0	0
Dec 12	vs.Tennessee	L 17–⁠42	13	11	1	1	0

2019 Vanderbilt 6 games, 6 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	PD
Oct 5	atOle Miss	L 6–⁠31	1	0	0
Oct 12	vs.UNLV	L 10–⁠34	1	0	0
Oct 19	vs.Missouri	W 21–⁠14	0	0	1
Nov 2	atSouth Carolina	L 7–⁠24	1	0	0
Nov 16	vs.Kentucky	L 14–⁠38	2	1	0
Nov 23	vs.East Tennessee State	W 38–⁠0	1	1	0

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2023
Height	6′1″
Weight	230 lb
Arm length	32″
Hand size	10¼″
Wingspan	78⅛″^W
40-yard dash	4.53 s
10-yard split	1.54 s^W
Vertical jump	38½″
Broad jump	10′2″
3-cone drill	7.00 s
20-yard shuttle	4.43 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

1 season, 10 games with a stat; latest team: Tennessee Titans.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2024	New Orleans Saints	10	27	0	0

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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