Defensive tackle, Clemson, 2012–16
Carlos Watkins
- Number
- No. 94
- Height
- 6′3″
- Hometown
- Mooresboro, NC
- Born
- Dec 5, 1993, in Forest City, North Carolina
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Carlos Watkins played defensive tackle at Clemson (2012–16). The Houston Texans took Watkins in round 4, No. 142 overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.
Career highs
2sacks, career highvs. Ohio State, 2016All-America: CBS Sports 2016
Team titles: ACC champions, 2015 and 2016; National champions, 2016
Defense
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.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013N | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1.5 | – |
| On file | 7 | 11 | 18 | 2.5 | – | |
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
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
2016 Clemson 15 games, 50 tackles, 10.5 sacks
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3 | at Auburn | W 19–13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | vs. Troy | W 30–24 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | vs. South Carolina State | W 59–0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 22 | at Georgia Tech | W 26–7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | vs. Louisville | W 42–36 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 7 | at Boston College | W 56–10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 15 | vs. NC State | W 24–17 | 6 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | at Florida State | W 37–34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | vs. Syracuse | W 54–0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 12 | vs. Pittsburgh | L 42–43 | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | at Wake Forest | W 35–13 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 26 | vs. South Carolina | W 56–7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 3 | vs. Virginia Tech | W 42–35 | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31 ✦ | vs. Ohio State | W 31–0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jan 9 ✦ | vs. Alabama | W 35–31 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2015 Clemson 1 game, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | vs. App State | W 41–10 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
Played in the 2017 Senior Bowl (South team, won 16–15).
| Drill | Combine 2017 | Combine or pro day 2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′3¼″ | |
| Weight | 309 lb | |
| Arm length | 34⅝″ | |
| Hand size | 10⅜″ | |
| 40-yard dash | 5.01 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.77 sW | |
| Vertical jump | 28″ | |
| Broad jump | 9′0″ | |
| Bench press | 25 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 7.97 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.73 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
8 seasons, 68 games with a stat; latest team: Tennessee Titans.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Houston Texans | 9 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | Houston Texans | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | Houston Texans | 9 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | Houston Texans | 15 | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | Dallas Cowboys | 14 | 29 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | Dallas Cowboys | 11 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Arizona Cardinals | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | Dallas Cowboys | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 68 | 139 | 6 | 1 | |
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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