Running back, Tulsa, 2007–⁠10

Charles Clay

Number: No. 9
Height: 6′3″
Hometown: Little Rock, AR
Born: Feb 13, 1989

Charles Clay played running back at Tulsa (2007–⁠10). The Miami Dolphins took Clay in round 6, No. 174 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Best season: 304; Rushing yards, 2007 (Tulsa, 10–⁠4)
Drafted: No. 174; Round 6, 2011 NFL Draft (Miami Dolphins)

112rushing yards, career highat UTEP, 2007 2rushing touchdowns, career hightwice; last at Southern Miss, 2009 11catches, career highvs. Bowling Green, 2007 142receiving yards, career highat Southern Miss, 2009 3receiving touchdowns, career highvs. BYU, 2007

Rushing

Rushing yards, season by season, with his team’s record

304

145

236

226

10–⁠411–⁠35–⁠710–⁠3AP 24

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2007*	Tulsa	57	304	5.3	1	30
2008*	Tulsa	25	145	5.8	2	40
2009	Tulsa	63	236	3.7	7	20
2010	Tulsa	34	226	6.6	0	45
Career		179	911	5.1	10	45

Receiving

Season	Team	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2007*	Tulsa	69	1,024	14.8	7	53
2008*	Tulsa	38	464	12.2	9	73
2009	Tulsa	39	530	13.6	5	63
2010	Tulsa	43	526	12.2	7	42
Career		189	2,544	13.5	28	73

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks
2007	14	0	1	1	0	0
2008	12	5	0	5	1	1
2009	12	3	0	3	0	0
2010	13	1	1	2	0	0
On file		9	2	11	1	1

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
2007	Tulsa	9	RB
2008	Tulsa	9	RB
2009	Tulsa	9	RB
2010	Tulsa	9	RB	6′3″

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

2010 Tulsa 13 games, 226 rushing yards

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Sep 5	atEast Carolina	L 49–⁠51	–	–	–	8	86	1
Sep 11	vs.Bowling Green	W 33–⁠20	4	47	0	4	61	1
Sep 18	atOklahoma State	L 28–⁠65	4	18	0	–	–	–
Sep 25	vs.Central Arkansas	W 41–⁠14	1	3	0	2	36	1
Oct 2	atMemphis	W 48–⁠7	2	2	0	5	32	1
Oct 9	atSMU	L 18–⁠21	1	1	0	4	29	0
Oct 16	vs.Tulane	W 52–⁠24	3	10	0	4	86	2
Oct 30	atNotre Dame	W 28–⁠27	–	–	–	1	6	0
Nov 6	vs.Rice	W 64–⁠27	1	−5	0	2	33	0
Nov 13	atHouston	W 28–⁠25	5	31	0	6	44	0
Nov 20	vs.UTEP	W 31–⁠28	9	57	0	3	42	1
Nov 26	vs.Southern Miss	W 56–⁠50	–	–	–	2	33	0
Dec 24 ✦	vs.Hawai’i	W 62–⁠35	4	62	0	2	38	0

2009 Tulsa 12 games, 236 rushing yards, 7 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Sep 4	atTulane	W 37–⁠13	9	50	1	2	28	0
Sep 12	atNew Mexico	W 44–⁠10	1	1	1	2	22	0
Sep 19	atOklahoma	L 0–⁠45	–	–	–	2	13	0
Sep 26	vs.Sam Houston	W 56–⁠3	–	–	–	1	9	0
Oct 3	atRice	W 27–⁠10	–	–	–	7	54	0
Oct 14	vs.Boise State	L 21–⁠28	2	3	0	3	12	0
Oct 21	atUTEP	L 24–⁠28	16	84	1	4	74	0
Oct 31	vs.SMU	L 13–⁠27	6	27	0	1	13	0
Nov 7	vs.Houston	L 45–⁠46	9	27	2	2	68	2
Nov 15	vs.East Carolina	L 17–⁠44	3	11	0	2	32	0
Nov 21	atSouthern Miss	L 34–⁠44	9	20	2	8	142	2
Nov 27	vs.Memphis	W 33–⁠30	8	13	0	5	63	1

2008 Tulsa 12 games, 145 rushing yards, 2 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Aug 30	atUAB	W 45–⁠22	5	45	0	3	87	2
Sep 6	atNorth Texas	W 56–⁠26	4	23	1	2	15	1
Sep 20	vs.New Mexico	W 56–⁠14	2	8	0	6	98	1
Sep 27	vs.Central Arkansas	W 62–⁠34	1	8	0	3	24	0
Oct 4	vs.Rice	W 63–⁠28	1	5	0	2	23	2
Oct 11	atSMU	W 37–⁠31	2	6	0	1	3	0
Oct 26	vs.UCF	W 49–⁠19	1	1	0	–	–	–
Nov 1	atArkansas	L 23–⁠30	2	31	1	7	117	1
Nov 15	atHouston	L 30–⁠70	4	4	0	6	82	1
Nov 29	atMarshall	W 38–⁠35	1	3	0	2	4	1
Dec 6	vs.East Carolina	L 24–⁠27	2	11	0	4	18	0
Jan 6 ✦	vs.Ball State	W 45–⁠13	–	–	–	2	−7	0

2007 Tulsa 14 games, 304 rushing yards, 1 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Aug 30	atUL Monroe	W 35–⁠17	4	5	0	8	92	0
Sep 15	vs.BYU	W 55–⁠47	–	–	–	3	98	3
Sep 21	vs.Oklahoma	L 21–⁠62	2	7	0	5	70	0
Sep 29	vs.UAB	W 38–⁠30	9	51	0	2	24	0
Oct 6	atUTEP	L 47–⁠48	11	112	1	2	−1	0
Oct 13	vs.Marshall	W 38–⁠31	10	28	0	5	102	0
Oct 20	atUCF	L 23–⁠44	3	13	0	5	60	0
Oct 27	vs.SMU	W 29–⁠23	3	3	0	5	106	1
Nov 3	atTulane	W 49–⁠25	1	4	0	2	43	0
Nov 10	vs.Houston	W 56–⁠7	1	4	0	5	97	1
Nov 17	atArmy	W 49–⁠39	5	28	0	5	95	0
Nov 24	atRice	W 48–⁠43	–	–	–	5	57	0
Dec 1	atUCF	L 25–⁠44	–	–	–	6	112	1
Jan 6 ✦	vs.Bowling Green	W 63–⁠7	8	49	0	11	69	1

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2011	Combine or pro day 2011
Height	6′2⅞″
Weight	245 lb
Arm length	33″
Hand size	9⅝″
Wingspan		78⅜″^W
40-yard dash	4.73 s
10-yard split		1.67 s
Vertical jump	33½″
Broad jump	9′10″
Bench press	18 reps
3-cone drill	7.07 s
20-yard shuttle	4.15 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

9 seasons, 123 games with a stat; latest team: Arizona Cardinals.

Season	Team	G	Car	Yds	TD	Rec	Rec yds
2011	Miami Dolphins	13	0	0	0	16	233
2012	Miami Dolphins	13	0	0	0	18	212
2013	Miami Dolphins	16	7	15	1	69	759
2014	Miami Dolphins	14	0	0	0	58	605
2015	Buffalo Bills	13	0	0	0	51	528
2016	Buffalo Bills	15	0	0	0	57	552
2017	Buffalo Bills	13	0	0	0	49	558
2018	Buffalo Bills	11	0	0	0	21	184
2019	Arizona Cardinals	15	0	0	0	18	237
NFL career		123	7	15	1	357	3,868

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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