Ben Gardner at Stanford, 2013
Photo: Cynthia Yock, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive end, Stanford, 2009–⁠13

Ben Gardner

Number
No. 49
Height
6′4″
Hometown
Mequon, WI
Born
Apr 29, 1991, in Portland, Oregon

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Ben Gardner played defensive end at Stanford (2009–⁠13). The Dallas Cowboys took Gardner in round 7, No. 231 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2013
First-team All-Pac-12
Drafted
No. 231
Round 7, 2014 NFL Draft (Dallas Cowboys)

Honors

Team titles: Pac-12 champions, 2012 and 2013

Returns

SeasonTeamPRYdsTD
2013Stanford1240

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFFHur
2010531431101
201113231235104.5216
20121326234914.57.5512
2013N9712197.54.501–
On file59481073517.583–

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
2009Stanford49DE
2010Stanford49DE
2011Stanford49DE
2012Stanford49DE
2013Stanford49DE6′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

2013 Stanford 1 game, 1 return, 24 yards
DateOpponentResultPRYds
Sep 21vs.Arizona StateW 42–⁠28124

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

Before the draft

DrillPro day 2014
Height6′4⅛″
Weight262 lb
Arm length30¾″
Hand size9⅝″
40-yard dash5.03 s
Vertical jump39½″
Broad jump10′2″
3-cone drill6.98 s
20-yard shuttle4.24 s

Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

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