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Linebacker, North Carolina, 2016–⁠20

Chazz Surratt

Number: No. 21
Height: 6′2″
Weight: 225 lb
Class (2020): Senior
Hometown: Denver, NC
Born: Feb 16, 1997, in Denver, North Carolina

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Chazz Surratt played linebacker at North Carolina (2016–⁠20). The Minnesota Vikings took Surratt in round 3, No. 78 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft.

Best season: 115; Tackles, 2019 (North Carolina, 7–⁠6)
Best game: 9 tackles; Vs. Syracuse, week 2, 2020: No. 3 defensive game in FBS that week
Drafted: No. 78; Round 3, 2021 NFL Draft (Minnesota Vikings)

259passing yards, career hightwice; last vs. Duke, 2017 2rushing touchdowns, career highat Old Dominion, 2017 17tackles, career highat Virginia Tech, 2019 2sacks, career highvs. Syracuse, 2020

All-America: Sporting News 2020

Defense

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

115

3–⁠97–⁠68–⁠4AP 18

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2017	North Carolina	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
2019	North Carolina	115	66	15	6.5	1	3	10
2020	North Carolina	91	49	7.5	6	1	3	6
Career		207	116	22.5	12.5	2	6	16

Passing

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int
2017	North Carolina	107	183	58.5	1,342	7.3	8	3
2018	North Carolina	4	10	40.0	10	1.0	0	3
Career		111	193	57.5	1,352	7.0	8	6

Rushing

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2017	North Carolina	85	210	2.5	5	59
2018	North Carolina	9	69	7.7	1	20
2019	North Carolina	1	0	0.0	0	0
Career		95	279	2.9	6	59

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	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2017	North Carolina	21	LB	Fr.
2018	North Carolina	21	LB	So.
2019	North Carolina	21	LB	Jr.
2020	North Carolina	21	LB	Sr.	6′2″	225

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

2020 North Carolina 11 games, 91 tackles, 6 sacks, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 12	vs.Syracuse	W 31–⁠6	9	4	2.5	2	0	0
Oct 3	atBoston College	W 26–⁠22	8	8	1	1	0	1
Oct 10	vs.Virginia Tech	W 56–⁠45	4	0	0	0	0	0
Oct 17	atFlorida State	L 28–⁠31	3	1	0	0	0	0
Oct 24	vs.NC State	W 48–⁠21	8	6	1	1	1	0
Oct 31	atVirginia	L 41–⁠44	10	5	0	0	0	0
Nov 7	atDuke	W 56–⁠24	12	5	0	0	0	0
Nov 14	vs.Wake Forest	W 59–⁠53	14	7	2	1	0	0
Nov 27	vs.Notre Dame	L 17–⁠31	7	4	1	1	0	0
Dec 5	vs.Western Carolina	W 49–⁠9	6	3	0	0	0	0
Dec 12	atMiami	W 62–⁠26	10	6	0	0	0	2

2019 North Carolina 13 games, 115 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Aug 31	vs.South Carolina	W 24–⁠20	12	3	1	1	0	1
Sep 7	vs.Miami	W 28–⁠25	5	3	0	0	0	0
Sep 13	atWake Forest	L 18–⁠24	8	3	1	0	0	0
Sep 21	vs.App State	L 31–⁠34	2	1	1	1	0	0
Sep 28	vs.Clemson	L 20–⁠21	7	3	2	1	0	2
Oct 5	atGeorgia Tech	W 38–⁠22	12	7	0.5	0	0	0
Oct 19	atVirginia Tech	L 41–⁠43	17	7	2	1	0	0
Oct 26	vs.Duke	W 20–⁠17	12	9	1	1	1	0
Nov 2	vs.Virginia	L 31–⁠38	15	13	2	0	0	0
Nov 14	atPittsburgh	L 27–⁠34	5	5	1	0	0	0
Nov 23	vs.Mercer	W 56–⁠7	5	3	0	0	0	0
Nov 30	atNC State	W 41–⁠10	10	5	2	1	0	0
Dec 27 ✦	vs.Temple	W 55–⁠13	5	4	1.5	0.5	0	0

2018 North Carolina 1 game, 69 rushing yards, 1 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 27	atMiami	L 10–⁠47	–	–	–	–	–	–

2017 North Carolina 9 games, 1,342 passing yards, 8 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 2	vs.California	L 30–⁠35	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sep 9	vs.Louisville	L 35–⁠47	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sep 16	atOld Dominion	W 53–⁠23	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sep 23	vs.Duke	L 17–⁠27	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sep 30	atGeorgia Tech	L 7–⁠33	–	–	–	–	–	–
Oct 7	vs.Notre Dame	L 10–⁠33	1	1	0	0	0	0
Oct 21	atVirginia Tech	L 7–⁠59	–	–	–	–	–	–
Oct 28	vs.Miami	L 19–⁠24	–	–	–	–	–	–
Nov 18	vs.Western Carolina	W 65–⁠10	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Before the draft

Played in the 2021 Senior Bowl (National team, won 27–⁠24).

Drill	Pro day 2021	Combine or pro day 2021
Height	6′2⅛″^W
Weight	229 lb^W
Arm length	30¼″^W
Hand size	9⅝″^W
Wingspan	75½″^W
40-yard dash	4.59 s^W
10-yard split	1.62 s^W
Vertical jump	31½″^W
Broad jump		10′5″
Bench press	25 reps^W
3-cone drill	7.04 s^W
20-yard shuttle	4.18 s^W

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

5 seasons, 32 games with a stat; latest team: Seattle Seahawks.

Season	Team	G	Tkl
2022	New York Jets	1	1
2023	New York Jets	5	7
2024	New York Jets	14	27
2025	Seattle Seahawks	10	11
2026 (so far)	Seattle Seahawks	2	2
NFL career		32	48

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

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At a glance

Career highs